HMS Duke of York

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Duke of York, after numerous holders of the title of Duke of York:

• HMS Duke of York was a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1776.
• In 1809 by Joseph Tucker, the Master Shipwright at Plymouth Dockyard, designed a gigantic first rate, to be named Duke of York. She was intended to carry up to 170 guns and would have been the largest warship of the Napoleonic era, but the project was never realised.
• HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship launched in 1940, and broken up in 1958. The original plan was to name her HMS Anson, but she was renamed prior to launch.

See also

• Hired cutter Duke of York
• Hired lugger Duke of York
• TSS Duke of York for merchant ships named Duke of York

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1861762461.