Several ships of the
Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Euryalus'' after
Euryalus, one of
Argonauts
The Argonauts (; Ancient Greek: ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, '' Argo'', ...
- the mythical band of heroes who accompanied
Jason in his search for the
Golden Fleece.
* , launched 1803, was a
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
. Captained by
Henry Blackwood, she was at the
Battle of Trafalgar, where she was
Collingwood's flagship after the death of
Nelson. She was broken up in Gibraltar in 1860.
* , launched at Chatham in 1853, was a 2,371-ton wooden screw frigate of 35 guns and crew of 515.
* , launched in 1877, was a iron screw
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
, sold in 1897.
* , launched 1901, was a
armoured cruiser
The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range, independent warship, capable of defeating any ship apart from a battleship and fast eno ...
that fought at the
Dardanelles in
World War I. She was scrapped in 1920.
* , launched 1939, was a . In
World War II she was damaged at the
Second Battle of Sirte
The Second Battle of Sirte (on 22 March 1942) was a naval engagement in the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Gulf of Sidra and southeast of Malta, during the Second World War. The escorting warships of a British convoy to Malta held off a much ...
in 1942.
* , launched 1963, was a , scrapped in 1990.
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Royal Navy ship names