HMS Providence

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Providence. Another was intended to bear the name:

Ships with the name

• was a 30-gun ship launched in 1637 and wrecked in 1668.
• was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1665 and sunk in action in 1666.
• was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1672 and lost in 1673.
• was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1678 and sold in 1686.
• was a 12-gun sloop captured from the Americans in 1779 and listed until 1780.
• was a 28-gun fifth-rate, previously the American . She was captured in 1780 and sold in 1784.
• was a 16-gun storeship purchased in 1782 and sold in 1784.
• was a 12-gun sloop launched in 1791 and wrecked in 1797.
• was a 14-gun schooner purchased in 1796 and expended as a fireship in 1804.
• HMS Providence was to have been a cutter tender. She was launched as in 1817, but was ordered to be renamed HMS Providence in 1822. The renaming was cancelled however.
• was a Coastguard cutter launched in 1866 and sold in 1870.
• was an built as but renamed before being launched in 1943. She was scrapped in 1958.

In popular culture

• In the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fictional HMS Providence appears as Hector Barbossa's privateer frigate. That ship was played by .
• In Assassin's Creed III the ship that takes the protagonist, Haytham Kenway, to Boston is a British merchant ship named Providence.

See also

• was a ketch captured from the French in 1691 and recaptured by them in 1707.