HMS Raleigh
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HMS Raleigh is a ship name used by the Royal Navy in honour of Sir Walter Raleigh.
There have been several ships named HMS Raleigh:
- USS Raleigh (1776) was captured in 1778 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Raleigh
- HMS Raleigh (1874) was an unarmoured iron frigate
- HMS Raleigh (1919) was Hawkins-class heavy cruiser commissioned in 1919 and sunk at Point Amour, Labrador in 1922
- HMS Raleigh (shore establishment) is the current basic training establishment of the Royal Navy, in Plymouth.
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