Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after the Prince of Wales.
- The first Prince of Wales was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1765 and broken up 1783.
- The second Prince of Wales was a 90-gun second-rate launched in 1794 and broken up in 1822.
- The third Prince of Wales was a 38-gun transport purchased in 1795, and still on the records in 1801, but little more is known.
- The fourth Prince of Wales was a 14-gun Indian sloop of 248 tons, launched at the Bombay Dockyard in 1805, but whose fate is unknown.
- The fifth Prince of Wales was a 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate, converted to a training ship and renamed Britannia in 1869, sold in 1914.
- The sixth Prince of Wales was a battleship launched in 1902 and sold for scrap in 1921.
- The seventh Prince of Wales was a battleship launched in 1939 and sunk in combat 1941.
- The eighth Prince of Wales will be the second of the Royal Navy's two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers and is scheduled to enter service in 2016.
See also
- Prince of Wales - a British convict transport of the First Fleet in 1787.
References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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