Overview
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Repulse: * was a 50-gun galleon also known as Due Repulse, launched in 1595 and in the records until 1645. * was a 32-gun fifth rate, originally the .
She was captured in 1759 by and foundered in 1776. * was a 10-gun cutter purchased in 1779 and in the records until 1781. * was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1800. * was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and wrecked in 1782. * was a 4-gun vessel purchased in 1794 and broken up a year later. * 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. * was an ironclad ship launched in 1868 and sold in 1889. * was a launched in 1892 and sold in 1911. * was a launched in 1916 and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941. * was a launched in 1967 and laid up in 1997.
Battle honours
* Cadiz, 1596 * Martinique, 1762 * The Saints, 1782 * Atlantic, 1939–40 * Norway, 1940 * Bismarck, 1941