HMS Africa

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Africa, after the continent of Africa. Two others were planned:

• Template:HMS was a 46-gun ship in service from 1694 to 1696.
• Template:HMS was a 64-gun third-rate launched in 1761 and sold in 1774.
• Template:HMS was a 64-gun third-rate launched in 1781. She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and was broken up in 1814.
• HMS Africa was a prison ship, launched in 1803 as the 36-gun fifth rate Template:HMS. She became a prison ship in 1826, was renamed HMS Africa in 1859 and was sold in 1860.
• Template:HMS was a wooden-hulled screw sloop launched in 1862 and sold to China later that year. She was renamed China and was sold in 1865.
• HMS Africa was to have been a Drake-class cruiser but she was renamed Template:HMS in 1899, before being launched in 1901.
• Template:HMS was a King Edward VII-class battleship launched in 1905 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Africa was to have been an Audacious-class aircraft carrier. She was ordered in 1943, but was later reordered as a Malta-class carrier, before being cancelled in 1945.
• There was also an Irish hired armed cutter Africa, of 7080/94 tons burthen (bm), in Royal Navy service from 12 December 1803 to 12 January 1810.<ref>Winfield (2008), p.393.</ref>

See also

• Template:HMS

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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