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Nine ships and a naval base of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Neptune''''' after the Roman [[Neptune (god)|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 (ship)|cutter]] built in 1863 and sold in 1905. 
* {{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.
* {{HMS|Neptune|1909}} was an early [[dreadnought]] launched in 1909 and scrapped in 1922.
* {{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.
* 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. 
*[[HMS Neptune (shore establishment)|HMS ''Neptune'' (shore establishment)]] is the name given to the shore establishment at [[HMNB Clyde]].

==See also==
* {{ship|HSwMS|Neptun}}, two submarines of the Swedish Navy

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