Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Princess Royal:
- HMS Princess Royal (1728) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682 as . She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705, HMS Princess in 1716 and HMS Princess Royal in 1728. She was broken up in 1773.
- HMS Princess Royal (1739) was the former East Indiaman of the same name that the Navy purchased in 1739 and used first as a hospital ship and then as a 24-gun storeship, before selling her in 1750.
- was a 90-gun second-rate launched in 1773. She was rearmed to 98 guns in 1800, and then 74 guns in 1807, before being broken up in 1807.
- was a 91-gun screw-propelled second-rate, originally to have been named HMS Prince Albert. She was launched in 1853 and sold in 1872.
- was a launched in 1911 and sold in 1922.
Battle honours
Ships named Princess Royal have earned the following battle honours:
- Genoa, 1795
- Baltic, 1854
- Crimea, 1855
- Heligoland, 1914
- Dogger Bank, 1915
- Jutland, 1916
See also
- Princess Royal (ship)
- Post Office Packet Service for an account of the packet Princess Royals successful resistance against a French privateer.