HMS Severn

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Severn after the River Severn:

• The first Template:HMS was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1695, rebuilt in 1739, captured by the French in 1746, and recaptured by the Royal Navy in 1747 but not taken back into service.
• The second Template:HMS was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1747 and sold in 1759.
• The next HMS Severn was to have been a 38-gun fifth rate. She was renamed Template:HMS before her launch.
• The third Template:HMS was a 44-gun Template:Sclass fifth rate launched in 1786 and wrecked in 1804.
• The fourth Template:HMS was a 40-gun Template:Sclass fourth rate launched in 1813 and sold in 1825.
• The next HMS Severn was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate. She was ordered in 1825 but cancelled in 1831.
• The fifth Template:HMS was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1856, one of the last sail frigates. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1860 and was broken up in 1876.
• The sixth Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass protected cruiser launched in 1885 and sold in 1905.
• The seventh Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass monitor, launched for Brazil in 1913 but purchased in 1914 and sold in 1921, being scrapped in 1923.
• The eighth Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1934 and scrapped in 1946.
• The ninth and latest Template:HMS is a Template:Sclass2 launched in 2002.

Battle honours

• Algiers 1816
• Belgian Coast 1914
• Konigsberg 1915
• Sicily 1943
• Aegean 1943
• Norway 1940
• Atlantic 1940–1941

References

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|_exclude=case, year, _debug
| 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

}}