Definitions for "HMS Ocean"
Six ships that were built for the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ocean. But the name Ocean entered the list from which names are selected for British ships because, in 1759, the Royal Navy captured the French ship named Océan. The British studied the French technology of this ship and admired it.
HMS Ocean was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1805 from Woolwich Dockyard just three days after the Battle of Trafalgar. She was a second rate of 2291 tons and from 1806 served for three years as Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood's flagship in the Mediterranean.
The fourth HMS Ocean was a battleship displacing 12,950 tons and armed with four 12 inch and twelve six-inch guns. She was launched in 1898, designed to be able to transit the Suez Canal. From the Mediterranean Station she transferred to the China Station in 1901 before paying off in 1905 and becoming part of the Chatham Reserve.