// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did HMS Courageous say to its friend? "You can 'sea' I'm courageous.
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.
Battle honours
[edit]Ships named Courageous have earned the following battle honours:
- Falkland Islands, 1982
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