HMS Achates
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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.