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Eight ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Centurion'', after the centurions of ancient Rome. A ninth ship was planned but never built. Ships * was a 34-gun ship launched in 1650 and wrecked in 1689. * was a 48-gun fourth-rate launched in 1691 and broken up in 1728. * was a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1732 and broken up 1769. * was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1774. She was reduced to harbour service in 1809, sank at her moorings in 1824 and was raised and broken up in 1825. * HMS ''Centurion'' was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1812 as . She was renamed HMS ''Centurion'' in 1826 and was broken up in 1828. * was an 80-gun third-rate launched in 1844. She was converted to screw propulsion in 1855, and sold in 1870. * was a ''Centurion''-class battleship launched in 1892 and sold in 1910. * was a ''King George V''-class battleship launched in 1911. She was converted to a target ship in 1926, rated as an escort ship in 1940, and was sunk off Arromanches as a breakwater in 1944. * HMS ''Centurion'' was to have been a 9,000 ton cruiser, planned in 1945, but cancelled in 1946. Shore establishment * was the central drafting depot established at Haslemere in 1956, commissioned in 1957 and named in 1964. The base moved to Gosport, becoming a drafting depot and a pay and accounting centre, in 1970. It was paid off in 1994, becoming Centurion building, a tender to , mainly responsible for personnel and Human Resources functions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Centurion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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