Notable Ships
See also: List of ship names of the Royal Navy- Mary Rose - sank in 1545 off Portsmouth.
- Golden Hind - flagship of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation and raid on Spanish shipping.
- Ark Royal - flagship of English Fleet against the Spanish Armada. The last Ark Royal was an Invincible-class aircraft carrier that saw action in the 2003 Iraq conflict.
- Revenge - actively engaged Spanish Armada; later became the subject of a poem by Lord Tennyson detailing her heroic fight against a large Spanish force in 1591.
- Endeavour - Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery.
- Bounty - scene of the famous mutiny.
- Victory - Nelson's flagship. This ship is still officially in service and is the world's oldest commissioned warship and the flagship of the Second Sea Lord.
- Beagle - carried Charles Darwin on his voyage.
- Warrior - Britain's first iron hulled, armoured battleship.
- Dreadnought - first "all big-gun" battleship.
- Warspite - fought at Jutland and through the Second World War.
- Hood - battlecruiser destroyed by the German battleship Bismarck.
- Vanguard - last battleship built for the Royal Navy & also ran aground in Portsmouth Harbour.
- Dreadnought - first British nuclear-powered submarine.
- Resolution - first British strategic ballistic missile submarine.
- Invincible - light aircraft carrier.
- Intrepid - end of the Falklands War signed aboard.
- Conqueror - The only nuclear powered submarine to sink an enemy ship.
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