HMS Ark Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy. She was the third and final vessel of Invincible-class. She was built by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne and launched by them in 1981. Ark Royal was named by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

HMS Assistance

HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Ashanti people, an ethnic group located in Ghana. The frigate was sunk as a target in 1988.Ashanti was built by Yarrow, of Scotstoun, at a cost of £5,315,000 and was the first commissioned Royal Navy warship to be equipped with combined steam and gas (COSAG) engines. She was launched on 9 March 1959 and commissioned on 23 November 1961.

HMS Armada (1810)

*3 × single 3 inch/50 AA guns
*2 × twin 40 mm guns
*9 × single 20 mm
*1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
*8 × Y gun depth charge projectors
*2 × depth charge racks

HMS Ariadne (M01)

United Kingdom

HMS Ariadne

HMS Armada

Damaged on 4 August 1943 and written off as a constructive total loss

Sails

*3 × Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS
*2 × GAM-B01 20 mm guns

HMS Astraea

Jason
HMS Argonaut (1782)

* pp,
* oa

*3 × Parsons steam turbines
*3 × Yarrow boilers
*3 × shafts

HMS Assurance was a 32-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, built by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1646. The term 'frigate' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction, rather than a role which did not develop until the following century.Samuel Pepys states in his diary that Assurance sank near Woolwich during a storm in December 1660, with the loss of twenty men. He visited the site a few days later. The ship was subsequently refloated by 17 December.In August 1666, Assurance participated in the raid on a large Dutch merchant fleet in the Vlie estuary that became known as Holmes's Bonfire. By 1667, Assurance's armament had been increased to 40 guns.Assurance was sold out of the navy in 1698.

Artemis

HMS Asheldham was one of 93 ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers.Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Asheldham in Essex.HMS Asheldham (Pennant number M2604) was a member of the first series of Ham-class minesweepers, with composite wood and aluminium construction.

HMS Ascania (F68)

August 1944

HMS Argo (1833)

*Surfaced: 7,000 to
*Submerged: 7,400 to

Renamed HMS Artifex in November 1942

HMS Arrow was a sloop in the Royal Navy that the Admiralty purchased in 1796. during the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in many actions, including one that resulted in her crew qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal. On 3 February 1805 she and Acheron were escorting a convoy from Malta to England when they encountered two French frigates. Arrow and Acheron were able to save the majority of the vessels of the convoy by their resistance before they were compelled to strike.

*Pennant number:
*August 1938 - L51
*January 1939 - F51
*Autumn 1940 - G51

*2,650 tons
*4,000 tons

April 1823

HMS Argonaut (F56) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company of Hebburn. She was launched on 8 February 1966 and commissioned on 17 August 1967. On 31 March 1993, Argonaut was decommissioned. She was broken up a few years later.

HMS Assistance was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at a private yard on the River Medway to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 22 December 1747.Assistance served until 1773, when she was sold out of the navy.

HMS Artful is the third Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the British Royal Navy. She is the second submarine of the Royal Navy to bear this name. Artful was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine (now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions) on 17 March 1997, and was constructed at Barrow in Furness. She was named on 20 September 2013, was rolled out of the shipyard construction hall on 16 May 2014, and was due to start sea trials in early 2015. Artful made her first successful basin dive in October 2014, and sailed on 13 August 2015 for sea trials. Artful was handed over the Royal Navy on 14 December 2015, and commissioned on 18 March 2016.

March 1771

* surfaced
* submerged

Burnt in March 1793

HMS Arun (1903)

HMS Argus

Rolls-Royce PWR 2 reactor, MTU 600 kilowatt diesel generators

HMS Ariadne (M65)

HMS Astraea was an Astraea-class second class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built towards the end of the nineteenth century, and survived to serve in the First World War.

Teak-built barque

HMS Artemis (P449)

title

HMS Arno

HMS Ashanti

HMS Arno was a unique destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service and was lost during First World War. She was under construction in Genoa, Italy for the friendly Portuguese Navy as Liz in 1914 when she was bought by the Royal Navy for service in the Mediterranean.She had two funnels and masts and four QF 12-pounder guns, shipped sided on the forecastle, behind the second funnel and on the quarterdeck. Although much smaller and slower than her British contemporaries, she was soundly built and had a high freeboard and tall bridge, making her a useful vessel. She was lost off the Dardanelles after a collision with the Acorn- / H-class destroyer Hope on 23 March 1918.

HMS Atherstone

* 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun
* 2 x single 20mm AA guns

HMS Helena in March 1797

* 18 × 32-pounder carronades
* 2 × 9-pounder cannon

HMS Astraea (1893)

Scrapped in 1995

*British service:20 × 9-pounder guns
*French service:2 x 4-pounder + 4 x 3-pounder guns added to the galliards

*SS Arpha (1938–39)

September 1845

HMS Arrow was a sloop in the Royal Navy that the Admiralty purchased in 1796. during the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in many actions, including one that resulted in her crew qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal. On 3 February 1805 she and Acheron were escorting a convoy from Malta to England when they encountered two French frigates. Arrow and Acheron were able to save the majority of the vessels of the convoy by their resistance before they were compelled to strike. Arrow sank almost immediately after surrendering, and Acheron was so badly damaged that the French burnt her.

HMS Ariadne was a 20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate post ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s.

HMS Assistance was an Arctic discovery barque of the Royal Navy, and the sixth vessel to carry the name. She began her life in 1835 as an Indian-built merchant vessel, was purchased in 1850 and participated in two Arctic expeditions before being abandoned in the ice in 1854.

