HMS Achates

Template:Use dmy dates Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Achates after Achates, a character in Roman mythology. A sixth was planned but never completed:

• Template:HMS was a 13-gun ship launched in 1573, hulked in 1590 and sold in 1605.
• Template:HMS was a 10-gun Template:Sclass launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1810 off Guadeloupe.
• Template:HMS was a 16-gun brig-sloop, originally the French Milan, launched in 1807, that HMS Surveillante captured on 30 October 1809, and that was sold in 1818.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass launched in 1912 and sold in 1921.
• Template:HMS was an A-class destroyer launched in 1929 and sunk in 1942 by the German cruiser Template:Ship.
• Template:HMS was to have been an Template:Sclass. She was launched in 1945, but was never completed, and was sunk as a target in 1950.

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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