Battle Honours
- 1653 Portland (as the Kentish Frigate)
- 1654 Gabbard (as the Kentish Frigate)
- 1655 Porto Farina
- 1665 Lowestoft
- 1666 Orfordness
- 1692 Barfleur
- 1702 Vigo
- 1703 Velez Malaga
- 1718 Cape Passero
- 1747 Ushant
- 1801 Egypt
- 1914 Falkland Islands
- 1940 Atlantic
- 1940 Mediterranean
- 1942 - 43 Arctic
- 1944 Norway
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:
“Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns!
Love rules, Her gentler purpose runs.
A mighty mother turns in tears
The pages of her battle years,
Lamenting all her fallen sons!”
—Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)