HMS Orion

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Orion", after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology.

*HMS|Orion|1787|6 was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1787 and broken up in 1814.
*HMS|Orion|1854|6 was an 80-gun second rate screw ship launched in 1854 and broken up in 1867.
*HMS|Orion|1879|6 was an armoured corvette built for the Ottoman Empire but purchased by the Royal Navy in 1878 and launched in 1879. She was converted to a depot ship and renamed HMS "Orontes" in 1909, and was sold in 1913.
*HMS "Orion" was to have been an armoured cruiser. She was projected in 1904 but never built.
*HMS|Orion|1910|6 was an "Orion" class battleship launched in 1910 and sold in 1922.
*HMS|Orion|85|6 was a "Leander"-class light cruiser launched in 1932 and sold in 1949.
*HMS|Orion|1940|6 was a French submarine seized in 1940, laid up until 1943 and then broken up.

ee also

*HMAS|Orion was an "Oberon"-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy launched in 1974 and decommissioned and laid up in 1996.
*HMS|Orion|A201|6 is a signals intelligence gathering vessel of the Royal Swedish Navy, operated on behalf of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment.

Battle Honours

(First)
*First of June 1794
*Groix Island 1795
*St Vincent 1797
*Nile 1801
*Trafalgar 1805;

(Second)

*Baltic 1855;

(Fifth)

*Jutland 1916;

(Sixth)

*Atlantic 1939
*Calabria 1940
*Mediterranean 1940-43-44
*Malta Convoys 1941
*Matapan 1941
*Greece 1941
*Crete 1941
*Sicily 1943
*Salerno 1943
*Aegean 1944
*Anzio 1944
*Normandy 1944
*South France 1944

References

*Colledge
* A.E. Weightman : "Crests and Badges of H.M. Ships" (1957) ISBN (none)