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HMS Alliance

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ5631280 ↗
Source-derived summary

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Alliance:

HMS Alliance, originally the Dutch frigate Alliantie captured from the Dutch Navy off the coast of Norway on 22 August 1795 that the Royal Navy used as a 22-gun store ship. Sold May 1802.

HMS Alliance (W77), lead vessel of her class of four tugs, launched 1910 and scuttled in Hong Kong in 1941 to prevent her capture by the invading Japanese forces.

HMS Alliance (P417), a submarine launched in 1945 but not completed until 1947, and now a museum ship and the only surviving member of her class.

References

Further reading

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (3rd Rev ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

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“HMS Alliance” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alliance, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1795, 1802, 1910, 1941—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alliance, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5631280. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1795, 1802, 1910 and 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Alliance” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.