HMS Centurion

• 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 after George Anson's voyage around the world • 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. ==Battle honours==

Ships named Centurion have earned the following battle honours: • Armada, 1588 • Cadiz, 1596 • Dover, 1652 • Portland, 1653 • Gabbard, 1653 • Scheveningen, 1653 • Santa Cruz, 1657 • Lowestoft, 1665 • Four Days' Battle, 1666 • Orfordness, 1666 • Barfleur, 1692 • Velez Malaga, 1704 • Marbella, 1705 • Nuestra Senora de Covadonga, 1743 • Finisterre, 1747 • Louisbourg, 1758 • Quebec, 1759 • Havana, 1762 • St. Lucia, 1778 • China, 1900 • Jutland, 1916 • Normandy, 1944