HMS Indomitable
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Template:Use dmy dates Two warships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Indomitable:
- Template:HMS was the first battlecruiser in the world, beating sister ship Template:HMS by four months. She was launched in 1907 and scrapped in 1922.
- Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass armoured fleet aircraft carrier launched in 1940. She served in the Second World War and was scrapped in 1955.
- HMS Indomitable was to have been an Template:Sclass aircraft carrier. She was renamed Template:HMS in 1978, before being launched in 1980.
Battle honours
- Dogger Bank, 1915
- Jutland, 1916
- Malta Convoys 1942
- Diego Suarez 1942
- Sicily 1943
- Palembang 1945
- Okinawa 1945
In popular culture
- In early drafts of Herman Melville's novel Billy Budd, HMS Bellipotent was to have been named Indomitable. This title was used in Benjamin Britten's adaptation of the novel as an opera.