{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named '''HMS ''Canopus'' ''': * The first {{HMS|Canopus|1798}} was an 80-gun third-rate French ship of the line launched in 1797, captured at the Battle of the Nile, and commissioned into the Royal Navy. She was scrapped in 1887. * The second {{HMS|Canopus|1897}} was a {{sclass|Canopus|battleship|0}} pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and finally broken up in 1920. She fought in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.
HMS ''Canopus'' was also the name of a Royal Navy training base at Alexandria in World War II. ==References== *{{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}}
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