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<p>2600:387:16:233:0:0:0:1: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}<br /> Nine ships and a naval base of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Neptune''''' after the Roman [[Neptune (god)|god of the ocean]]: <br /> <br /> * {{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.<br /> * {{HMS|Neptune|1757}} was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1757. She was hulked in 1784 and broken up in 1816.<br /> * {{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.<br /> * 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.<br /> * {{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.<br /> * {{HMS|Neptune|1863}} was a coastguard [[Cutter (ship)|cutter]] built in 1863 and sold in 1905. <br /> * {{HMS|Neptune|1874}} was an [[ironclad warship]] launched in 1874 as ''Independência'', intended for the [[Brazilian Navy]]. Acquired by the Royal Navy in 1878, she was sold in 1903.<br /> * {{HMS|Neptune|1909}} was an early [[dreadnought]] launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1922.<br /> * {{HMS|Neptune|20}} was a {{sclass|Leander|cruiser (1931)|0}} [[light cruiser]] launched in 1933 and sunk in a minefield off [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] in 1941.<br /> * HMS ''Neptune'' was a projected {{sclass|Neptune|cruiser}} in the 1945 Naval Estimates, but the plans were cancelled in March 1946 and she was never ordered. <br /> *[[HMS Neptune (shore establishment)|HMS ''Neptune'' (shore establishment)]] is the name given to the shore establishment at [[HMNB Clyde]].<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * {{ship|HSwMS|Neptun}}, two submarines of the Swedish Navy<br /> <br /> {{Ship index}}<br /> {{Italic title prefixed|3}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Neptune, Hms}}<br /> [[Category:Royal Navy ship names]]</div>

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