HMS Tyne
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Tyne, after the River Tyne, England:
- Template:HMS was a 28-gun Template:Sclass launched in 1814 and sold in 1825. She made one notable capture of a pirate vessel. She became a whaler for Daniel Bennett & Sons, but was lost in early 1827 on her first voyage to the British southern whale fishery.
- Template:HMS was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1826, converted to a storeship in 1848, and sold in 1862 for breaking up.
- HMS Tyne was launched in 1845 as the 36-gun fifth-rate Template:HMS. She became a Royal Naval Reserve training ship in 1863, was renamed Tyne in July 1867, and then Durham in November the same year. She was sold in 1908.
- Template:HMS, launched in 1878 as SS Mariotis, was a troop ship. On 31 August 1880 she was delivering troops to Template:HMS in Zanzibar. She foundered in a gale off Sheerness in 1920 while awaiting disposal.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1940. She served in World War II and the Korean War, and was scrapped in 1972.
- Template:HMS is a Template:Sclass2 launched in 2002 and currently in service.
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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
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