HMS Howe

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Howe, after Admiral Richard Howe:

• prison hulk
  .
• HMS Howe (1815) was a 120 gun ship of the line, built in 1815 and broken up in 1854.
• HMS Howe (1860), launched 1860, was a 121-gun steam line-of-battle ship, renamed Bulwark, and then renamed Impregnable in 1886.
• Admiral-class
  battleship.
• HMS Howe (1916), a proposed Admiral-class battlecruiser, was laid down in 1916 and cancelled in 1917.
• HMS Howe (32), launched 1940, was a King George V-class battleship.

Battle honours

Ships named Howe have earned the following battle honours:^{[note 1]}

• Arctic, 1942−43
• Sicily
  , 1943
• Okinawa, 1945

See also

• hired armed vessel wrecked on the south coast of the Isle of Wight in March 1780.^[2]

References

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