HMS Brave may refer to one of the following ships of the Royal Navy: English ship Brave was a vessel hired by the Crown in 1588. was a xebec captured in 1747 and sold in 1748. was hired in 1798 and run down by a transport in 1799. HMS Brave (1805) was the French 80-gun Formidable, captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805, and broken up in 1816. HMS Brave was the ex-French 74-gun Brave, captured on 6 February 1806. She foundered on 12 April due to damage she had sustained during her capture at the Battle of San Domingo. was an gunboat built by John Laird, Sons & Company in 1856. She was laid up at Haslar after completion and broken up at Portsmouth in 1869. , was an commissioned in 1943 and broken up in 1958. HMS Brave was to have been the name of the 1944 subsequently named . , a Type 22 frigate first commissioned in 1986 and expended as a target in August 2004. Battle honours Armada 1588 Cadiz 1596 South France 1944 Kuwait 1991 See also The s: Footnotes and references Royal Navy ship names