HMS Neptune

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Nine ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Neptune after the Roman god of the ocean:

HMS Neptune (1683) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1683. She was rebuilt in 1710 and 1730 before being renamed HMS Torbay in her new incarnation as a third rate in 1750. She was sold in 1784.
HMS Neptune (1757) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1757. She was hulked in 1784 and broken up in 1816.
HMS Neptune (1797) was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1797. She fought at the battle of Trafalgar and was broken up in 1818.
HMS Neptune was to have been a 120-gun first rate. She was renamed HMS Royal George (1827) in 1822, before being launched in 1827. Royal George was sold in 1875.
HMS Neptune (1832) was a 120-gun first rate launched in 1832. She was rebuilt as a 72-gun third rate with screw propulsion in 1859 and was sold in 1875.
HMS Neptune (1863) was a coastguard cutter built in 1863 and sold in 1905.
HMS Neptune (1878) was previously Independência, an ironclad battleship launched in 1874 for the Brazilian Navy. Acquired by the Royal Navy in 1878, she was sold in 1903.
HMS Neptune (1909) was an early dreadnought launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1922.
HMS Neptune (20) was a Leander-class light cruiser launched in 1933 and sunk in a minefield off Tripoli in 1941.
HMS Neptune was a projected Neptune-class cruiser in the 1945 Naval Estimates, but the plans were cancelled in March 1946 and she was never ordered.
HMS Neptune (shore establishment) is the name given to the shore establishment at HMNB Clyde.

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales.

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Glasgow after the Scottish city of Glasgow:

Sixteen ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fox, after the fox.

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

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Andromeda, after the Greek heroine Andromeda.

Six Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS Southampton. All were named after Southampton, a port on the south coast of England.

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shannon, after the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland:

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship:

Nineteen ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Drake after Sir Francis Drake or after the drake:

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dragon.

Four ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Boadicea after Boadicea, queen of the Iceni in Roman Britain, whilst another ship was planned but never completed:

The Caledonia-class ships of the line were a class of nine 120-gun first rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir William Rule. A tenth ship was ordered on 29 October 1827 to the same design, but was launched in 1833 as Queen to a fresh design by Sir William Symonds.

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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lark or HMS Larke, after the bird, the lark:

Neptune is a planet in the Solar System.

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