HMS Indefatigable

HMS Indefatigable

Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Indefatigable:

• HMS Indefatigable was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1784, razeed to a 38-gun frigate in 1795 and broken up in 1816. This was the ship popularised by C. S. Forester in the early volumes of his Hornblower series of novels.
• HMS Indefatigable was to have been a 50-gun fourth rate. She was ordered in 1832 but cancelled in 1834.
• HMS Indefatigable was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1848, loaned as a training ship after 1865, and sold in 1914.
• HMS Indefatigable was an Apollo-class second class cruiser launched in 1891, renamed HMS Melpomene in 1910, and sold in 1913.
• HMS Indefatigable was an Indefatigable-class battlecruiser launched in 1909 and sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
• HMS Indefatigable was a despatch vessel launched in 1883 as HMS Phaeton. She was sold as a training ship named Indefatigable in 1913, was repurchased in 1941 and renamed HMS Carrick II before being scrapped in 1947.
• HMS Indefatigable was an Implacable-class aircraft carrier launched in 1942 and scrapped in 1956.