Editing HMS Warspite (section)

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Seven ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''''Warspite'''''. The origins of the name are unclear, although it is probably from the word ''[[wikt:spight|spight]]'' – an Elizabethan-era spelling variation of both ''[[wikt:spite|spite]]'' and ''[[wikt:speight|speight]]'' – in part embodying contempt for the Navy's enemies, but which was also the common name for the [[European green woodpecker|green woodpecker]], suggesting the 'Warspight' would poke holes in enemy ships' (wooden) hulls.<ref name=Ballantyne>{{cite book|last=Ballantyne|first=Iain|title=Warspite: From Jutland Hero to Cold War Warrior|publisher=pen & Sword Maritime|location=Barnsley, UK|year=2013|isbn=978-1-84884-350-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dNX612zp1gC |ref=Ballantyne2013}}</ref>{{Rp|page=10}} Until 1919 a woodpecker was used as the ships' crest; the official badge was a cannon, although the woodpecker continued to be used on the ships' tompions or gun muzzle plugs. ''Warspite'' carries the most [[battle honour]]s of any ship in the Royal Navy, with the sixth ''Warspite'' being awarded fifteen of them.<ref name=Ballantyne/>{{Rp|page=6}}

* {{ship|English ship|Warspite|1596}} was a 29-gun [[galleon]], originally known as ''Warspight''. She was launched in 1596 and sold in 1649.
* {{HMS|Warspite|1666}} was a 70-gun [[third-rate]] [[ship of the line]] launched in 1666. She was renamed {{HMS|Edinburgh|1721|6}} in 1721, rebuilt three times and [[broken up]] in 1771.
* {{HMS|Warspite|1758}} was a [[Seventy-four (ship)|74-gun]] third rate launched in 1758. She was on harbour service from 1778, was renamed {{HMS|Arundel}} in 1800 and was broken up in 1801.
* {{HMS|Warspite|1807}} was a 76-gun third rate launched in 1807, [[razee]]d in 1840 and paid off in 1846. Lent to [[The Marine Society]] in 1862, she became a training ship until destroyed by fire in 1876.
* {{HMS|Warspite|1884}} was an {{sclass|Imperieuse|cruiser|0}} first-class [[armoured cruiser]] launched in 1884 and scrapped in 1905.
* {{HMS|Warspite|03}} was a {{sclass|Queen Elizabeth|battleship}} launched in 1913. She served in the [[First World War]] and in numerous operations in the [[Second World War]], earning the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship. She ran aground on her way to be broken up in 1947 and was scrapped in 1950.
* {{HMS|Warspite|S103}} was a {{sclass|Valiant|submarine|0}} [[nuclear-powered]] [[submarine]] launched in 1965 and decommissioned in 1991.  She is currently awaiting disposal.
* HMS ''Warspite'' is the third planned {{sclass|Dreadnought|submarine|0}} [[ballistic missile submarine]].