HMS Scipion
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Two ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Scipion, after the French term for the Roman general Scipio Africanus
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Scipion, after the French term for the Roman general Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , also known as Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Elder, was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic...
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- HMS Scipion a 74-gun third rate, previously the French Téméraire classTéméraire class ship of the lineThe Téméraire class ships of the line was a class of 107 74-gun ships of the line built between 1782 and 1813 for the French navy. The type was and remains the most numerous class of capital ship ever built....
ship of the lineShip of the lineA ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
Scipion. She was handed over to the British in 1793, and was burnt by accident later that year. - HMS Scipion was the French 74-gun third rate Scipion, which the British captured in 1805; she was broken up in 1819.