HMS Hecla

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hecla, after the volcano Hekla in Iceland.

• Template:HMS was a 10-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1797. She participated in the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) and was broken up in 1813
• Template:HMS, launched in 1815, was a Template:Sclass bomb vessel; she was later converted to an exploration ship and was commanded by William Edward Parry during his exploration of the Arctic
• Template:HMS was a 4-gun Template:Sclass wooden paddle sloop launched in 1839, run aground off Gibraltar on 23 January 1855 and sold in 1863
• Template:HMS was a torpedo boat carrier/depot ship purchased in 1878, modernised in 1912 and sold in 1926
• Template:HMS was a destroyer depot ship launched in March 1940 and sunk off Casablanca on 12 November 1942 by the Template:GS
• HMS Hecla was a repair ship launched in 1944 and transferred to the United States Navy as Template:USS
• Template:HMS, launched in 1964, was a Template:Sclass sold in 1997

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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