Battle Honours
Warspite carries the most battle honours of any ship in the Royal Navy, and the eighth ship carries the most for any individual ship.
(First)
- Cadiz 1596
(Second)
- Orfordness 1666
- Sole Bay 1672
- Schooneveld 1673
- Texel 1673
- Barfleur 1692
- Velez Malaga 1705
- Marbella 1705
(Third)
- Lagos 1759
- Quiberon 1759
(Eighth)
- Jutland 1916
- Atlantic 1939
- Narvik 1940
- Norway 1940
- Calabria 1940
- Mediterranean 1940-41-43
- Malta Convoys 1941
- Matapan 1941
- Crete 1941
- Sicily 1943
- Salerno 1943
- English Channel 1944
- Normandy 1944
- Walcheren 1944
- Biscay 1944
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