Several ships of the British

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have been named HMS ''Audacious''. * was a 74-gun

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in service from 1785 to 1815. * was an , launched in 1869, converted to a depot ship in 1902, later named ''Fisgard'' then ''Imperieuse'', and sold for breakup in 1927. * was a

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, launched in 1912 and sunk by a naval mine in October 1914. * HMS ''Audacious'' was launched in 1897 as the

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SS ''Montcalm'' and changed names multiple time, becoming HMS ''Audacious'' when she was a dummy warship between 1914 and 1916, and .Mitchell & Sawyer (1995). * HMS ''Audacious'' was the original name of the

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of the of

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. The ship was renamed as on 21 January 1946, two months before her launch. * is an , launched on 28 April 2017 and commissioned on 3 April 2020. A 14-gun sloop that captured from France in 1798, ''Audacieux'', was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Audacieux''.

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