HMS Topaze
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Topaze, after the French word for the gemstone Topaz:
- fifth rate, previously the French frigate Topaze. She was handed over to the British in 1793 by French royalists, and was sold in 1814.
- receiving shipin 1823. She was used as a target from 1850 and broken up in 1851.
- HMS Topaze (1858), a Liffey-class wood screw frigate launched in 1858 and sold in 1884.
- HMS Topaze (1903), a Topaze-class cruiser launched in 1903, and sold in 1921.
There was also a
Second World War, before she sank after a collision with HMS Rodney
in 1941. She does not seem to have been formally commissioned into the Royal Navy, and does not have the HMS prefix.
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