HMS Sultan
title: "HMS Sultan" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["royal-navy-ship-names"] topic_path: "history/military" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sultan" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Four ships and three shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named '*HMS *Sultan'''''.
Ships
- was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1775, and converted for use as a prison ship in 1797. She was renamed HMS Suffolk in 1805 and was broken up in 1816.
- was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1807, converted to a receiving ship in 1860, and broken up in 1864.
- was a centre-battery ironclad launched in 1870. She was renamed HMS Fisgard IV in 1906, but reverted to Sultan while a training hulk in 1932. She was scrapped in 1946.
Shore establishments
- was the naval base at Singapore, commissioned in 1940 as a successor to HMS Terror. She was abandoned after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
- HMS Sultan II was the accounting base at Singapore for sea-going tenders, commissioned in 1940 and paid off in 1941.
- HMS Sultan III was the accounting base at Penang, commissioned in 1940 and paid off in 1941.
- HMS Sultan IV was the accounting base at Singapore between 1941 and 1942.
- was the accounting base at Singapore for personnel based at Keppel Harbour, commissioned in 1945 and paid off in 1947.
- HMS Sultan II was the accounting base for the naval base at Singapore, commissioned in 1945 and paid off in 1946, becoming HMS Terror.
- is the Marine Engineering training establishment at Gosport, and is also home to the Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering. It was commissioned in 1956.
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