HMS Brilliant

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Brilliant.

• Template:HMS was a prize sloop taken in 1696 and sold in 1698.
• Template:HMS was a sloop in service in 1729.
• Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1757 and sold in 1776.
• Template:HMS was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1779 and broken up in 1811.
• HMS Brilliant was the former name of Template:HMS, renamed in 1813 and broken up in 1817.
• Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1814, renamed Briton in 1889 and sold in 1908.<ref>HMS Brilliant moored in Inverness Muirton basin around the 1870s, two other pictures on Am Baile</ref>
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass light cruiser launched in 1891 and sunk in 1918 as a blockship at Ostend.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass2 launched in 1930. She served in World War II and was sold in 1947.
• Template:HMS was a Type 22 frigate launched in 1978. She took part in the Falklands War. She was sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1996 and renamed Dodsworth

Battle honours

• Belgian Coast 1914
• Zeebrugge 1918
• English Channel 1940–43
• Atlantic 1941–43
• North Africa 1942–43
• Falklands War 1982
• Kuwait 1991

See also

• Brilliant (disambiguation)

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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