Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Formidable with a fifth, the French Formidable, renamed HMS Ham after being captured and recommissioned; a sixth has been announced: HMS Ham (1759) was the 80-gun second rate captured from the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. Broken up in 1768. was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1777. She fought at the Battle of Ushant and the Battle of the Saintes, was converted to a 74-gun third rate in 1813, and broken up later that year. was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1825. She was lent as a training ship in 1869 and was sold in 1906. was a predreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and torpedoed and sunk in 1915. was an launched in 1939 and sold for scrap in 1953. HMS Formidable will be a Type 31 frigate. Battle honours Ships named Formidable have earned the following battle honours: The Saints 1782 Matapan 1941 Crete 1941 Mediterranean 1941 North Africa 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Norway 1944 Okinawa 1945 Japan 1945 See also , a former French ship named Formidable. Royal Navy ship names