High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Audacious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1785 at Rotherhithe. She was the first ship to bear the name. She took part in the Battle of the Nile, under Captain Davidge Gould, where she engaged the French ship Conquerant and helped to force her surrender. She was finally broken up in August 1815. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s.

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