HMS Raisonnable
Two ships of the
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Raisonnable
, French for "reasonable":
HMS
Raisonnable
(1758)
, originally a French vessel, the first ship to bear the name was a 64-gun
third-rate
ship of the line
. She was captured by the Royal Navy ships
HMS
Dorsetshire
and
HMS
Achilles
on 29 May 1758. She was lost off
Martinique
on 3 February 1762.
HMS
Raisonnable
(1768)
, built at
Chatham Dockyard
and launched in 1768, was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line. She was the first ship that the future
Lord Nelson
served aboard. She took part in the
Battle of Copenhagen
and the
Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)
. She was broken up at
Sheerness
in 1815.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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