Ten ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Pandora'' after the
mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship:
* , a 24-gun
sixth rate
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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 , launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS ''Pandora''; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797.
* , an 18-gun launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1811 off the
Skaw with the loss 27 men to exposure.
[Hepper (1994), p. 135.]
* 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.
* , 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.
* , a 3-gun
packet brig launched in 1833. She became a coastguard watchvessel in 1857 and was sold in 1862.
* , a wooden
gunboat
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launched in 1859 and sold in 1875 for use as an Arctic expedition ship. She was sold to American explorers in 1878, renamed and sunk by ice in 1881.
* HMS ''Pandora'', a
armoured cruiser launched in 1889, renamed in 1890 and sold in 1906.
* , a armoured cruiser launched in 1900 and scrapped in 1913.
* , a depot ship, formerly the civilian ''Seti''. She was renamed HMS ''Dolphin'' in 1924 and was sunk by a
mine
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Grammar
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in 1939.
* , a launched in 1929 and sunk at
Valletta
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,
Malta
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in 1942. She was raised in 1943 and broken up in 1957.
See also
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To the Ends of the Earth
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'', a trilogy of novels by
William Golding
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set aboard a fictitious HMS ''Pandora''
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Royal Navy ship names