HMS Nonsuch
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Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nonsuch, presumably named after Nonsuch Palace:
- {{ship|English ship|Nonsuch|1603}}, a 38-gun great ship, rebuilt from a previous ship and sold c. 1645
- {{ship|English ship|Nonsuch|1646}}, a 34-gun ship launched in 1646 and wrecked 1664
- {{ship||Nonsuch|1650 ship|2}}, an 8-gun ketch launched in 1650 that the Royal Navy purchased in 1654 and sold in 1667; later as the merchant vessel Nonsuch she made the trading voyage establishing the Hudson's Bay Company
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1668}}, a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1668. Upgraded to a 42-gun fourth rate in 1669, but reverted to 36-gun fifth rate in 1691. She was captured in 1695 by the French privateer {{ship|French ship|Le Francais||2}}
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1686}}, a 5-gun hoy launched in 1686 and sold 1714
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1696}}, a 48-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, launched in 1696, rebuilt 1717, and broken up in 1745
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1741}}, a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line in service from 1741 to 1766
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1774}}, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1774, used as a floating battery from 1794, and broken up in 1802
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1915}}, an {{sclass2|Admiralty M|destroyer}} launched in 1915 and sold in 1921
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|1945}}, a {{sclass|Black Swan|sloop|0}} sloop laid down in February 1945 and canceled in October of that year
- {{HMS|Nonsuch|D107}}, the former German Type 1936A ('Narvik') destroyer {{ship|German destroyer|Z38||2}} taken after the end of World War II, and scrapped in 1949
Battle honours
See also
- {{HMCS|Nonsuch}}, a Canadian Forces Naval Reserve division in Edmonton, Alberta
- HMS Nonsuch is used as a sample ship name by the Royal Navy, signifying a hypothetical vessel, or a "ghost consort"
- A fictional HMS Nonsuch (a 74-gun ship of the line) appears in the tales of Horatio Hornblower
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