Editing HMS Sceptre

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Five [[ship]]s of the British [[Royal Navy]] have borne the name '''HMS ''Sceptre''''', after the [[scepter|sceptre]], a symbol of royal authority.

* The first {{HMS|Sceptre|1781}}, launched in 1781, was a 64-gun [[third-rate]] [[ship of the line]]. She was lost with 291 hands during a violent storm in [[Table Bay]], near the [[Cape of Good Hope]], when a series of anchor cables parted in the rising winds on 5 November 1799.
* The second {{HMS|Sceptre|1802}}, launched in 1802, was a [[Seventy-four (ship)|74-gun]] third-rate ship of the line. In 1815, she was decommissioned at [[Chatham, Kent|Chatham]]. Her final years were spent in the Channel blockade of the French before she was finally broken up in 1821.
* The third {{HMS|Sceptre|1917}}, launched in 1917, was an {{sclass2|R|destroyer|||1916}}. She survived [[World War I]] and was sold for disposal in 1926.
* The fourth {{HMS|Sceptre|P215}}, launched in 1943, was a 1940-programme [[British S-class submarine (1931)|S-class]] [[submarine]]. She served in [[World War II]] and was sold to [[British Iron & Steel Corporation|BISCO]] for scrap in August 1949.
* The present {{HMS|Sceptre|S104}}, launched in 1976, is a {{sclass|Swiftsure|submarine|0}} nuclear submarine.

== Battle honours ==
Ships named ''Sceptre'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:
*[[Battle of Trincomalee|Trincomalee]], 1782
*[[Invasion of the Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]], 1795
*[[Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810)|Guadeloupe]], 1810
*[[X-class submarine|Norway]], 1944
*[[Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic]], 1944
*Biscay, 1944

== See also ==
* {{ship|French ship|Sceptre}}

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