Transferred to United Kingdom 24 November 1943

January 1901

Peter Pett I, Deptford

36 m

HMS Arrow

HMS Argo (1758)

HMS Argyll (1722)

Returned to Clan Line, 1946

*4 × shafts
*4 × Parsons steam turbines

* standard
* full load

Sold for scrap 1957

*4 × Yarrow type water tube boiler
*2 × Vertical Triple Expansion steam engines driving 2 shafts producing

RMS Aurania

HMS Argus (I49)

W Denny, Dumbarton

HMS Ark Royal (1587)

Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

The third and current HMS Argyll is a Type 23 'Duke' Class frigate. She is currently the oldest serving Type 23 frigate in the Royal Navy. Like all of her class she is named for a British dukedom, in this case that of Argyll. Argyll will be the first Type 23 to be fitted with the new Sea Ceptor missile system.

On a Field barry wavy of six Blue and White a porcupine Gold.

*2 shaft Paxman diesels
*1,100 bhp

*Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
*QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns
*Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Atalante

HMS Assurance

Alexander Stephen and Sons, Glasgow, Scotland

HMS Assurance was a 32-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, built by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1646. The term 'frigate' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction, rather than a role which did not develop until the following century.Samuel Pepys states in his diary that Assurance sank near Woolwich during a storm in December 1660, with the loss of twenty men. He visited the site a few days later.

Kum apim, apim beba':'Kill a thousand, a thousand will come

HMS Argosy

Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Greenock, Scotland

USS Hargood

Sold toThos W Wardof Sheffield on 30 June 1920 for breaking at Hale, North Cornwall

HMS Ariadne was an Abdiel-class minelayer of the Royal Navy.She was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Glasgow, Scotland. She was laid down on 15 November 1941, launched on 16 February 1943 and commissioned on 9 October 1943.

January 1814 by capture

On a Field Green two arrows Gold, feathered Red.

*1 × Westland Wasp helicopter
*From 1980:
*1 × Lynx helicopter

HMS Assurance was a 44-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1747. She was wrecked off The Needles near the Isle of Wight, England in 1753. The ship remained stuck on the rock long enough for the crew and passengers to escape.The shipwreck site identified at the Needles contains the remains of two wrecks, thought to be the Assurance and Pomone. The wrecksite was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 4 April 1974.

Two guns

USS Ascension, 1943

scrapped in June 1965

HMS Atlanta

HMS Ascot

Bagwell, Portsmouth Dockyard

HMS Asheldham (M2604)

*46 guns comprising
*Main deck: 12 × 8in shell + 16 × 32-pounder
*Upper deck: 2 × 68-pounder + 16 × 32-pounder

*UK Official Number 112803
*Code Letters MFCF
*

Celeriter Qerus : 'Swiftly sure'

HMS Atalanta

HMS Argonaut

HMS Arundel

*Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
*Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
*QD: 10 × 4-pounder guns
*Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Ascension (K502) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom that served in the Royal Navy during World War II. She originally was ordered by the United States Navy as the Tacoma-class frigate USS Hargood (PF-74) and was transferred to the Royal Navy prior to completion.

* SeaFox mine disposal system
* Diver-placed explosive charges

HMS Atherstone is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 1 March 1986 and commissioned on 17 January 1987, the tenth ship of her class.The present Atherstone is the third ship to bear the name. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft shipbuilders at Woolston, Southampton. She was launched on 1 March 1986 by Mrs Amy Jarvis, the wife of Mr Pat Jarvis, CB, the Deputy Controller of the Navy at the Ministry of Defence.She was accepted into service on 28 November 1986 and commissioned in Portsmouth in early 1987. The ship has a close association with the town of Atherstone, Warwickshire, and is currently part of the 2nd Mine Countermeasure (MCM) Squadron based at Portsmouth, England.Atherstone has recently returned from the Gulf as part of Operation Telic in the Middle East, in support of Coalition operations to promote and maintain peace in the Persian Gulf. She helped to provide assurance to merchant shipping, by conducting mine-countermeasure surveys in the main shipping routes throughout the region. She is participating in 2014 IMCMEX She returned to port in December 2015.

*2 × BL L/40 Mark VIII guns
*2 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval guns
*2 × torpedo tubes

Wrecked, 1753

December 1978

HMS Asia was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1764 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She participated in the American Revolutionary War and the capture of Martinique in 1794.Sir Thomas Slade designed her as an experimental design, one that proved to be particularly groundbreaking as she was the first true 64. As a result, the Royal Navy ordered no further 60-gun ships but instead commissioned more 64 gun ships. Because these incorporated alterations learned from trials with Asia, for instance subsequent ships were bigger, she was the only ship of her draught (class).

HMS Aspirant (W 134)

Sunk as target 1988

full load

September 1986

July 1776

July 2012

HMS Atherstone (L05)

HMS Atalante (or Atalanta) was an 18-gun Sloop-of-war launched in 1808 and wrecked on 10 November 1813 because of fog off Halifax, Nova Scotia. The ship was under the command of Captain Frederick Hickey and had 133 passengers and crew.

HMS Argonaut was a Dido-class cruiser. During October through November of 1942, HMS Argonaut served as part of Operation "Torch", Allied landings in North Africa. In this time part of Force "H", Gibraltar, commanding officers Vice Admiral Sir E. N. Syfret. Force "H" was a supporting force against German–Italian attacks or French counterattacks. December 1942 part of the new Force "Q" (RAdm. C. H. J. Harcourt) to fight against German–Italian convoys on the Tunisian coast.

HMS Artifex

HMS Arun was a Laird Type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1902–1903 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Arun in southern England she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.

