Editing HMS Invincible

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Seven ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Invincible'''''.

* {{HMS|Invincible|1747}} was originally the French 74-gun [[ship of the line]] ''L'Invincible'', captured off [[Cape Finisterre]] in 1747. She was the first purpose-built 74-gun ship of the line to serve in the Royal Navy. The ship sank in February 1758 when she hit a sandbank in the East Solent.
* {{HMS|Invincible|1765}} was a 74-gun [[third rate]] launched in 1765 at [[Deptford Dockyard]] and commissioned at Portsmouth in 1776. Her career saw her involvement in the [[Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)]] (against the Spanish fleet) and the [[Battle of St. Kitts]] and the [[Glorious First of June]] (both against the French fleet). She was also involved in the capture of [[St. Lucia]], [[Trinidad]] and [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Surinam]]. She was wrecked off the Norfolk coast in 1801, with the loss of 400 lives.
* {{HMS|Invincible|1808}} was a 74-gun ship, launched at [[Woolwich]] in 1808. She saw action in the [[Peninsular War]], supporting the British forces. She was [[Ship commissioning#Ship decommissioning|paid off]] in 1814, and broken up in 1861, in [[Plymouth]].
* HMS ''Invincible'' was to have been the world's second ocean-going iron-hulled armoured [[frigate]], and sister to {{HMS|Warrior|1860|6}}, but she was renamed {{HMS|Black Prince|1861|6}} before her launch.
* {{HMS|Invincible|1869}} was an armoured "broadside battleship" built in 1869. She was renamed ''Erebus'' in 1904 and ''Fisgard II'' in 1906, before foundering in a storm in 1914.
* {{HMS|Invincible|1907}} was a [[battlecruiser]] of the [[World War I|First World War]] attached to the [[1st Cruiser Squadron]], [[Home Fleet]] at the end of 1908. She saw action at [[Battle of Heligoland (1914)|Battle of Heligoland Bight]], the [[Battle of the Falkland Islands]], and the [[Battle of Jutland]], where she blew up and sank after taking a hit from {{SMS|Lützow}}, with the loss of 1,026 crew. Only six crew members survived.
* {{HMS|Invincible|R05}} was a light [[aircraft carrier]], the first of three in the {{sclass|Invincible|aircraft carrier|4}}. She served from 1980 to 2005, including service in the [[Falklands War]].<ref>[http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.1278 About Sixth HMS Invincible] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029073952/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.1278 |date=2007-10-29 }} – Royal Navy website</ref> She was scrapped in Turkey in 2011.

==Battle honours==
* [[Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)|St Vincent]], 1780 
* [[Battle of St. Kitts|St Kitts]], 1782 
* [[Glorious First of June]], 1794 
* [[Bombardment of Alexandria (1882)|Alexandria]], 1882
* [[Battle of Heligoland (1914)|Heligoland]], 1914 
* [[Battle of the Falkland Islands|Falkland Islands]], 1914 
* [[Battle of Jutland|Jutland]], 1916 
* [[Falklands War|Falkland Islands]], 1982

==In fiction==
* HMS Invincible, an aircraft carrier in the 1941 film ''[[Ships with Wings]]'', portrayed by {{HMS|Ark Royal|91}}

==See also==
* {{ship||Invincible|ship}}
* [[Invincible class (disambiguation)|Invincible class]]
* {{ship|French ship|Invincible}}
* [[List of French privateers named for Napoleon Bonaparte]]

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