HMS Cressy
List of ships with the same or similar names
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cressy, after the Battle of Crécy.
- HMS Cressy (1810) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1810 and broken up in 1832.
- HMS Cressy (1853) was an 80-gun screw propelled third rate launched in 1853 and sold in 1867.
- HMS Cressy (1899) was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser launched in 1899 and sunk by a U-boat in 1914.
- HMS Cressy was the name given to the 46-gun fifth rate HMS Unicorn between 1941 and 1959 while she was serving as a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve. She was handed over for preservation in 1968.
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.