Five ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Electra'', after the Greek mythological figure,
Electra
Electra (; grc, Ήλέκτρα) is one of the most popular mythological characters in tragedies.Evans (1970), p. 79 She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, '' Electra'' by Sophocles and '' Electra'' by Euripides. She is also the centra ...
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* was a 16-gun
brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1808.
* was a 16-gun brig-sloop, previously the French ''Espiegle''. She was captured in 1808 by
HMS ''Sybille'' and was sold in 1816.
* was an 18-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1837 and sold in 1862.
* was a launched in 1896 and reclassified as a
C-class destroyer in 1913. She was sold for scrapping in 1920.
* was an
E-class destroyer launched in 1934 and sunk in 1942.
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Royal Navy ship names