Ariadne

*5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots
*

HMS Arun

HMS Athlete (W 150)

HMS Atalante (1808)

*84 guns:
*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounders, 2 × 68-pounder carronades
*Upper gundeck: 32 × 24-pounders
*Quarterdeck: 6 × 24-pounders, 10 × 32-pounder carronades
*Forecastle: 2 × 24-pounders, 4 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Ariel

*5,600 tons standard
*6,850 tons full load

HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships she was named for an ethnic group, in this case the Ashanti people of the Gold Coast in West Africa. She served in the Second World War and was broken up in 1949. She was the first of two Royal Navy ships to bear the name Ashanti.

HMS Argonaut (61)

HMS Argyll

Broken up, 1865

Atalanta

HMS Artful (S121)

Edward Allin & Thomas Bucknall, Portsmouth Dockyard

Pennant number M65

March 1997

HMS Astarte

Peter Baker, Liverpool

HMS Ashton

HMS Association was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697. She served with distinction at the capture of Gibraltar, and was lost in 1707 by grounding on the Isles of Scilly in the greatest maritime disaster of the age.

HMS Asia

France & US

HMS Ascension (K502)

*6 × bow torpedo tubes
*4 × stern torpedo tubes containing a total of 20 × torpedoes
*26 mines
*1 × main deck gun
*1 × Oerlikon 20 mm AA gun
*3 × .303 cal. machine guns

HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began, and became the first example of what is now the standard pattern of aircraft carrier, with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land. After commissioning, the ship was heavily involved for several years in the development of the optimum design for other aircraft carriers.

HMS Atalante (1797)

HMS Astute

Pennant number F28

Lent to the Continental Navy between October 1780 and June 1781

HMS Ariadne was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1971, was sold to Chile in 1992 and sunk as a target hulk in 2004.

HMS Atherstone (M38)

HMS Arrow (1796)

*685 crew
*366 Fleet Air Arm

Pakistan

HMS Artemis

*2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels
*1,100 bhp

HMS Arno was a unique destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service and was lost during First World War. She was under construction in Genoa, Italy for the friendly Portuguese Navy as Liz in 1914 when she was bought by the Royal Navy for service in the Mediterranean.She had two funnels and masts and four QF 12-pounder guns, shipped sided on the forecastle, behind the second funnel and on the quarterdeck.

*140 tons coal
* at

William Hargood , British naval officer

HMS Ascension

May 1992

Sold August 1802

Scrapped 1955

John Perry & Co, Blackwall Yard

Lady Zambellas

after 1713 rebuild

Brindley, Frindsbury

*Original:
* 16 × QF guns
* 14 × QF 12-pounder (76 mm) guns
* 3 × QF 3-pounder (47 mm) guns
* 2 × 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes
*As Minelayer: 4 × guns, 1 × 12-pounder gun, 354 mines

HMS Assurance was a 44-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1747. She was wrecked off The Needles near the Isle of Wight, England in 1753. The ship remained stuck on the rock long enough for the crew and passengers to escape.The shipwreck site identified at the Needles contains the remains of two wrecks, thought to be the Assurance and Pomone. The wrecksite was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 4 April 1974. The designation lists the date of sinking as 1738, although research by the John Bingeman (licensee from 1978) from the court martial accounts indicates that the wreck occurred in 1753.The wrecksite was identified by an Isle of Wight resident, Derek Williams, who became the first licensee. The wreck site includes cannons and other metallic items from the ship.

HMS Armide (1806)

HMS Argyll (F231)

HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction when the First World War began, and became the first example of what is now the standard pattern of aircraft carrier, with a full-length flight deck that allowed wheeled aircraft to take off and land. After commissioning, the ship was heavily involved for several years in the development of the optimum design for other aircraft carriers. Argus also evaluated various types of arresting gear, general procedures needed to operate a number of aircraft in concert, and fleet tactics. The ship was too top-heavy as originally built and had to be modified to improve her stability in the mid-1920s. She spent one brief deployment on the China Station in the late 1920s before being placed in reserve for budgetary reasons.Argus was recommissioned and partially modernised shortly before the Second World War and served as a training ship for deck-landing practice until June 1940. The following month she made the first of her many ferry trips to the Western Mediterranean to fly off fighters to Malta; she was largely occupied in this task for the next two years. The ship also delivered aircraft to Murmansk in Russia, Takoradi on the Gold Coast, and Reykjavík in Iceland. By 1942, the Royal Navy was very short of aircraft carriers and Argus was pressed into front-line service despite her lack of speed and armament. In June, she participated in Operation Harpoon, providing air cover for the Malta-bound convoy. In November, the ship provided air cover during Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa, and was lightly damaged by a bomb. After returning to the UK for repairs, Argus was used again for deck-landing practice until late September 1944. In December, she became an accommodation ship and was listed for disposal in mid-1946. Argus was sold in late 1946 and scrapped the following year.

Atalante

HMS Armada was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named in honour of the English victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588. Armada was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company on the Tyne. She was launched on 9 December 1943 and commissioned on 2 July 1945.

*80 tons coal
* at

scrapped 1932

*
*3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Scrapped in 1961

HMS Arrow (F173)

broken up 1967

*Participated in:
*Holmes's Bonfire

Athenienne

*50 guns:
*Gundeck: 22 × 24-pounders
*Upper gundeck: 22 × 12-pounders
*Quarterdeck: 4 × 6-pounders
*Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounders

HMS Arno (1915)

HMS Arlanza

*4 × QF Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
*4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk VIII AA guns
*30 depth charges

HMS Ariel (1911)

Devonport

Arpha was a 602 GRT passenger ferry built in 1900 as Canterbury for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. She passed to the Southern Railway on 1 January 1923. She was sold to W E Guinness in 1926 and renamed Arpha. In 1938 she was sold to Sark Motorships Ltd, only to be requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939. Postwar, she was sold to Compania Shell de Venezuela and renamed Coriano. After a further change of ownership she was scrapped in 1955.

