title: HMS Repulse
text: # HMS Repulse
  
  Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Repulse:
  
  * English ship Repulse (1596) was a 50-gun galleon also known as Due Repulse, launched in 1595 and in the records until 1645.
  * HMS Repulse (1759) was a 32-gun fifth rate, originally the French frigate Bellone. She was captured in 1759 by HMS Vestal and foundered in 1776.
  * HMS Repulse (1779) was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1779 and in the records until 1781.
  * HMS Repulse (1780) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1800.
  * HMS Repulse (1780 cutter) was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and wrecked in 1782.
  * HMS Repulse (1794) was a 4-gun vessel purchased in 1794 and broken up a year later.
  * HMS Repulse (1803) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1803 and broken up in 1820.
  * HMS Repulse was a screw-propelled 91-gun second rate launched on 27 February 1855 as HMS Repulse but renamed HMS Victor Emmanuel on 7 December 1855, used as a receiving ship after 1873, and sold in 1899.
  * HMS Repulse (1868) was an ironclad ship launched in 1868 and sold in 1889.
  * HMS Repulse (1892) was a Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1892 and sold in 1911.
  * HMS Repulse (1916) was a Renown-class battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941.
  * HMS Repulse (S23) was a Resolution-class submarine launched in 1967 and laid up in 1997.
  
  ## Battle honours
  
  * Cadiz, 1596
  * Martinique, 1762
  * The Saints, 1782
  * Atlantic, 1939–40
  * Norway, 1940
  * Bismarck, 1941
  