Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Howe, after Admiral Richard Howe: was the ex-Indian merchantman Kaikusroo; renamed to Dromedary in 1806 and sold in Bermuda in 1864 after many years service as a prison hulk. was a 120 gun ship of the line, built in 1815 and broken up in 1854. , launched 1860, was a 121-gun steam line-of-battle ship, renamed Bulwark, and then renamed Impregnable in 1886. , launched 1885, was an . HMS Howe (1916), a proposed , was laid down in 1916 and cancelled in 1917. , launched 1940, was a battleship.
Battle honours Ships named Howe have earned the following battle honours: Arctic, 1942−43 Sicily, 1943 Okinawa, 1945
See also , a hired armed vessel wrecked on the south coast of the Isle of Wight in March 1780.
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