Sunk as target in 2003

HMS Ariel was a two funnel, 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. Named after Shakespeare's "airy spirit", or the biblical spirit of the same name, she was the ninth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1897, served at Chatham and Malta, and was wrecked in a storm in 1907.

HMS Athene was a Royal Navy aircraft transport. She was a merchant conversion, requisitioned by the Navy during the Second World War and returned after its end. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the Greek goddess Athene.

HMS Argyll (1904)

HMS Assistance (1713)

Returned to US Navy, transferred toBelgian CongoOtraco, fate unknown

HMS Argus (1917)

*2 × Admiralty ML 8-cylinder diesel engines
*2 × electric motors
*2 shafts

Two 6-pounder guns

HMS Astraea (1781)

Sold March 1867

Diveable wreck

Sold, 1863

September 1969

Triple expansion enginesTwo shafts7,500 ihp

Pennant number D14

KD Sri Perlis

Broken up, 1804

*1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 gun on a P Mark I low angle mount
*5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt L/40 gun on a Mark I* low angle mount
*2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450 mm) torpedoes

HMS Athene

HMS Ariel (1897)

HMS Atalanta (1814)

* Sonar Type 2193

, submerged

sixth-rate frigate

HMS Ark Royal (1608)

HMS Artifex was a repair ship of the Royal Navy from late in the Second World War and into the Cold War. Launched as the Cunard liner RMS Aurania she was requisitioned on the outbreak of war to serve as an armed merchant cruiser. Damaged by a U-boat while sailing with an Atlantic convoy, she was purchased outright and converted to a floating workshop, spending the rest of her life as a support ship for the navy.

Captured September 1814

HMS Aspirant (W134)

PNS Khaibar

after 1687 rebuild

* 8 × 6 inch guns
*2 × 3 inch guns

HMS Atalante was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French Atalante, captured in 1797. She served with the British during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was wrecked in 1807.

Pennant number: M2604 / IMS04

HMS Arlingham

light cruiser

*French service=*120
*When captured: 112
*British service: 90

HMS Asp

HMS Argyll was one of six Devonshire-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet upon completion and was transferred to the 5th Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1909. Two years later, she was detached to escort the royal yacht during King George V's trip to British India.

HMS Ark Royal (1938)

HMS Argus was a Royal Navy ship built in 1904 for the His Majesty's Coast Guard.

Sold, 1908

HMS Ariel was a 20-gun Sphinx-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. The French captured her in 1779, and she served during the American Revolutionary War for them, and later for the Americans, before reverting to French control. as well as the British. Her French crew scuttled Ariel in 1793 to prevent the British from recapturing her.

HMS Arrow was an A-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War before being damaged while fighting a fire on an ammunition ship and written off in 1943.

October 1798

Sold, 1698

Pennant number : 6A

* pp
* oa

HMS Arpha

HMS Association (1697)

Johnson, Deptford

*As built:
*1 × twin 4.5 inch (114 mm) guns
*1 × quadruple Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile launchers
*1 × Limbo anti-submarine mortar
*From 1980:
*4 × Exocet anti-ship missile launchers
*2 × quadruple Seacat anti-aircraft missile launchers
*2 × single 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns
*2 × triple torpedo tubes

Ark Royal

HMS Asheldham

*Ne Obliviscaris
*"Lest We Forget"

*Pennant number: R07
*International Callsign: GCDG

January 1814

HMS Arrow was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, she was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position.

Cammell Laird Shipyard

Type 23 Frigate

vessel

*Passenger ferry
*Steam yacht
*Passenger ferry
*Armed boarding vessel
*Passenger ferry

October 1955

protected cruiser

Scrapped, Arrived atJ Cashmore,Newporton 19 November 1955

*6 × bow torpedo tubes, 4 × 21 in stern torpedo tubes, containing a total of 20 torpedoes
*Mines: 26
*1 × main deck gun, 3 × 0.303 machine gun, 1 × 20 mm AA Oerlikon 20 mm gun

Arrow

HMS Assistance was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched during the American War of Independence and spent most of her career serving in American waters, particularly off Halifax and Newfoundland. Assistance was the flagship of several of the commanders of the station. She was in service At the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, but was wrecked off Dunkirk in 1801.

HMS Assistance (1747)

Conning tower:
Deck:
Engine hatch:

*4 × Thornycroft water tube boilers
*2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines
*2 shafts

Laid up in reserve, 1919

Assistant was a brig of 110 tons burden, armed with four 4-pounders and eight swivel guns, and carrying a complement of twenty-seven.She accompanied HMS Providence (1791) as tender on William Bligh's second breadfruit expedition from August 1791 to August 1793. Her commander was Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock.

Royal Navy

HMS Artois

Robert Fabian, East Cowes

August 1890

Steam turbines

*HMS Arpha (1939–46)

HMS Atherstone is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 1 March 1986 and commissioned on 17 January 1987, the tenth ship of her class.The present Atherstone is the third ship to bear the name. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft shipbuilders at Woolston, Southampton.

SS Argus ; HMS Argon ; SS Peninnis ; SS Riduna

* standard,
* full load

Zeal Does Not Rest

HMS Arlingham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers.The names of these ships were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. This minesweeper was named after Arlingham in Gloucestershire.In 1969, HMS Arlingham was rammed by a Spanish Customs launch near Gibraltar, which was later the subject of a formal complaint.

