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Royal Navy
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HMS
Ajax
after the Greek hero
Ajax
:
HMS
Ajax
(1767)
was a 74-gun
third-rate
ship of the line
launched in 1767 and sold in 1785.
HMS
Ajax
(1798)
was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1798. She fought at the
Battle of Trafalgar
in 1805 and was burned by accident in 1807.
HMS
Ajax
(1809)
was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1846 and broken up in 1864.
HMS
Ajax
was a 78-gun third rate launched in 1835 as
HMS
Vanguard
. She was renamed HMS
Ajax
in 1867 and was broken up in 1875.
HMS
Ajax
(1880)
was an
Ajax
-class
ironclad
battleship
launched in 1880 and sold in 1904.
HMS
Ajax
(1912)
was a
King George V
-class
battleship launched in 1912 and broken up in 1926.
HMS
Ajax
(
22
)
was a
Leander
-class
light cruiser
launched in 1934. She took part in the
Battle of the River Plate
and was broken up in 1949.
HMS
Ajax
(F114)
was a
Leander
-class
frigate
launched in 1962 and broken up in 1988.
HMS
Ajax
(851F)
was an
Admiralty
barge
built in 1956. She was moored at Jupiter Point on the
Lynher River
,
Plymouth
for seamanship training by
HMS
Raleigh
from 1987 to 2008.
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Battle Honours
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St. Vincent
1780
St Kitts
1782
The Saints
1782
Egypt
1801
Trafalgar
1805
San Sebastian
1813
Baltic
1854–55
Jutland
1916
River Plate
1939
Mediterranean
1940–41
Matapan
1941
Greece
1941
Crete
1941
Malta Convoys
1941
Aegean
1944
Normandy
1944
South France
1944
See also
[
edit
]
Ajax
(ship)
Citations
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]
^
"HMS AJAX"
.
www.hmsajax.org
. Retrieved
10 July
2016
.
References
[
edit
]
Colledge, J. J.
; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
(Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8
.
List of ships with the same or similar names
This article includes a
list of ships
with the same or similar names. If an
internal link
for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
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