HMS Formidable
At least six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Formidable.
- Formidable was an 80-gun ship of the line captured from the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759.
- Formidable was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line which fought at the Battle of Ushant (1778) and served as Rodney's flagship at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.
- Formidable was a 74-gun ship of the line, captured from the French in 1795, and renamed HMS Belleisle.
- Formidable was an 84-gun ship of the line, built in 1825 and sold in 1906.
- Formidable was the lead ship of her class of predreadnought battleship. She was torpedoed on 1 January 1915, the third British battleship to be sunk during the First World War, and the second by enemy action. The wreck site is designated as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act.
- Formidable was an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier launched in 1939 and scrapped in 1956.
See also
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