HMS Royal Oak

Eight ships of the

• second rate launched in 1664 and burnt by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway
  .
• fourth rate. She was a prison ship
  between 1756 and 1763, and was broken up in 1764.
• 74-gun third rate launched in 1769 and used as a prison ship from 1796. She was renamed HMS Assistance
  in 1805, and was broken up in 1815.
• HMS Royal Oak was to have been a 74-gun third rate but she was renamed HMS Renown before her launch in 1798.
• HMS Royal Oak (1809) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809, on harbour service from 1825, and broken up in 1850.
• ironclad frigate
  launched in 1862 and sold in 1885.
• HMS Royal Oak (1892) was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1892 and scrapped in 1914.
• HMS Royal Oak (08) was a Revenge-class battleship launched in 1914 and sunk at anchor in 1939, in Scapa Flow.

Ships named Royal Oak have earned the following battle honours:

• Lowestoft, 1665
• Four Days' Battle, 1666
• Orfordness
  , 1666
• Barfleur, 1692
• Malaga, 1704
• Passero, 1718
• Chesapeake, 1781
• The Saints, 1782
• Jutland, 1916

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