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have been named HMS ''Triumph''. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched: * English ship ''Triumph'' (1562) was a 68-gun

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built in 1561. She was rebuilt in 1596, and sold in 1618. * was a 44-gun ship launched in 1623 and broken up in 1687. * was a 90-gun second-rate

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launched in 1698. She was renamed HMS ''Prince'' in 1714, rebuilt in 1750 and broken up in 1773. * was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the Spanish ''San Cristóbal'' (1735), (alias ''Triunfo''). She was captured in 1739 and foundered in 1740. * was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1764. She was used for harbour service from 1813 and was broken up in 1850. * HMS ''Triumph'' was to have been a 91-gun screw propelled ''Bulwark''-class second rate. She was renamed before her launch in 1862 as a armoured frigate. * was a ''Swiftsure''-class

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launched in 1870. She was renamed HMS ''Tenedos'' in 1904, being used as a depot ship, and then a training ship. She was renamed HMS ''Indus IV'' in 1912, and HMS ''Algiers'' in 1915. She was sold in 1921. * was a ''Swiftsure''-class battleship launched in 1903 and sunk by ''U-21'' in 1915. * was a T-class

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launched in 1938 and sunk in 1942. * was a ''Colossus''-class light fleet

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launched in 1944. She was converted to a heavy repair ship in 1964 and was scrapped in 1981. * is a ''Trafalgar''-class fleet submarine launched in 1990 in service until 2024.

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* Armada, 1588 *

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, 1652 * Kentish Knock, 1652 * Portland, 1653 * Gabbard, 1653 * Scheveningen, 1653 *

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, 1665 * Four Days' Battle, 1666 * Orfordness, 1666 * Sole Bay, 1672 * Schooneveld, 1673 * Texel, 1673 * Cornwallis's Retreat, 1795 * Camperdown, 1797 *

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, 1915 * Malta Convoys, 1941 *

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, 1941 *

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, 1950

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