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Three ships and three [[shore establishment]]s of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Ceres''''', after the goddess [[Ceres (Roman mythology)|Ceres]] of [[Roman mythology]].

'''Ships'''
* {{HMS|Ceres|1777}} was an 18-gun [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1777 that the {{ship|French frigate|Iphigénie|1777|2|up=yes}} captured in December 1778 off [[Saint Lucia]]. The British recaptured her in 1782 and renamed her ''Raven'', only to have the French recapture her again early in 1783. The French returned her name to ''Cérès'' and she served in the French Navy until sold at [[Brest, France|Brest]] in 1791.
* {{HMS|Ceres|1781}} was a 32-gun [[fifth rate]] launched in 1781 and broken up in 1830. Because ''Ceres'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the [[Naval General Service Medal (1847)|Naval General Service Medal]], which the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21077|pages=791–792|date=15 March 1850}}</ref>
* {{HMS|Ceres|D59}} was a {{sclass2|C|cruiser|0}} [[light cruiser]] launched in 1917 and sold and broken up in 1946.

'''Shore establishments'''
* {{HMS|Ceres|1946 shore establishment}} was the Supply and Secretariat training school at [[Wetherby]], Yorkshire, between 1946 and 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nmrn.org.uk/shore-establishments|title = Naval Shore Establishments}}</ref>
* {{HMS|Ceres|1984 shore establishment}} was a [[Royal Naval Reserve]] communications training centre in [[Yeadon, West Yorkshire]] between 1984 and 1995.
* {{HMS|Ceres|2015 shore establishment}} (formerly Ceres Division) is a [[Royal Naval Reserve]] unit in [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], commissioned in September 2015.

==Battle honours==
*1778 [[Battle of St. Lucia|Saint Lucia]]
*1801 [[Battle of Abukir (1801)|Egypt]]
*1939 [[Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic]]
*1944 [[Normandy landings|Normandy]]<ref>Thomas, David A. (1998). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=M9KkAwAAQBAJ Battles & Honours of the Royal Navy]''. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. {{ISBN|085052-623-X}}.</ref>

==Citations==
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