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HMS Neptune






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Nine ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Neptune after the Roman god of the ocean:

  • HMS Neptune (1757) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1757. She was hulked in 1784 and broken up in 1816.
  • HMS Neptune (1797) was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1797. She fought at the battle of Trafalgar and was broken up in 1818.
  • HMS Neptune was to have been a 120-gun first rate. She was renamed HMS Royal George (1827) in 1822, before being launched in 1827. Royal George was sold in 1875.
  • HMS Neptune (1832) was a 120-gun first rate launched in 1832. She was rebuilt as a 72-gun third rate with screw propulsion in 1859 and was sold in 1875.
  • HMS Neptune (1863) was a coastguard cutter built in 1863 and sold in 1905.
  • HMS Neptune (1874) was an ironclad warship launched in 1874 as Independência, intended for the Brazilian Navy. Acquired by the Royal Navy in 1878, she was sold in 1903.
  • HMS Neptune (1909) was an early dreadnought launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1922.
  • HMS Neptune (20) was a Leander-class light cruiser launched in 1933 and sunk in a minefield off Tripoli in 1941.
  • HMS Neptune was a projected Neptune-class cruiser in the 1945 Naval Estimates, but the plans were cancelled in March 1946 and she was never ordered.
  • HMS Neptune (shore establishment) is the name given to the shore establishment at HMNB Clyde.
  • See also

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