Individual Ships Index
Hub
This subdomain gives individual named warships the biographical treatment normally reserved for people — tracing a vessel from her keel-laying through her fitting out, her commissions and commanders, the battles she fought, the damage she sustained and the repairs she received, and her eventual fate: hulked, broken up, scuttled, lost in action, or preserved as a museum ship. The scope is universal across eras and navies — Athenian triremes, Roman quinqueremes, Byzantine imperial dromons, the great Mediterranean galleys, Iberian carracks and galleons, Dutch and English Indiamen, the wooden ships-of-the-line of the age of sail, ironclad steamers, dreadnoughts, the aircraft carriers of the twentieth century, modern nuclear submarines and missile cruisers. The asymmetry between ship lifespans (a well-built wooden first-rate could serve sixty years; a modern carrier longer still) and the careers of the officers who commanded them makes individual ship notes essential cross-referencing infrastructure across every era. HMS Victory is the natural anchor for the current vault’s Age of Sail focus — one of many possible anchor vessels across the subdomain’s full scope. Adjacent to MOC_Conflicts, MOC_Military_Forces, MOC_Geography_Places (ports infrastructure), and MOC_Weapons_Technology.
Primary Notes
Royal Navy — First Rate (current vault focus)
- HMS Victory — Overview
- HMS Victory — Never Fired in Anger After Trafalgar — end of fighting service only; overflow
- HMS Royal Sovereign — Overview — Collingwood’s flagship at Trafalgar
- Royal Sovereign Construction — American War Delay — 1774 lay-down / 4 September 1786 launch; overflow
- Royal Sovereign 1701 Predecessor — 1701 namesake and 1841 breaking-up only; overflow
Royal Navy — Second Rate
- HMS St George — 98-gun Second Rate — Hardy flag-captain; King’s Deep, 1 April 1801
- HMS Téméraire — Trafalgar 98-gun Second Rate — British 98-gun namesake of Turner’s painting
Royal Navy — Third Rate
- HMS Captain — 74-gun Third Rate — Nelson’s ship at Cape St Vincent 1797
- HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate — Nelson’s inshore flag at Copenhagen 1801
- HMS Agamemnon — Overview — Nelson’s old 64; aground at Copenhagen
- Agamemnon Appointment — 30 January 1793 — 30 January 1793 appointment only; overflow
- Agamemnon 345 Men — Sardinia Chase — 345 men / three-hour chase only; overflow
- Raisonnable — Nelson Entry 1771 — 64 guns / 1771 entry only; overflow
- HMS Triumph — Guard-Ship after Falklands — 74 / Thames guard-ship only; overflow
- HMS Bellona — 74-gun Third Rate — Copenhagen grounding, 2 April 1801; overflow
- HMS Russell — 74-gun Third Rate — Copenhagen grounding, 2 April 1801; overflow
- HMS Conqueror — Overview — boarding party took Villeneuve’s surrender
- HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate — Foley inside passage, Nile 1 August 1798
- HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship — Nelson’s 74 at the Nile
- Vanguard Foremast — Gulf of Lyons — Gulf of Lyons gale / foremast only; overflow
- Syracuse Supply — Vanguard Pursuit — timely resupply that let pursuit restart; overflow
- Vanguard Four-Day Refit — St Pietro — four-day refit only; overflow
- HMS Culloden — 74-gun Third Rate — Troubridge; aground entering Aboukir, 1 August 1798
- HMS Excellent — 74-gun Third Rate — Collingwood’s 74 at Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797
- HMS Majestic — 74-gun Third Rate — Westcott; Nile, 1 August 1798
- HMS Theseus — Overview — Tenerife amputation, 24 July 1797
- HMS Foudroyant — 80-gun Third Rate — Hardy flag-captain posting
Royal Navy — Fourth Rate (Nile)
- HMS Leander — 50-gun Fourth Rate — with Nelson’s thirteen 74s, 1 August 1798
Royal Navy — Unrated
- HMS Mutine — Captured French Brig — Hardy; Nile brig, 1 August 1798
- HMS Helena — Brig — Hardy captain’s servant, November 1781; brig only
- Glasgow Fire — Montego Bay — 20 guns / rum-hold fire only; overflow
Royal Navy — Rate unknown
- HMS Ville de Paris — Collingwood Death Ship — death ship only; no rate
- HMS Amphion — Hardy Flag-Captain — flag-captain posting only; no rate
- Albemarle at Elsinore — Elsinore reply only; overflow
