HMS Pandora

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship:

• Template:HMS, a 24-gun Template:Sclass sixth rate launched in 1779. She was sent to capture the Bounty mutineers in 1790 and ran aground in 1791 on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.
• HMS Pandora (1780) was the French 14-gun brig Template:Ship, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS Pandora; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797.
• Template:HMS, an 18-gun Template:Sclass launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1811 off the Skaw with the loss 27 men to exposure.<ref>Hepper (1994), p. 135.</ref>
• HMS Pandora, to have been another 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop. She was ordered in 1812, renamed HMS Lynx later that year, and was cancelled in 1818.
• Template:HMS, an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813, converted to a ship-sloop in 1825, put up for sale in 1827 and sold in 1831.
• Template:HMS, a 3-gun packet brig launched in 1833. She became a coastguard watchvessel in 1857 and was sold in 1862.
• Template:HMS, a Template:Sclass wooden gunboat launched in 1859 and sold in 1875 for use as an Arctic expedition ship. She was sold to American explorers in 1878, renamed Template:USS and sunk by ice in 1881.
• HMS Pandora, a Template:Sclass armoured cruiser launched in 1889, renamed Template:HMS in 1890 and sold in 1906.
• Template:HMS, a Template:Sclass armoured cruiser launched in 1900 and scrapped in 1913.
• Template:HMS, a depot ship, formerly the civilian Seti. She was renamed HMS Dolphin in 1924 and was sunk by a mine in 1939.
• Template:HMS, a Template:Sclass launched in 1929 and sunk at Valletta, Malta in 1942. She was raised in 1943 and broken up in 1957.

See also

• Template:HMS
• To the Ends of the Earth, a trilogy of novels by William Golding set aboard a fictitious HMS Pandora

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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