Eight ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Ariadne'', after
the Greek goddess:
* was a 20-gun
post ship
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launched in 1776. She faced in 1778 and forced ''Alfred''s surrender. ''Ariadne'' was rebuilt in 1792 to carry 24 guns, and was sold in 1814.
* was an advice boat purchased in 1805. She was renamed HMS ''Dove'' later that year, and HMS ''Flight'' in 1806. She foundered in 1806.
* was another 20-gun post ship launched in 1816. She was converted into a coal hulk in 1837 and was sold in 1841.
* was an Indian iron paddle sloop launched in 1839 that foundered in 1842.
* was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1859. She became part of the shore establishment in 1884, and was renamed in 1905. She was finally sold in 1922.
* was a launched in 1898, converted to a
minelayer
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in 1917 and torpedoed and sunk later that year.
* was an launched in 1943 and sold for breaking up in 1965.
* was a launched in 1971. She was sold to the
Chilean Navy
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History
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in 1992, and renamed ''General Baquedano''. She was decommissioned in 1998 and sunk as a target in 2004.
See also
* was a flat-bottomed iron paddle steamer built in England for the
Indian Navy
The Indian Navy (IN) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Navy, maritime and Amphibious warfare, amphibious branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Chief ...
of the Bombay Government of the British
East India Company
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. She was shipped to India in pieces and assembled at the
Bombay Dockyard
Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, abbreviated as ND (Mbi) and previously known as the Bombay Dockyard, is an Indian shipbuilding yard in Mumbai.
The superintendent of the dockyard is a naval officer of the rank Rear Admiral, known as the Admiral Superint ...
in 1840. She sailed from India to join the British fleet off Shanghai,
China
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, during the
First Opium War
The First Opium War ( zh, t=第一次鴉片戰爭, p=Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Chinese Qing dynasty between 1839 and 1 ...
but was damaged and later foundered on 23 June 1842.
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Royal Navy ship names