HMS Courageous (S50)

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Career (UK)

Name:	HMS Courageous
Laid down:	15 May 1968
Launched:	7 March 1970
Commissioned:	16 October 1971
Decommissioned:	10 April 1992
Motto:	Fortiter in Angustis ("Bravely in straits")
Fate:	Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type:	Churchill-class submarine
Displacement:	4,900 tonnes (submerged)
Length:	86.9 m (285 ft 1 in)
Beam:	10.1 m (33 ft 2 in)
Draught:	8.2 m (26 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:	One nuclear reactor, one shaft
Speed:	28 knots (52 km/h) submerged
Complement:	103
Armament:	6 × 533 mm toredo tubes Mark 8 torpedoes Mark 24 Tigerfish torpedoes RN Sub Harpoon missiles

Service record
Operations	Falklands War

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Courageous.

HMS Courageous (S50) was a Churchill-class nuclear fleet 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.

During the HMNB Devonport Navy Days 2006, one of the members of the team currently restoring HMS Courageous pointed out that HMS Valiant was one of the first Royal Navy submarines to have her reactor removed (hence the box-like structures, visible in the photograph on the HMS Valiant page, which penetrate deep into the pressure hull. Later attempts on other vessels didn't require these structures). As the Valiant had been cosmetically wrecked by this work, HMS Courageous was selected for the museum ship to represent the SSN fleet of the Royal Navy during the Cold War. Components were removed from HMS Valiant to restore Courageous.^{[citation needed]}

HMS Courageous was due to be moved in 2007 from her current berth to a new berth, due to development of the HMNB Devonport area where she currently resides.