HMS Courageous (S50)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 15 May 1968 |
| Launched: | 7 March 1970 |
| Commissioned: | 16 October 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 April 1992 |
| Fate: | Museum ship |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,900 tonnes submerged |
| Length: | 86.9 m |
| Beam: | 10.1 m |
| Draught: | 8.2 m |
| Propulsion: | One nuclear reactor, one shaft |
| Speed: | 28 knots submerged |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 103 |
| Armament: | 6 x 533 mm tubes capable of firing: Mark 8 torpedoes Tigerfish torpedoes RN Sub Harpoon Missiles |
| Motto: | Fortiter in Angustis |
HMS Courageous (S50) was a Churchill-class hunter-killer nuclear submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1971.
In 1982, the Courageous was sent with her sister ship, the HMS Conqueror, with the British task force to retake the Falkland Islands from the occupying Argentine forces. She returned home later in the year without damage.
The Courageous was retired from service in 1992. She is now a museum ship at Devonport Dockyard.
| Churchill-class submarine |
| List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy |
