Editing HMS Prince of Wales

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Seven ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Prince of Wales''''', after numerous holders of the title the [[Prince of Wales]].

* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|1765}} was a 74-gun [[third rate]] launched in 1765. She had been originally planned as HMS ''Hibernia'', but the name was changed prior to launch. She was broken up in 1783.
* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|1794}} was a 98-gun [[second rate]] launched in 1794 and broken up in 1822.
* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|1795}} was a 38-gun transport purchased in 1795, and still on the records in 1801.
* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|1860}} was a 121-gun screw-propelled [[first rate]] launched in 1860. She was converted to a training ship and renamed HMS ''Britannia'' in 1869, hulked in 1909 and sold in 1914. She was finally broken up in 1916.
* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|1902}} was a {{sclass|London|battleship}} launched in 1902 and sold for scrap in 1920.
* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|53}} was a {{sclass|King George V|battleship|2||1939}} launched in 1939 and sunk in a Japanese [[Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse|airstrike]] on 10 December 1941.
* {{HMS|Prince of Wales|R09}} is the second  {{sclass|Queen Elizabeth|aircraft carrier}}.

==Battle honours==
*[[Battle of St. Lucia|St. Lucia]] 1778
*[[Battle of Groix|Groix Island]] 1795
*[[Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign|Dardanelles]] 1915
*[[Operation Rheinübung|''Bismarck'']] 1941
*[[Malta convoys|Malta Convoys]] 1941

==See also==
* {{ship||Prince of Wales|ship}} - the name of several British merchant vessels
* {{ship||Prince of Wales|EIC ship}} - several ships serving the British [[East India Company]] (EIC)
** {{ship|HCS|Prince of Wales|1805|6}} was a 14-gun [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1805 at [[Bombay Dockyard]] for the [[Bombay Marine]], the EIC's naval arm. She was sold in 1826 or 1827. In 1829 she was listed as being registered at Bombay.
* {{HMS|Thrush|1806|6}} was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1794 for the Customs Service under the name ''Prince of Wales''. The Admiralty purchased her in 1806 and sent her out to Jamaica where she was hulked in 1809 and where she sank at anchor in 1815.
*''Prince of Wales'' was a vessel belonging to the Excise service of Scotland in 1799 that was responsible for the coast between the [[Mull of Kintyre]] and [[Cape Wrath]]. She was of 300 tons (bm), and armed with 20 guns. She had a crew of 50 men under William Murray.<ref>''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 1,  btwn. p.264 & 268.</ref>
*''Prince of Wales'' a revenue cruiser, built around 1812, and with the [[Experimental Squadron (Royal Navy)|Experimental Squadron]] of 1832.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rAocAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA247 ''The United Services Magazine'', 1832 Part III,  p.245 and p.246]</ref>

==Citations==
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==References==
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