Pennant number: S121

February 1904

two GM 12-278A Diesel-electric engines
single propeller, 1,500 SHP

* 1 × 30mm DS30M Mk2 gun
* 2 × Miniguns
* 3 × General purpose machine guns

HMS Artful

* 2 shaft Napier Deltic diesel, 3,540 shp

HMS Ark Royal (R07)

*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
*QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
*Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades
*Poop deck: 6 × 18-pounder carronades

Returned to US Navy, transferred to Belgian Congo Otraco, fate unknown

March 1850

minelayer

Full rigged ship

HMS Ark Royal R09

*
*16 Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 6 cylindrical boilers

As a coal hulk, 1836–37

As accommodation ship, December 1944

Original configuration:
:10 x 5.25 in (133 mm) dual purpose guns,
:4 x 20 mm single guns,
:2 x 2 pdr pom-poms quad guns,
:2 x 21 in triple Torpedo Tubes.

1943-1944 configuration:
:8 x 5.25 in guns,
:3 x 2 pdr pom-poms quad guns,
:5 x 20 mm twin guns,
:2 x 21 in triple Torpedo Tubes.

1944-1946 configuration:
:8 x 5.25 in guns,
:3 x 2 pdr pom-poms quad guns,
:6 x 20 mm twin power-operated guns,
:5 x 20 mm single guns,
:5 x 40 mm Boffins twin guns,
:3 x 40 mm Bofors Mk III single guns,
:2 x 21 in triple Torpedo Tubes.

November 1895

HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard.She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino.In 1858 she was converted to serve as a guardship, and in 1908 she was sold out of the navy.

Al Faw 2003

yes

HMS Association

HMS Atalanta was a 14 gun ship sloop of the Swan class, launched on 12 August 1775. She served during both the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary War, and was then renamed HMS Helena in March 1797 before being sold for disposal in 1802.

*2 × triple expansion engines
*2 × shafts

*2 × Shafts
*2 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines

Sank 1 July 1971. Sold to Pounds of Portsmouth for scrap in 1972

HMS Argonaut was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, in Royal Navy service during the French Revolutionary Wars and the American Revolution. Launched in 1779 as the French ship Jason, she was captured by the British in 1782 and commissioned by them in the same year. After active service against the French, she was converted to a hospital ship in 1804 and permanently moored off Chatham Dockyard.Argonaut was removed from navy service in 1828 and broken up in 1831.

HMS Artful (P456), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock and launched 22 May 1944.In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1955 she was the first of her class to be rebuilt and streamlined. In 1966 she completed a refit and recommissioned for service with the Home Fleet. In 1967 she undertook a Home Fleet Squadron tour to the West Indies and later that year attended Portsmouth Navy Days.

Siro

HMS Argonaut was a Dido-class cruiser. During October through November of 1942, HMS Argonaut served as part of Operation "Torch", Allied landings in North Africa. In this time part of Force "H", Gibraltar, commanding officers Vice Admiral Sir E. N. Syfret. Force "H" was a supporting force against German–Italian attacks or French counterattacks. December 1942 part of the new Force "Q" (RAdm. C. H. J. Harcourt) to fight against German–Italian convoys on the Tunisian coast. Part of Force "Q" are the cruisers Aurora, Sirius, Argonaut and the both Australian destroyers Quiberon and Quentin. On 1 December fighting with Italian Escort forces, the Italian convoy lost all four transport ships and the Italian destroyer Folgore. On the following day the German Air Force sunk HMAS Quentin westward of Cap Serrat.On 14 December 1942, Argonaut was heavily damaged by Italian submarine Mocenigo not far from Bone. The ship then went to Algiers for repairs.

HMS Atherstone was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in late 1939 as the first of her class but was found to be unstable, and had to undergo significant modifications before entering service in March 1940.

HMS Argo

Sold to Gibraltar Underwater Contractors 19 September 1978

Pennant number 61

HMS Asia (1824)

*Initially:
*Upper deck : 24 x 32-pounder carronades
*QD: 2 x 32-pounder carronades with two more being added later
*Fc: 2 x 32-pounder carronades
*Later:
*UD: 18 x 32-pounder carronades
*QD: nil
*Fc: 2 x 6-pounder chase guns
*Note: All the carronades were experimental 24cwt carronades

HMS Ashanti L51

*RN:
*1 × 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mark 8 naval gun
*2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
*4 × MM38 Exocet missiles
*1 × quadruple Sea Cat SAMs
*2 × triple ASW torpedo tubes
*2 × Corvus chaff launchers
*1 × Type 182 towed decoy
*Pakistan:
*1 × 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun
*2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
*1 × quadruple Harpoon missile launcher
*1 × Phalanx CIWS
*2 × triple ASW torpedo tubes
*2 × Mark 36 SRBOC chaff launchers
*1 × Type 182 towed decoy

HMS Ariel was an Acheron-class destroyer built in 1911, which served during the First World War and sank in 1918 after striking a mine. Named after Shakespeare's "airy spirit", or the biblical spirit of the same name, she was the tenth and last ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.

HMS Asia (1764)

as built

*Upper deck: 22 × 12-pounders
*Lower deck: 22 × 24-pounders
*Quarter deck: 4 × 6-pounders
*Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounders

*SY Arpha (1926–38)

HMS Atalanta was the American letter of marque schooner Siro, launched in 1812, that the British captured in 1814. There is no evidence that she actually entered into active service with the Royal Navy. She was a merchant brig when the USS Wasp captured her in September 1814 and sent her into Savannah as a prize, where she was condemned and sold.

*CODLAG:
**Four 1510 kW Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators
**Two GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW
**Two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C delivering 23,190 kW

HMS Aspirant (W 134) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

Broken up, 1831

HMS Ark Royale

HMS Astute (P447)

HMS Astraea (or Astrea) was a 32-gun Fifth Rate Active Class frigate of the Royal Navy. Fabian at E. Cowes launched her in 1781, and she saw action in the American War of Independence as well as during the Napoleonic Wars. She is best known for her capture of the larger French frigate Gloire in a battle on 10 April 1795, while under the command of Captain Lord Henry Paulet. She was wrecked on 23 March 1808 off the coast of Anegada in the British Virgin Islands.

