# HMS Worcester

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Eight ships and a training establishment of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) have borne the name '''HMS ''Worcester''''', after the English city of [Worcester](/source/Worcester%2C_England):

* {{ship|English ship|Worcester|1651}} was a 48-gun ship launched in 1651. She was renamed HMS ''Dunkirk'' in 1660.
* {{HMS|Worcester|1698}} was a 50-gun ship launched in 1698. She was rebuilt in 1714 and broken up in 1744.
* {{HMS|Worcester|1735}} was a 60-gun [fourth rate](/source/fourth_rate) launched in 1735 and broken up by 1765.
* {{HMS|Worcester|1769}} was a 64-gun [third rate](/source/third_rate) launched in 1769. She was hulked in 1788 and broken up in 1816.
* {{HMS|Worcester|1843}} was a 52-gun fourth rate launched in 1843 after spending 23 years on the stocks. She was lent as a [training ship](/source/training_ship) in 1862 and broken up in 1885.
* {{HMS|Worcester|D96}}, the eighth to bear the name, was a [W-class](/source/V_and_W-class_destroyer) [destroyer](/source/destroyer) launched in 1919.  She was damaged by a [mine](/source/naval_mine) in 1943 and not repaired. Instead she became an accommodation ship in 1944 and was renamed HMS ''Yeoman'' in 1945. She was sold in 1946 and broken up in 1947.
* HMS ''Worcester'' was also the name given to the [Thames Nautical Training College](/source/Thames_Nautical_Training_College). It was established in 1862 aboard the fifth HMS ''Worcester''. The name HMS ''Worcester'' ceased to be associated with the establishment after 1968. Several ships have been named or renamed HMS ''Worcester'' whilst serving with the establishment:
** Its first, the fifth-named {{HMS|Worcester|1843}}, served as the college from 1862 to 1876.
** Its second, the sixth-named ''HMS Worcester'', was the ex-{{HMS|Frederick William|1860}} and served the college from 1876 to 1948.
** Its third, the seventh-named ''HMS Worcester'', was the ex-{{HMS|Exmouth|1905}} and served the college from 1945 to 1968.

==Battle honours==
Ships of the Royal Navy named ''Worcester'' have earned the following [battle honour](/source/battle_honour)s;
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*[Dover](/source/Battle_of_Dover_(1652)), 1652
*[Portland](/source/Battle_of_Portland), 1653
*[Gabbard](/source/Battle_of_the_Gabbard), 1653
*[Scheveningen](/source/Battle_of_Scheveningen), 1653
*[Porto Farina](/source/Porto_Farina), 1653
*[Santa Cruz](/source/Battle_of_Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(1657)), 1657
*[Porto Bello](/source/Battle_of_Porto_Bello_(1739)), 1739
*[Cartagena](/source/Battle_of_Cartagena_de_Indias), 1741
*[Ushant](/source/Battle_of_Ushant_(1778)), 1778
*[Sadras](/source/Battle_of_Sadras), 1782
*[Providien](/source/Battle_of_Providien), 1782
*[Negapatam](/source/Battle_of_Negapatam_(1782)), 1782
*[Trincomalee](/source/Battle_of_Trincomalee), 1782
*[Cuddalore](/source/Battle_of_Cuddalore_(1783)), 1783
*[Dunkirk](/source/Evacuation_of_Dunkirk), 1940
*[Atlantic](/source/Battle_of_the_Atlantic), 1940
*North Sea, 1942–1943
*Dover Straits, 1942
*English Channel, 1942
*[Arctic](/source/Arctic_convoys_of_World_War_II), 1943
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==See also==
* {{HMS|Worcester Prize}}, a 14-gun [sixth rate](/source/sixth_rate) captured from the French in 1705 by {{HMS|Worcester|1698|6}}. She was briefly in French hands in 1708, but was recaptured, only to be recaptured for the final time by the French later that year.
* {{HMS|Worcestershire}}, an [armed merchant cruiser](/source/armed_merchant_cruiser) and [landing ship, infantry](/source/landing_ship%2C_infantry) during the Second World War

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