Five ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Achates'' after
Achates
In Greek and Roman mythology, Achates (Ancient Greek: Ἀχάτης) may refer to the following personages:
* Achates, a companion of the exiled Aeneas.
* Achates, a Sicilian who came to Aristaeus in order to join Dionysus in his Indian campaign ...
, a character in
Roman mythology
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. A sixth was planned but never completed:
* was a 13-gun ship launched in 1573, hulked in 1590 and sold in 1605.
* was a 10-gun launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1810 off
Guadeloupe
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.
* was a 16-gun brig-sloop, originally the French ''Milan'', launched in 1807, that
HMS ''Surveillante'' captured on 30 October 1809, and that was sold in 1818.
* was an launched in 1912 and sold in 1921.
* was an
A-class destroyer launched in 1929 and sunk in 1942 by the German cruiser .
* was to have been an . She was launched in 1945, but was never completed, and was sunk as a target in 1950.
References
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Royal Navy ship names