Eight ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ...
have been named HMS ''Intrepid'':
* was a 64-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the thir ...
, previously the French ship ''Sérieux''. She was captured in 1747 and broken up by 1765.
* was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1770, used for harbour service from 1810 and sold in 1828.
* was a 16-gun
sloop
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launched in 1780. She foundered in 1800.
* was a wooden screw discovery sloop, previously the civilian ''Free Trade'', launched in 1847.
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(1849), Seq.№F36.
/ref> The Navy purchased her in 1850 and briefly named her HMS ''Perseverance''; it renamed her HMS ''Intrepid'' later in 1850. She was abandoned in the Arctic in 1854.
* was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1855 and sold in 1864.
* was an protected cruiser
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launched in 1891. She was converted to a minelayer
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in 1910 and was sunk as a blockship
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in the Zeebrugge raid
The Zeebrugge Raid ( nl, Aanval op de haven van Zeebrugge;
) on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. The British intended to sink obsolete ships in the canal entrance, to prevent Germ ...
in 1918.
* was an launched in 1936 and sunk by air attack in 1943.
* was a launched in 1964. She was laid up in 1991 and used for spare parts before being sent for scrapping in 2008.
Battle honours
The ships named HMS ''Intrepid'' have amassed a sizeable number of battle honours.
* Minorca 1756
* Lagos 1759
* Quiberon 1759
* Havana 1762
* Martinique 1780
* Chesapeake 1781
* St Kitts 1782
* Toulon 1793
* Martinique 1809
* Zeebrugge 1918
* Atlantic 1939–41
* Dunkirk 1940
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* ''Bismarck'' 1941
* Arctic 1941–43
* Malta Convoys 1942
* Sicily 1943
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* Salerno 1943
* Aegean 1943
* Falkland Islands 1982
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Citations
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Royal Navy ship names