HMS Ramillies
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Several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Ramillies after the battle of Ramillies:
- Ramillies, launched 1749 was a 82-gun second-rate. In 1760 she was returning to Plymouth before an approaching gale when a combination of poor piloting and inadequate ship handling led to the ship's piling up on the rocks off Bolt Head on the evening of February 15. Only 26 of the 725 crew survived.
- Ramillies, launched in 1763, 74 guns, sank in a storm in 1782 as part of Admiral Thomas Graves 's Fleet.
- Ramillies, 3rd rate, 74 guns. 1670 tons as built. 170½ ft x 48½ ft. Built by Randall of Rotherhithe in 1785. Into harbour service in 1831. Broken up at Deptford in 1850. Fought the French in the Caribbean (1800) and the Americans in 1812.
- HMS Ramillies (1893), launched 1893, scrapped in 1913, was a Royal Sovereign class battleship.
- Ramillies, launched 1916, was a Revenge-class battleship scrapped in 1948.
- Ramillies was intended as the name of the fifth Resolution class submarine, but this vessel was cancelled. The name has not been used since.
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