HMS Atalante (or Atalanta) was an 18-gun Sloop-of-war launched in 1808 and wrecked on 10 November 1813 because of fog off Halifax, Nova Scotia. The ship was under the command of Captain Frederick Hickey and had 133 passengers and crew. One crew member of the Atalante later reported,"In twelve minutes she was literally torn to pieces; the crew swam to the boats; and to see so many poor souls struggling for life, some naked, others on spares, casks, or anything tenable, was a scene painful beyond description ... To the honour of Captain Hickey, he was the last who left the wreck; his calmness, his humanity, and his courage, during the entire of this awful scene, was super to man: every thing is lost but our lives." (In fact there is an obituary for one crew member reported to have died in the sinking.)A local fishing vessel discovered the passengers in three small vessels stranded in the fog and guided them to safety at Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia. Captain Hickey reported, the "inhabitants of Portuguese cove behaved towards us all with every possible mark of hospitality, kindness, and attention, that humanity could dictate."

*Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
*QD: 4 × 12-pounder guns + 10 × 32-pounder carronades
*Fc: 2 × 12-pounder guns, 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Astute (P447) was an Amphion-class submarine. Her keel was laid down by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in 1944 and commissioned in 1945.In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Astute was scrapped on 1 October 1970 at Dunston on Tyne.

HMS Argyll was one of six Devonshire-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was assigned to the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Channel Fleet upon completion and was transferred to the 5th Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1909. Two years later, she was detached to escort the royal yacht during King George V's trip to British India. Argyll was assigned to the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the reserve Second Fleet in 1913.Upon mobilisation in mid-1914 her squadron was assigned to the Grand Fleet; Argyll did not see combat before she ran aground and was wrecked in October 1915. Her crew were rescued without loss and the wreck was later salvaged before it was demolished. Nonetheless, it remains diveable.

coastguard cutter & fishery protection vessel; later passenger ferry

* p/p
* o/a

Sloop

HMS Athenienne was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was the former Maltese ship San Giovanni, which the French captured on the stocks in 1798 and launched and commissioned as Athénien. The Royal Navy captured her at the surrender of Valletta, on 4 September 1800, and took her into service as Athenienne. She was wrecked near Sicily, with great loss of life, in 1806.

* London
* Cowes
* Guernsey
* Guernsey
* London
* Maracaibo

Pennant number: M38

December 1799

HMS Argyll (1711)

France

HMS Arrogant

*As fitted:16 × 6-pounder guns
*British service: 14 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow chasers

March 1802

Ashanti

HMS Ark Royal (R05)

Broken up at Portsmouth November 1776

*4 × twin QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk XII guns
*1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder (40-mm) anti-aircraft guns
*2 × quadruple QF .5-inch (12.7 mm) Mk III anti-aircraft machineguns
*1 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
*20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers

HMS Atalanta (1775)

HMS Assistance (1687)

HMS Arrowhead (K145)

World War II

HMS Ariadne (F72)

HMS Ariadne was a Diadem-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy, which was launched in 1898, In March 1913, she was converted to a stokers' training ship and in 1917 was converted to a minelayer and assigned to the Nore Command. She was torpedoed and sunk off Beachy Head by the German submarine UC-65 (Otto Steinbrinck) on 26 July 1917.

September 1916

United States

*4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns
*2 × single QF 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns
*2 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
*6 × depth charges, 3 chutes

January 1822

HMS Assurance (1646)

Sold for breaking up, 1965

Sold to the Royal Navy in 1850

HMS Asheldham was one of 93 ships of the Ham class of inshore minesweepers.Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Asheldham in Essex.HMS Asheldham (Pennant number M2604) was a member of the first series of Ham-class minesweepers, with composite wood and aluminium construction. It was built by Philip and Son of Dartmouth, Devon and was completed on 9 September 1953.Asheldham served as part of the 232nd Mine Sweeper Squadron at Harwich in Essex from 1954 to 1956, after which it was placed into reserve. The Ham class had proved too small to carry modern minesweeping equipment and most of the class were withdrawn from use or transferred to secondary roles.The ship was transferred to the Royal Malayan Navy on 1 April 1958, being renamed Sri Perlis. Following transfer, Sri Perlis' 40mm Bofors gun and minesweeping gear was removed and replaced by three 20 mm Oerlikon cannon, although the minesweeping gear was later re-fitted, with the ship retaining a single Oerlikon gun.

HMS Argo was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was one of the Coventry class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade as a development of based on the Lyme, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."Argo was commissioned into the Royal Navy in October 1758, during Britain's Seven Years' War with France and Spain. After receiving stores, guns and crew she was out to sea in late January 1759 under the command of Captain John Tinker, and was assigned to the British squadron blockading the French-held port of Dunkirk. Tinker departed the vessel in July 1759 and was replaced by a more junior officer, Commander Walter Griffith.She took part in the expedition against Manila. In a two-hour action on 31 October 1762, the Argo and Edgar Class fourth-rate 60-gun HMS Panther captured the Santisima Trinidad, a Spanish galleon loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.

HMS Assistance (1725)

William Flanagan, Baltimore

Scotts of Greenock

*14 × 6-pounder guns;
*2 more added ca. 1780

*SS Canterbury
*SY Arpha
*SS Arpha
*HMS Arpha
*SS Coriano

Hobbs & Hellyer at Redbridge

Baboo

Over

HMS Astute (S20)

HMS Artois (1780)

April 1815

o/a

*Two shafts
*Geared turbines
*four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*72,000 shp

July 1781

*4 × 4.5in guns
*1 × 4in gun
*8 × torpedo tubes

*Sold to be broken up for scrap, 16 June 1972.

