HMS Formidable
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Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Formidable with a fifth, the French "Formidable", renamed HMS Ham after being captured and commissioned:
- HMS Ham (1759) was the 80-gun second rate Formidable captured from the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. Broken up in 1768.
- HMS Formidable (1777) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1777. She fought at the Battle of Ushant and the Battle of the Saintes, was converted to a 74-gun third rate in 1813, and broken up later that year.
- HMS Formidable (1825) was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1825. She was lent as a training ship in 1869 and was sold in 1906.
- HMS Formidable (1898) was a Template:Sclass- predreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and torpedoed and sunk in 1915.
- HMS Formidable (67) was an Template:Sclass- launched in 1939 and sold for scrap in 1953.
See also
- French ship Formidable]
- HMS Belleisle (1795), a former French ship named Formidable.