HMS Crown
Introduction Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name '''HMS ''Crown'''''. Another was planned but never completed:*  was a 48-gun ship launched as ''Taunton'' in 1654.She was renamed HMS ''Crown'' in 1660, was rebuilt in 1704 and wrecked in 1719. *  was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1747, used as a storeship from 1757, and sold in 1770. *  was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1782.She was used as a prison ship from 1798, a powder hulk from 1802 and was broken up in 1816. *  was a gunvessel purchased in 1794 and sold in 1800. * HMS ''Crown'' was to have been a  wooden screw gunboat. She was laid down in 1861 and cancelled in 1863. *  was a  destroyer launched in 1945 and sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1946 as ''Oslo''.
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