Ships
- HMS Impregnable was a 98-gun second rate. This ship of the line was launched in 1786 and wrecked in 1799.
- HMS Impregnable was a 98-gun second-rate launched in 1810. She became a school ship in 1862, was renamed HMS Kent in 1888, HMS Caledonia in 1891, and was sold in 1906.
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their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;”
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