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HMS Courageous or Courageux (the French spelling) may refer to one of several ships of the Royal Navy:

  • HMS Courageux (1761), a 74-gun ship of the line captured from the French on 13 August 1761, and wrecked on the coast of Morocco 19 Dec 1796.
  • HMS Courageux, or Courageuse, was a 32-gun sailing frigate captured from the French in June 1799. She was renamed 'Lutine' in November 1799 and used as a prison ship at Gibraltar. Sold in April 1802 and broken up in Malta.
  • HMS Courageux (1800), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1800, laid up in 1814, and later in use as a lazaretto. Broken up 1832.
  • HMS Courageous (50), a Courageous-class battlecruiser, converted to an aircraft carrier (Courageous class) in 1924; sunk by U-29 in September 1939 southwest of Ireland in the Celtic Sea.
  • HMS Courageous (S50), a Churchill-class nuclear powered fleet submarine in service from 1971 to 1993, and presently on display at Plymouth.

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HMS Courageous

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HMS Courageous or Courageux (the French spelling) may refer to one of several ships of the Royal Navy: HMS Courageux (1761), a 74-gun ship of the line...

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Courageous

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Devonport Naval Heritage Centre

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a new gallery there called 'The Box'. The nuclear-powered submarine HMS Courageous, used in the Falklands War, is managed by the Heritage Centre as a museum...

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List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy

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United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...

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Phoney War

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aircraft carriers and destroyers, sinking several, including the carrier HMS Courageous, with the loss of 519 lives. Action in the air began on 16 October 1939...

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List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy

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Kriegsmarine

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Kriegsmarine were the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and the British battleship HMS Royal Oak and the loss of Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle...

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HMS Glorious

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HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...

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Timeline for aircraft carrier service

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1924 26 February – HMS Eagle commissioned. June – Light cruiser HMS Courageous carrier conversion started. 1925 Light cruiser HMS Glorious carrier conversion...

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Otto Schuhart

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U-boat U-29 and was credited with the sinking of the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous on 17 September 1939, the first British warship to be lost in the war...

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Valentin submarine pens

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HMNB Clyde

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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British naval forces in the Falklands War

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ARA General Belgrano Commander C.L. Wreford-Brown HMS Courageous Commander R.T.N. Best Oberon-class submarines HMS Onyx - ran aground - Moderate Damage Lieutenant-Commander...

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List of aircraft carriers

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HMS Illustrious (1982) HMS Ark Royal (1985) Sunk: Glorious class HMS Glorious (1916), sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 8 June 1940 HMS Courageous (1916), sunk...

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Operation Deadlight

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HMNB Devonport

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Battle of the Atlantic

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Leigh Light

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