HMS Hawke

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hawke, after an archaic spelling of the bird, the hawk. Two of the later ships were named after Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, whilst another was planned:

See also

Notes

  1. Hepper (1794), p.32.
  2. Hepper (1994), p.83.
  3. D.K.Brown. Rebuilding the RN- Warship design since 1945. Seaforth(2012) UK

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