Nine ships and a naval base of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

have been named HMS ''Neptune'' after the Roman god of the ocean: * was a 90-gun

second rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...

launched in 1683. She was rebuilt in 1710 and 1730 before being renamed HMS ''Torbay'' in her new incarnation as a

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...

in 1750. She was sold in 1784. * was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1757. She was hulked in 1784 and broken up in 1816. * was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1797. She fought at the

battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 ...

and was broken up in 1818. * HMS ''Neptune'' was to have been a 120-gun

first rate In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line. Originating in the Jacobean era The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scot ...

. She was renamed in 1822, before being launched in 1827. ''Royal George'' was sold in 1875. * was a 120-gun first rate launched in 1832. She was rebuilt as a 72-gun third rate with screw propulsion in 1859 and was sold in 1875. * was a coastguard cutter built in 1863 and sold in 1905. * was previously ''Independência'', an ironclad battleship launched in 1874 for the

Brazilian Navy ) , colors= Blue and white , colors_label= Colors , march= "Cisne Branco" ( en, "White Swan") (same name as training ship ''Cisne Branco'' , mascot= , equipment= 1 multipurpose aircraft carrier7 submarines6 frigates2 corvettes4 amphibious warf ...

. Acquired by the Royal Navy in 1878, she was sold in 1903. * was an early

dreadnought The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's , had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her ...

launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1922. * was a

light cruiser A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to thi ...

launched in 1933 and sunk in a minefield off

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in 1941. * HMS ''Neptune'' was a projected in the 1945 Naval Estimates, but the plans were cancelled in March 1946 and she was never ordered. * HMS ''Neptune'' (shore establishment) is the name given to the shore establishment at

HMNB Clyde His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also HMS ''Neptune''), primarily sited at Faslane on the Gare Loch, is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth). It ...

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