HMS Courageous or Courageux (the French

French language

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 spelling) may refer to one of several ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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, a 74-gun ship of the line

Ship of the line

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 captured from the French on 13 Aug 1761, and wrecked on the coast of Morocco 19 Dec 1796., or Courageuse, was a 32-gun sailing frigate captured from the French in June 1799. She was renamed 'Lutine' in Nov 1799 and used as a prison ship at Gibraltar. Sold in April 1802., a 74-gun 3rd rate launched in 1800, laid up in 1814, and later in use as a lazaretto

Lazaretto

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. Broken up 1832., originally a 1st class cruiser, converted to an aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

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 in 1924; sunk by U-29

German submarine U-29 (1936)

German submarine U-29 was a Type VIIA U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine during World War II.She was laid down on 2 January 1936 and commissioned on 10 November 1936. During her career U-29 was involved in seven war patrols under the command of Kapitänleutnant Otto Schuhart...

 in Sept. 1939., a submarine

Submarine

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 in service from 1971 to 1993, and presently on display at Plymouth

Plymouth

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