February 1808

*1 × 4 inch LA, 1 × 4 inch DP
*2 × 2-pounder AA
*12 × 20 mm AA

February 1807

HMS Astrea (1810)

*
* at the paddles

Ariel

*Norway
*Atlantic
*Malta Convoys
*North Africa
*Arctic
*English Channel
*Normandy
*Biscay

HMS Argonaut (F56)

*1 × Lynx HMA8, armed with;
* 4 × Sea Skua anti ship missiles, or
* 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
*or
*1 × Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
* 4 × anti submarine torpedoes

HMS Astrea

HMS Athlete (W150)

after 1725 rebuild

Athénien

*Belt:
*Decks:
*Barbettes:
*Turrets:
*Conning tower:
*Bulkheads:

April

July 1777

HMS Athlete (W 150) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II.

HMS Astraea (1791)

August 1775

*1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I, mounting P Mark I
*3 × QF 12-pounder 8 cwt, mounting G Mark I
*5 × QF 6-pdr naval gun
*2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes

Dover–Calais

Harbour Training Ship 1981

Minelayer, March 1917

HMS Asia (1811)

Full-rigged ship
HMS Assistance (1650)

*South Eastern and Chatham Railway
*Southern Railway
*W E Guinness
*Crete Shipping Co Ltd
*Sark Motorships Ltd
*Royal Navy
*W J Brown
*Shell Company of Venezuela
*Caribbean Petroleum Co
*Shell Caribbean Petroleum Co
*J M Perez Hernandez

triple-expansion reciprocating steam engines, single screw, 1,600 hp

*
*12 × cylindrical Scotch boilers

The Mighty Ark

Original configuration:
:Belt: 3 inch,
:Deck: 1 inch,
:Magazines: 2 inch,
:Bulkheads: 1 inch.

up to 40 carried, single catapult

Pennant number F117

HMS Asia was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 December 1811 at Frindsbury.

HMS Arrogant was an early wood screw frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1848 and sold in 1867. During the period of 1848–1850 she was commanded by Captain Robert FitzRoy.In 1854 the Arrogant was part of the fleet deployed to the Baltic Sea on the outbreak of the Crimean War, and served in that theatre until 1855. On 15 April 1854 the Arrogant was one of a number of Royal Navy ships that captured the Russian brig Patrioten.

July 1697

*Parsons geared turbines
*Four shafts
*Four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*62,000 shp

HMS Ariel (1777)

*(Ashanti: "Kill a thousand, a thousand will come")

armoured cruiser

Scrapped 1851

*Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
*Quarterdeck: 4 × 3-pounder guns
*12 × -pounder swivels

Screw

* forward
* aft

* UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1
* Seagnat
* Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
* Surface Ship Torpedo Defence

San Giovanni

HMS Ashanti (G51)

In excess of

* at surfaced
* at or at submerged

HMS Artifex (F28)

Malaysia

*Letter of marque: 6 x 12-pounder carronades + 4 x 18-pounder columbiads
*At capture: 12 x 9-pounder guns
*As British merchantman: 8 guns

First Major 1999-2001, Second Major 2004-2007

Carried 1000 tons coal

* 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun

HMS Ascot was a Racecourse-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. The Racecourse-class comprised 32 paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops.She was the last ship to be sunk in the First World War on 10 November 1918, the day before the announcement of the armistice. She was torpedoed by UB-67 off the Farne Islands.She lies at a depth of 60 metres, at 55°37′9.24″N 001°29′8.60″W.

HMS Ark Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy. She was the third and final vessel of Invincible-class. She was built by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne and launched by them in 1981. Ark Royal was named by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She followed sister ships HMS Invincible and HMS Illustrious into service in 1985.Affectionately known as The Mighty Ark, she is the fifth Royal Navy ship to have borne the name of the 1587 flagship that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. Originally intended to be named Indomitable to match the rest of the class, this was changed due to the public reaction to the loss of the Ark Royal name after the scrapping of the previous Ark Royal in 1980, after 30 years' service.Slightly larger than her sister ships, and with a steeper ski-jump ramp, Ark Royal carried the STOVL (Short Take Off and Vertical Landing) Harrier Jump Jet aircraft, as well as various helicopters. With a crew complement of over 1,000 sailors and aviators, she saw active service in the 1990s Bosnian War and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.Originally due to be retired in 2016, Ark Royal was instead decommissioned on Friday 11 March 2011, as part of the Navy restructuring portion of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review. After Ark Royal's decommissioning HMS Albion replaced her as the Royal Navy flagship. Ark Royal was sold for scrap to the Turkish company Leyal Ship Recycling and left Portsmouth in May 2013.

*SS Canterbury (1900–26)

* surface, submerged
Ship range=* at surfaced
* at or at submerged

HMS Ark Raleigh (1587)

*British service:140
*French service: 130 and 210

*4,000 nautical miles at 17 knots
*1,200 nautical miles at 30 knots

HMS Assistance (1781)

December 1998

HMS Arrow (H42)

HMS Assistance (1850)

*4 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines providing 97,000 hp
*8 Paxman Valenta diesel generators.

The Crazy A

About 1929

Chile

HMS Astraea (1810)

* at 30 knots
*6,824 km at 16 knots
*1,100 tons fuel oil

fuel oil

Twin screws

Pennant number: F173

*Aden Emergency
*Beira Patrol

Blackburn, Turnchapel

HMS Ark Royal

Bow, McLachlan and Company, Paisley, Scotland

Pennant number: F72

Mrs. A. A. Kirby

HMS Ashanti (F117)

HMS Argo was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was one of the Coventry class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade as a development of based on the Lyme, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."Argo was commissioned into the Royal Navy in October 1758, during Britain's Seven Years' War with France and Spain.

