HMS Orlando

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HMS Orlando has been the name of four ships of the Royal Navy.

  • fifth rate
    launched in 1811, used for harbour service or as a hospital from 1819 and sold in 1824.
  • HMS Orlando (1858) was a wood screw frigate launched in 1858 and sold in 1871.
  • armoured cruiser
    launched in 1886 and scrapped in 1905.
  • HMS Orlando was to have been a Laforey-class destroyer, but was renamed HMS Loyal prior to being launched in 1913.
  • shore establishment
    and gunnery school at Navy house, Greenock, Scotland.

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