HMS Actaeon

Six ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Actaeon" or HMS "Acteon", after Actaeon, a figure in Greek mythology:

* was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1757 and sold as unserviceable in 1766.
* was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1775 and grounded and burnt in 1776.
* was a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1778, on harbour service from 1795 and sold in 1802.
* was a 16-gun brig-sloop captured from the French in 1805 by HMS|Egyptienne and broken up in 1816.
* was a 26-gun sixth-rate launched in 1831. She was converted to a survey ship in 1856, lent to the Cork Harbour Board in 1870 as a hulk, and sold in 1889.
* HMS "Actaeon" was a hulk, originally the 50-gun fourth rate HMS "Vernon" that formed part of the Navy's torpedo school, HMS "Vernon". She was renamed HMS "Actaeon" in 1886 and was sold in 1923.
* was a modified "Black Swan" class sloop launched in 1945 and sold to West Germany in 1959 as "Hipper". She was hulked in 1964 and sold for breaking up in 1967.
*HMS|Actaeon|shore establishment|6 was a shore establishment, originally part of HMS "Vernon". It was established as a separate command in 1905 and paid off in 1922.
**HMS|Ariadne|1859|6 was the original HMS "Actaeon", renamed and commissioned in 1905 and sold in 1922.
**HMS|Dido|1869|6 was HMS "Actaeon II" between 1906 and 1922.

References

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