Seven ships of the
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Danae'', after the Greek heroine
Danaë
In Greek mythology, Danaë (, ; ; , ) was an Argive princess and mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus. She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age.
Family
Danae was the daughter and only child of King Acris ...
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* was a 38-gun
fifth rate captured from the French in 1759 by and . She was broken up by 1771.
* was a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1779. She was sold in 1797.
* was a 20-gun
sixth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...
post ship, formerly the French frigate, ''Vaillante''. She was captured by in 1798 off the
Île de Ré. In March 1800 members of her crew mutinied, took control and handed her over to the French.
* was an wooden 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 ...
launched in 1867. She was lent to the War Department in 1886 as a hulk and was sold in 1906.
* was a
light cruiser launched in 1918. She was lent to the
Polish Navy between 1944 and 1946 as ORP ''Conrad'' and was sold for scrapping in 1948.
* HMS ''Danae'' was to have been a named HMS ''Vimiera''. She was later reordered as a destroyer, but was cancelled in 1946.
* was a launched in 1965. She was sold to
Ecuador in 1991 and renamed ''Moran Valverde''.
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Royal Navy ship names