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. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 456 - Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) For ships that are not original see Ship replica. For preserved incomplete ships see Ships preserved in museums. A submarine is a Watercraft that can operate independently below water as distinct from a Submersible that has only limited underwater capability 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

HMS Courageous (S50) was a Churchill-class nuclear fleet submarine in service with the Royal Navy from 1971. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar.

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. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Further reading Footnotes 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. For ships that are not original see Ship replica. For preserved incomplete ships see Ships preserved in museums.

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. Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB Devonport ( HMS ''Drake'') is one of three UK operating bases for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 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. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the Components were removed from HMS Valiant to restore Courageous.

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. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

External links

• Royal Navy website - Royal Naval Ships and Submarines Are Getting Shipshape For Navy Days.