HMS Imperieuse

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Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Imperiuse, a name retained from the French.

• The first Imperieuse was a French sailing frigate captured in 1793, taken into the RN as a 40-gun fifth-rate, renamed Unite in 1803, in harbour service from 1832, and broken up in 1858.

• The second Imperieuse was a wooden screw frigate in use from 1852 to 1867.

• The third Imperieuse was an armoured cruiser launched in 1883 and sold 1913.

The name Imperieuse was also a later name of several other ships, and used of a training establishment in 1944 that consisted of the battleships Resolution and Revenge.

 

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