HMS Canopus
Template:Use dmy dates Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Canopus :
- The first Template:HMS was an 80-gun third-rate French ship of the line launched in 1797, captured at the Battle of the Nile, and commissioned into the Royal Navy. She was scrapped in 1887.
- The second Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and finally broken up in 1920. She fought in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
HMS Canopus was also the name of a Royal Navy training base at Alexandria in World War II.
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