HMS Ajax

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Italic title prefixed Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax:

• was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1767 and sold in 1785.
• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1798. She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and was burned by accident in 1807.
• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1846 and broken up in 1864.
• HMS Ajax was a 78-gun third rate launched in 1835 as . She was renamed HMS Ajax in 1867 and was broken up in 1875.
• was an battleship launched in 1880 and sold in 1904.
• was a battleship launched in 1912 and broken up in 1926.
• was a light cruiser launched in 1934. She took part in the Battle of the River Plate and was broken up in 1949.
• was a launched in 1962 and broken up in 1988.
• was an Admiralty barge built in 1956. She was moored at Jupiter Point on the Lynher River, Plymouth for seamanship training by from 1987 to 2008.

Battle Honours

• St. Vincent 1780
• St Kitts 1782
• The Saints 1782
• Egypt 1801
• Trafalgar 1805
• San Sebastian 1813
• Baltic 1854–55
• Jutland 1916
• River Plate 1939
• Mediterranean 1940–41
• Matapan 1941
• Greece 1941
• Crete 1941
• Malta Convoys 1941
• Aegean 1944
• Normandy 1944
• South France 1944