- Albemarle Masts Too Long — overset masts only; overflow
- HMS Lion — Cornwallis Passage — passage / Bath only; no rate
- HMS Dolphin — Invalided from India — invaliding only; no rate
- HMS London — Parker Distant Flagship — posting / distance only; no rate
- HMS Ramillies — Hardy War of 1812 — posting / war only; no rate
Royal Navy — Frigate
- HMS Minerve — Frigate — Hardy; August 1796 and 11 February 1797
- Lowestoffe Waterlogged Prize — water-logged boarding only; overflow
- Boreas Nore Slop Ship — Nore slop / receiving months only; overflow
- HMS Euryalus — Frigate — Collingwood flag-shift and Royal Sovereign tow
- West Country Wagon — Royal Sovereign Nickname — sluggish-sailer nickname before 1805 coppering
French Navy — First Rate (Nile)
- L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship — Brueys’s flag; exploded 1 August 1798
French Navy — Third Rate (Nile)
- Franklin — French 80-gun Ship — Nile line, 1 August 1798
- Tonnant — French 80-gun Ship — Nile line, 1 August 1798
- Guillaume Tell — French 80-gun Ship — Villeneuve; escaped 2 August 1798
- Spartiate — French Ship of the Line — langridge that wounded Nelson, 1 August 1798
- Généreux — French Ship of the Line — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
French Navy — Frigates (Nile)
- Diane — French Frigate — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
- Justice — French Frigate — escaped Aboukir, 2 August 1798
- Muiron — French Frigate — Bonaparte’s August 1799 passage
French Navy — Third Rate (Trafalgar)
- Bucentaure — Overview — Villeneuve’s flagship at Trafalgar 1805
- Redoutable — French 74-gun Ship — alongside Victory when Nelson was shot
Spanish Navy — First Rate
- Santísima Trinidad — Spanish First Rate — four-decker at St Vincent and Trafalgar
- San José — Spanish 112-gun First Rate — Patent Bridge prize, 14 February 1797
- Salvador del Mundo — Spanish 112-gun First Rate — struck to Excellent, 14 February 1797
- Príncipe de Asturias — Spanish First Rate — Gravina’s reported Trafalgar flag
- Santa Ana — Spanish 112-gun First Rate — 112-gun; Trafalgar duel with Royal Sovereign only
Spanish Navy — Third Rate
- San Nicolás — Spanish 84-gun Third Rate — stern-gallery boarding, 14 February 1797
- San Ysidro — Spanish 74-gun Third Rate — struck to Excellent, 14 February 1797
- San Rafael — Spanish 80 — Finisterre prize, 22 July 1805
- Firme — Spanish 74 — Finisterre prize, 22 July 1805
Danish Navy — Copenhagen
- Holsteen — Danish 60 — named Copenhagen prize; 60 only
- Holstein — Later Name of Holsteen — later name only; overflow
Roadmap
(planned notes as red-links — add as research identifies gaps)
Methodology
- Individual Ship Biographies — Why They Matter as Research Infrastructure
- Naming Conventions — How Navies Name Their Ships and Why
Ancient and Classical
- The Athenian Trireme as Class and Individual — Surviving Names from the Ship Lists
- Roman Imperial Fleet — Named Vessels from Misenum and Ravenna
Medieval
- Byzantine Dromons — Surviving Names and the Strategic Fleet
- The Mary Rose — Tudor Reconstruction and Underwater Archaeology
- Venetian Bucintoro — The Ducal State Ship and Its Lineage
Early Modern
- San Martín — Spanish Armada Flagship 1588
- The Vasa 1628 — Swedish Disaster and Modern Preservation
- HMS Sovereign of the Seas 1637 — Stuart Naval Prestige
- HMS Royal Charles — Captured by the Dutch at the Medway 1667
Age of Sail (current vault focus)
- HMS Victory — Ship’s History from Launch to Preservation
- HMS Bellerophon — From the Nile to Napoleon’s Surrender
- HMS Elephant — Nelson’s Flagship at Copenhagen
- HMS Agamemnon — Nelson’s Favourite Command
- Santísima Trinidad — Spanish Four-Decker and Her Long Career
Industrial Age (1850–1914)
- HMS Warrior 1860 — The First Ocean-Going Iron-Hulled Armoured Warship
- CSS Virginia and USS Monitor — The Ironclad Duel of 1862
- HMS Dreadnought 1906 — The All-Big-Gun Battleship Revolution
Twentieth Century
- HMS Hood — Loss to Bismarck 1941
- USS Enterprise CV-6 — Most Decorated US Warship of the Second World War
- Yamato — Japan’s Super-Battleship and Symbol of Late-War Defeat
- USS Nautilus SSN-571 — First Nuclear Submarine
Cross-Cutting
- See also: MOC_Ships_Maritime
- See also: _Home