HMS Indomitable explained

Two warships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Indomitable:

• was the first battlecruiser in the world, beating sister ship by four months. She was launched in 1907 and scrapped in 1922.
• was an armoured fleet aircraft carrier launched in 1940. She served in the Second World War and was scrapped in 1955.
• HMS Indomitable was to have been an aircraft carrier. She was renamed in 1978, before being launched in 1980.

Battle honours

• Dogger Bank, 1915
• Jutland, 1916
• Malta Convoys 1942
• Diego Suarez 1942
• Sicily 1943
• Palembang 1945
• Okinawa 1945

In popular culture

• In early drafts of Herman Melville's novel Billy Budd, HMS Bellipotent was to have been named Indomitable. This title was used in Benjamin Britten's adaptation of the novel as an opera.

See also

• Indomitable (disambiguation)