# HMS Rodney

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Six ships of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) have been named '''HMS ''Rodney''''', of which at least the last five were named after the [Georgian](/source/Georgian_Era) Admiral [George, Lord Rodney](/source/George_Brydges_Rodney). A seventh was planned but never completed:
* {{HMS|Rodney|1759}} was a 4-gun [cutter](/source/Cutter_(ship)) in use in 1759.
* {{HMS|Rodney|1781}} was a 16-gun vessel, possibly a [brig-sloop](/source/brig-sloop), purchased in 1780, probably in the Caribbean, and in service in 1781. The French ''Rohan-Soubise'' captured her in 1782 at [Demerara](/source/Demerara). In June 1783 she sailed for [St. Pierre and Miquelon](/source/St._Pierre_and_Miquelon). She was struck from the lists at Rochefort in December, and from the Navy lists in 1784.<ref>Demerliac (1996), p.76, #488.</ref>
* {{HMS|Rodney|1809}} was a 74-gun [third rate](/source/third_rate) launched in 1809, [razee](/source/razee)d to 50 guns and renamed ''Greenwich'' in 1827, and sold in 1836.
* {{HMS|Rodney|1833}} was a 90-gun [second rate](/source/second_rate) launched in 1833, converted to screw propulsion and rearmed with 70 guns in 1860, and broken up in 1884.
* {{HMS|Rodney|1884}} was an {{sclass2|Admiral|battleship|2}} launched in 1884 and sold in 1909.
* HMS ''Rodney'' (1916) was to have been an {{sclass2|Admiral|battlecruiser|2}}. She was ordered in April 1916, but construction was suspended in March 1917 and cancelled in October 1918.
* {{HMS|Rodney|29}} was a {{sclass|Nelson|battleship|2}} launched in 1925 and broken up in 1948.

==Battle honours==
* [Quebec](/source/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham) 1759
* [Syria](/source/Egyptian%E2%80%93Ottoman_War_(1839%E2%80%931841)) 1840
* [Crimea](/source/Crimean_War) 1854–55
* [Norway](/source/Norwegian_Campaign) 1940
* [Atlantic](/source/Battle_of_the_Atlantic) 1940–41
* [''Bismarck''](/source/Last_battle_of_the_battleship_Bismarck) 1941
* [Malta Convoys](/source/Malta_convoys) 1941–42
* [North Africa](/source/North_African_Campaign) 1942–43
* [Sicily](/source/Allied_invasion_of_Sicily) 1943
* [Salerno](/source/Operation_Avalanche) 1943
* [Mediterranean](/source/Mediterranean_and_Middle_East_theatre_of_World_War_II) 1943
* English Channel 1944
* [Normandy](/source/Invasion_of_Normandy) 1944
* [Arctic](/source/Arctic_convoys_of_World_War_II) 1944

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}}
* Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). {{ISBN|2-906381-23-3}}

{{Ship index}}
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Category:Royal Navy ship names

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