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Encyclopedia > HMS Black Prince

Five ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Black Prince, after Edward, the Black Prince (1330-1376), the eldest son of King Edward III of England.


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HMS Black Prince - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (253 words)
The first Black Prince was a 10-gun vessel purchased by the Royalists in March of 1650, and burnt by Parliamentarians on 4 November of the same year.
The fourth Black Prince, launched in 1904, was a Duke of Edinburgh-class cruiser sunk with all hands during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
The fifth Black Prince (81), launched in 1942, was a Dido-class (Bellona subclass) cruiser that saw extensive action in World War II, following which she was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1946.
HMS Enterprise (2350 words)
The first HMS Enterprise (1705)[?], 24, a sixth-rate, was known as l'Entreprise before her capture from the French by HMS Triton in May 1705.
The third HMS Enterprize (1743)[?], 8, was a barca longa[?] captured from Spain in 1743 in the Mediterranean and rated as a sloop by the Royal Navy.
In 1803, another Enterprize-class frigate, HMS Resource[?] (built at Rotherhithe in 1778) was renamed Enterprize, and joined her sister ship at the Tower as another receiving ship to accommodate men taken up by another press at the end of the Peace of Amiens and the outbreak of the Napoleonic War[?].
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