HMS Superb

Template:Use British English Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Superb, or HMS Superbe:

• was a 64-gun third rate, previously the . She was captured by in 1710 and was broken up in 1732
• was 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1736 and broken up in 1757
• was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1760 and wrecked in 1783
• was a 22-gun sixth rate. She was previously a French ship, captured in 1795 by and used as a prison ship from 1796. She was sold in 1798.
• was a 74-gun third rate, launched in 1798 and broken up in 1826
• was an 80-gun second rate, launched in 1842 and broken up in 1869
• HMS Superb was to have been a broadside ironclad battleship, but she was renamed in 1874 before being launched in 1875. She was sold in 1908.
• was a battleship launched in 1875. She was built for the Turkish Navy, and was to have been named Hamidiyeh. She was purchased by Britain in 1873 and was sold in 1906.
• was launched in 1907, involved in the Occupation of Constantinople and sold in 1923
• was a light cruiser launched in 1943 and sold in 1960.
• was a nuclear-powered hunter killer submarine launched in 1974, and decommissioned on 26 September 2008 after sustaining damage in an underwater grounding in the Red Sea

Battle honours

Ships named Superb have earned the following battle honours:

• Passero, 1718
• Sadras, 1782
• Providien, 1782
• Negapatam, 1782
• Trincomalee, 1782
• Gut of Gibraltar, 1801
• San Domingo, 1806
• Algiers, 1816
• Alexandria, 1882
• Jutland, 1916

See also

• French ship Superbe