HMS Audacious
Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Audacious.
- HMS Audacious (1785) was a 74-gun 3rd rate in service from 1785 to 1815.
- HMS Audacious (1869) was a Template:Sclass-, launched in 1869, converted to a depot ship in 1902, later named Fisgard then Imperieuse, and sold for breakup in 1927.
- HMS Audacious (1912) was a Template:Sclass- dreadnought battleship, launched in 1912 and sunk by a mine in October 1914.
- HMS Audacious was launched in 1897 as the cargo liner SS Montcalm and changed names multiple time, becoming HMS Audacious when she was a dummy warship between 1914-1916, and SS Polar Chief.[1]
- HMS Audacious was an initial name of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, of the Template:Sclass-. The vessel was renamed HMS Eagle on 21 January 1946, two months before her launch on 19 March 1946.
- HMS Audacious (S122) is an Template:Sclass-, launched on 28 April 2017 and commissioned on 3 April 2020.
A 14-gun sloop that HMS Magnanime captured from France in 1798, Audacieux, was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Audacieux.[2] The ship appears never to have been commissioned and was last listed in 1801.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Mitchell & Sawyer (1995).
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 380364" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol v. National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 30 July 2011. [dead link]
- Mitchell, W H, and Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships. London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. 386. ISBN 1-85044-275-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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