HMS Campania

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Campania after the region of Campania in Italy:

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    • The first Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., purchased in 1914, was the passenger liner RMS Campania converted to a seaplane tender. She collided with Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in 1918 and sank in the Firth of Forth. The wreck-site was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 1 December 2001.
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