HMS Hermione
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermione after Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology.
- Template:HMS was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1782. Her crew mutinied in 1797 and handed her to the Spanish in La Guaira. She was recaptured in Puerto Cabello (1799), renamed HMS Retaliation, and renamed again to HMS Retribution in 1800. She was broken up in 1805.
- Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass protected cruiser launched in 1893. She served in the First World War and was sold in 1921.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass light cruiser, launched in 1939. She was sunk in the Mediterranean by the German submarine Template:GS in 1942.
- Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass launched in 1967 and scrapped in 1997.
Also
- HMAS Hermione (774) was an Australian auxiliary patrol vessel, purchased in 1943 and sold in 1945.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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References
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|_exclude=case, year, _debug | 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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