# HMS Scipio

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Four ships of the [British Royal Navy](/source/British_Royal_Navy) have borne the name **HMS *Scipio*** after the Roman general [Scipio Africanus](/source/Scipio_Africanus):

- [HMS *Scipio* (1739)](/source/HMS_Scipio_(1739)) was an 8-gun [fireship](/source/Fireship) purchased in 1739 and sold in 1746.
- [HMS *Scipio* (1782)](/source/HMS_Scipio_(1782)) was a 64-gun [third rate](/source/Third_rate) launched in 1782 and broken up in 1798.
- HMS *Scipio* was the intended name for a 74-gun third rate, but she was renamed [HMS *Bulwark*](/source/HMS_Bulwark_(1807)) in 1806 before being launched in 1807.
- [HMS *Scipio*](/source/Dutch_corvette_Scipio_(1784)) was the Dutch 20-gun [corvette](/source/Corvette) that [Edward Pellew](/source/Edward_Pellew,_1st_Viscount_Exmouth) in [HMS *Psyche*](/source/HMS_Psyche_(1805)) captured in 1807. She was not commissioned into the Royal Navy but served in the East Indies as HMS *Scipio* and then HMS *Samarang*. She was sold in 1814.

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