HMS Superb

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy were named HMS Superb or HMS Superbe :

• HMS Superb (1710) was a 64-gun ship, previously the French Superbe . It was applied by HMS Kent (1679) in 1710 and broken up in 1732.
• HMS Superb (1736) was a 60-gun ship, launched in 1736, scrapped in 1757.
• Superb (ship, 1760) was a 74-gunship, launched in 1760, shipwrecked in 1783.
• HMS Superbe (1795) was a 22 gun ship. Before a French ship, seized by HMS Vanguard in 1795 and used as a prison camp. Sold 1798.
• HMS Superb (1798) was a 74-gun ship, launched in 1798, scrapped in 1826.
• HMS Superb (1842) was an 80-gun ship, launched in 1842, scrapped in 1869.
• HMS Superb was intended as the name for the later HMS Alexandra (1875) .
• HMS Superb (1875) was originally a battleship ordered as Hamidiyeh for Turkish accounts . It was taken over by the Royal Navy in 1873 and sold in 1906.
• HMS Superb (1907) was a Bellerophon-class battleship launched in 1907, sold in 1923.
• HMS Superb (25) , a Minotaur-class light cruiser , launched in 1943 and sold in 1960.
• HMS Superb (S109) is a nuclear powered Swiftsure-class fighter submarine (1971) . Launched in 1974, decommissioned on September 26, 2008 after being damaged during a bottoming in the Red Sea.