HMS Bellona

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bellona after Bellona, the goddess of war in Roman mythology:

• Template:HMS was a 30-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer Bellone. She was captured in 1747, and sold in 1749.
• Template:HMS was a 74-gun third rate, launched in 1760 and broken up in 1814.
• Bellona, possibly a hired armed vessel or armed ship, was lost at the mouth of the Elbe circa December 1779. She had been escorting a convoy from Hull to Hamburg. Several of the merchantmen in the convoy were lost too.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Template:HMS was a 3-gun vessel purchased in 1794. She was used as a mud boat from 1799 and was broken up in 1805.
• Template:HMS was a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer Template:Ship. She was captured in 1806, renamed HMS Blanche in 1809, and was broken up in 1814.
• HMS Bellona was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812 as Template:HMS. She was renamed HMS Bellona in 1818, used for harbour service from 1840 and was broken up in 1868.
• Template:HMS was a third-class cruiser launched in 1890 and sold in 1906.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass scout cruiser launched in 1909 and sold in 1921.
• Template:HMS was a modified Dido-class light cruiser launched in 1942, on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy from 1948 to 1956, and broken up in 1959.

See also

• Template:Ship, several merchant vessels by that name

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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