HMS ''Courageous'' or ''Courageux'' (the
French
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spelling) may refer to one of several ships of the
Royal Navy:
* , a 74-gun
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
captured from the French on 13 August 1761, and wrecked on the coast of Morocco 19 Dec 1796.
*
HMS ''Courageux'', or ''Courageuse'', was a 32-gun
sailing frigate captured from the French in June 1799. She was renamed 'Lutine' in November 1799 and used as a prison ship at Gibraltar. Sold in April 1802 and broken up in
Malta.
* , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1800, laid up in 1814, and later in use as a
lazaretto. Broken up 1832.
* , a , converted to an
aircraft carrier
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(''Courageous'' class) in 1924; sunk by in September 1939 southwest of
Ireland in the
Celtic Sea.
* , a ''Churchill''-class nuclear powered
fleet submarine in service from 1971 to 1993, and presently on display at
Plymouth
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Plymouth ...
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Battle honours
Ships named ''Courageous'' have earned the following
battle honours:
*
Falkland Islands, 1982
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