HMS Neptune (1797 at Deptford) was a 98-gun This is one of six ratings (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) in the rating system of the Royal Navy. In the British Royal Navy, a second-rate was a ship of the line mounting 90 to 98 guns, typically built with three gun decks. The second-rate three-decker... 2nd rate Ships of the line were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. A first-rate from about 1845 In the age of sail, after the development of the line of battle tactic in the mid 17th century, and up to the mid 19th... ship of the line which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar Conflict Napoleonic Wars Date 21 October 1805 Place Cape Trafalgar Result Decisive British victory The Battle of Trafalgar, fought on 21 October 1805, was the most significant naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars and the pivotal naval battle of the 19th century. A Royal Navy fleet under... Battle of Trafalgar. After the battle, it was the Neptune that towed the crippled This article is about the late 18th century ship of the line HMS Victory. For other ships of the same name see HMS Victory (disambiguation). HMS Victory mast and rigging HMS Victory is a 100 gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in the 1760s and currently... Victory, bearing Lord Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (September 29, 1758 – October 21, 1805) was a British admiral who won fame as a leading naval commander. He is famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, where he lost his life. He became... Nelson's body, back to Gibraltar.

Combatants at Trafalgar also included the French ship Neptune and the Spanish ship Neptuno.

Neptune served as the flag ship for Rear Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane leading the fleet that captured the French colony of Martinique in the West Indies in 1809.

This was the second of nine ships to bear the name Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Neptune after the Roman god of the ocean. Neptune, launched in 1683, was a 2nd rate of 90 guns that was twice rebuilt before being renamed Torbay in her new incarnation as a 3rd rate in 1750. Neptune was a... Neptune. She was laid up in ordinary in 1810 and broken up 1818.