HMS Hero

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So far, six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hero , named after the English word for hero :

  • The first HMS Hero was a 74-gun 3rd class ship launched in 1759, used as a prison ship after 1793, renamed HMS Rochester in 1800 and scrapped in 1810.
  • The second HMS Hero was a 3rd class ship with 74 cannons built in 1803, which sank near Texel in 1811, losing almost all of its crew .
  • The third HMS Hero was again a 74-gun, 3rd class ship, launched in 1816, renamed HMS Wellington that same year and HMS Akbar in 1862 , and only demolished in 1908.
  • The fourth HMS Hero was a 2nd class screw ship of the line with 91 guns, built in 1858 and sold as early as 1871.
  • The fifth HMS Hero was a tower ship that was launched in 1885 and sunk during target practice in 1908.
  • The sixth HMS Hero was an H-class destroyer from 1936. The ship was used in World War II and in 1943 was given to the Royal Canadian Navy , which renamed it HMCS Chaudiere .

The name HMS Hero also introduced a fictional frigate of the Leander class - in fact, HMS Phoebe (F42) - on which the popular television series Warship the BBC played during the seventies.

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