HMS Brave

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Italic title prefixed HMS Brave may refer to one of the following ships of the Royal Navy:

• English ship Brave was a vessel hired by the Crown in 1588.
• was a xebec captured in 1747 and sold in 1748.
• was hired in 1798 and run down by a transport in 1799.
• HMS Brave (1805) was the French 80-gun Formidable, captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805, and broken up in 1816.
• HMS Brave was the ex-French 74-gun Brave, captured on 6 February 1806. She foundered on 12 April due to damage she had sustained during her capture at the Battle of San Domingo.
• was an gunboat built by John Laird, Sons & Company in 1856. She was laid up at Haslar after completion and broken up at Portsmouth in 1869.
• , was an commissioned in 1943 and broken up in 1958.
• HMS Brave was to have been the name of the 1944 subsequently named .
• , a Type 22 frigate first commissioned in 1986 and expended as a target in August 2004.

Battle honours

• Armada 1588
• Cadiz 1596
• South France 1944
• Kuwait 1991

See also

• The s: