HMS Thunderer
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Eight ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Thunderer:
- HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1760. She was wrecked in 1780
- HMS Thunderer was a 14-gun ketch launched in 1776. She sank on Lake Champlain in 1777.
- HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1783 and broken up in 1814
- HMS Thunderer was to have been a 74-gun third-rate, but she was renamed HMS Talavera in 1817, prior to her launch in 1818
- HMS Thunderer was an 84-gun second-rate launched in 1831. She was used as a target from 1863, was renamed HMS Comet in 1869, HMS Nettle in 1870, and was finally sold in 1901
- HMS Thunderer was an Devastation class battleship launched in 1872 and sold in 1909
- HMS Thunderer was an Orion class battleship launched in 1911, sold in 1926 and broken up in 1927
- HMS Thunderer was to have been a Lion class battleship. She was ordered in 1939, but work was suspended in 1942, and she was finally cancelled in 1944
- HMS Thunderer was the name given to the Royal Naval Engineering College, located at Keyham, and later Manadon. The college had been founded in 1880, but was commissioned as HMS Thunderer in 1946, and finally paid off in 1995
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