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| | Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | There have been a dozen or so HMS Chathams before the current frigate, but many were small fry, such as the sheer hulk of 1694 which was actually built as a hulk, or the eighth, a ten-gun sloop hired between 1793-95. |
 | | The fifth Chatham, a six-gun yacht launched in 1741, served as the Commissioner’s Yacht at Chatham; she and her company of ten had the honour of transporting Nelson’s body from HMS Victory at the Nore to Greenwich, where it lay in state before the funeral. |
 | | The 12th Chatham was the nameship of a class of 5,400-ton light cruisers, built in 1911 and seeing much service in the First World War. |
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