HMS Rose

HMS Rose and similar, is the name of several ships. These include:

Royal Navy ships designated "HMS"
Twenty ships of the British Royal Navy have been named Rose or HMS Rose after the rose:


 * ENGLISH SHIP Rose was a King's ship in 1222.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Rose was a Cinque Ports ship in 1300. She was captured by the French in 1338 but was retaken in 1340.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Rose was a ballinger acquired in 1419 and sold in 1425.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Rose was a galley listed from 1512 until 1521.
 * ENGLISH SHIP Rose was a 6-gun pink launched in 1657 and transferred in 1661 to the Irish Packet Service.
 * HMS Rose (1670) was a 4-gun fireship captured from the Algerians in 1670 and expended in 1671.
 * HMS Rose (1672) was a 6-gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and lost in 1673.
 * HMS Rose (1674) was a 28-gun fifth rate launched in 1674, converted into a fireship in 1689 and sold in 1698.
 * HMS Rose (1684) (also known as Sally Rose) was a 16-gun sixth rate, formerly a Salé pirate captured in 1684 and sold in 1696.
 * HMS Rose (1709) was a 20-gun sixth rate purchased in 1709 and sold in 1712.
 * HMS Rose (1712) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1712, rebuilt in 1724, hulked in 1739 and sold in 1744.
 * HMS Rose (1740) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1755.
 * HMS Rose (1757) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and sunk as a block ship in 1779.
 * HMS Rose (1783) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1783 and wrecked in 1794.
 * HMS Rose (1805) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1817 for breaking up.
 * HMS Rose (1821) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1821 and broken up in 1851.
 * HMS Rose (1856) was an Albacore-class gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868.
 * HMS Rose (1857) was a survey cutter purchased in 1857. She was stranded in 1864 and the wreck later sold.
 * HMS Rose (1880) was a coastguard yawl launched in 1880 and sold in 1906.
 * HMS Rose (K102) was a Flower-class corvette launched in 1941. She was lent to the Royal Norwegian Navy and sank in 1944 after colliding with HMS Manners (K568).

Other vessels

 * HM HIRED CUTTER Rose – any one of five hired armed vessels that served the Royal Navy between 1799 and 1804
 * HMS Surprise (replica ship), a 1970 replica of the 1757 HMS Rose, now named HMS Surprise, originally launched as HMS Rose