HMS Formidable
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Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Formidable with a fifth, the French Formidable, renamed HMS Ham after being captured and recommissioned; a sixth has been announced:
- HMS Ham (1759) was the 80-gun second rate Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". captured from the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. Broken up in 1768.
- Template:HMS was a second rate; initially of 90 guns, later increased to 98; launched in 1777. She fought at the Battle of Ushant and the Battle of the Saintes, was converted to a 74-gun third rate in 1813, and broken up later that year.
- Template:HMS was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1825. She was lent as a training ship in 1869 and was sold in 1906.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass predreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and torpedoed and sunk in 1915.
- Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass launched in 1939 and sold for scrap in 1953.
- HMS Formidable will be a Type 31 frigate.
Battle honours
Ships named Formidable have earned the following battle honours:
- The Saints 1782
- Matapan 1941
- Crete 1941
- Mediterranean 1941
- North Africa 1942–43
- Sicily 1943
- Salerno 1943
- Norway 1944
- Okinawa 1945
- Japan 1945
See also
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- Template:HMS, a former French ship named Formidable.