*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*2 shaft Parsons geared turbines,

HMS Ariadne (1898)

*COGOG:
*2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines
*2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines for cruising

HMS Ariadne (1816)

Mrs Amy Jarvis, wife of the then Deputy Controller of the Royal Navy

January 1794

*Pennant number: F231
*International callsign: GACG

Correct term? Refit implies decommissioning?

HMS Armada was a Royal Navy 74-gun third-rate ship of the line. Mrs Pridham, the wife of the Mayor of Plymouth, Mr Joseph Pridham, launched her on 23 March 1810. After a relatively undistinguished career, Armada was sold out of the Navy in 1863 and broken up at Marshall's ship breaking yard in Plymouth. She was the first ship to carry the name.

General Baquedano

HMS Assistance was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Deptford, and launched in 1650. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns.In 1687 Assistance was rebuilt at Deptford as a 48-gun fourth-rate ship of the line. Life aboard her when cruising in the Mediterranean in 1675-6 is described in the diary of Henry Teonge. She was rebuilt for a second time at Deptford in 1699, relaunching as a fourth rate of between 46 and 54 guns. In 1702 she was attached to the squadron of Commodore John Leake for service to Newfoundland at the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession. Leake sent her to destroy the fortifications of the isle of Saint Pierre.Her third rebuild was carried out at Limehouse, from where she was relaunched on 16 February 1713 as a 50-gun fourth rate to the 1706 Establishment. On 21 March 1720 she was ordered to be taken to pieces at Woolwich for what was to be her final rebuild. She relaunched as a 50-gun fourth rate to the 1719 Establishment on 25 November 1725.Assistance was sunk as a breakwater in 1745.

Pennant number: M2603 / IMS03

HMS Assistance was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Deptford, and launched in 1650. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns.In 1687 Assistance was rebuilt at Deptford as a 48-gun fourth-rate ship of the line. Life aboard her when cruising in the Mediterranean in 1675-6 is described in the diary of Henry Teonge.

Broken up, 1949

HMS Arlingham (M2603)

HMS Asperity

HMS Artful is the third Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the British Royal Navy. She is the second submarine of the Royal Navy to bear this name. Artful was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine (now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions) on 17 March 1997, and was constructed at Barrow in Furness. She was named on 20 September 2013, was rolled out of the shipyard construction hall on 16 May 2014, and was due to start sea trials in early 2015.

HMS Armada (D14)

By April 1794

Wrecked on theBell Rock, 28 October 1915

HMS Asia was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1764 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She participated in the American Revolutionary War and the capture of Martinique in 1794.Sir Thomas Slade designed her as an experimental design, one that proved to be particularly groundbreaking as she was the first true 64. As a result, the Royal Navy ordered no further 60-gun ships but instead commissioned more 64 gun ships.

*3 × boilers
*2 × turbines, each
*2 shafts

Unlimited

October 1898

*Inclined compound
*cylindrical return tube

HMS Athenienne (1800)

HMS Artful (S22)

*4 × anti-aircraft (AA) guns
*2 × low-angle 4-inch guns

*South Eastern and Chatham Railway
*Southern Railway
*W E Guinness
*Crete Shipping Co Ltd
*Sark Motorships Ltd
*Royal Navy
*Worms & Co
*Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd
*Caribbean Petroleum Co
*Shell Caribbean Petroleum Co
*J M Perez Hernandez

* East Coast Destroyer Flotilla
* 3rd Destroyer Flotilla
* 5th Destroyer Flotilla
* Assigned E class
* 9th Destroyer Flotilla
* 5th Destroyer Flotilla

Ascension Island

Sunk as breakwater, 1745

HMS Ascot (1916)

HMS Assistant

La Valette
HMS Athenienne

*Kum Apim
*
*Also: Wo kum apim a, apim bз ba

*PG-182
*PF-74

Scrapped in June 2013 Turkey

*4 × single BL 7.5-inch Mk I guns
*6 × single BL 6-inch Mk VII guns
*2 × single 12-pounder 8 cwt guns
*18 × single QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns
*2 × single 18-inch torpedo tubes

Ledger, River Medway

* Flight deck
* Enclosed hangar

HMS Artful (P456)

HMS Assistance (1699)

HMS Arrogant (1848)

HMS Argus (1904)

In reserve between 1946 to 1955

*22 demi-cannons
*30 culverins
*2 x 6-pdrs
*24 sakers
*2 x 3-pdrs

coal

Henry Bird, Rotherhithe

Sold to Chile, 1992

*SS Coriano (1946–55)

HMS Atalanta (1844)

*Cunard
*Cunard White Star Ltd

*Hat Box
*Flatiron

Pennant number: I49

*2 × steam turbines
*2 × shafts

*Flatiron

October 1758
Great Britain

December 1905

after 1699 rebuild

*50 guns:
* Gundeck: 22 × 18-pounders
* Upper gundeck: 22 × 9-pounders
* Quarterdeck: 4 × 6-pounders
* Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounders

Sold, 1773

*Celeriter certus
*

HMS Ashanti (F51)

September 1779

Sank after capture

*Twin 4.5 inch (114 mm) naval guns
*Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
*Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile launcher
*Limbo anti-submarine mortar

HMS Artful (P456), was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock and launched 22 May 1944.In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1955 she was the first of her class to be rebuilt and streamlined. In 1966 she completed a refit and recommissioned for service with the Home Fleet.

HMS Assurance (1747)

*Casemates:
*Deck:

*Hat Box

HMS Asgard

*4 × 4 inch AA guns
*4 × Bofors 40 mm gun
*12 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
*160 Naval mines