Seven ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
have been named HMS ''Hecla'', after the volcano
Hekla in
Iceland
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.
* was a 10-gun
bomb vessel purchased in 1797. She participated in the
Battle of Copenhagen (1801) and was broken up in 1813
* , launched in 1815, was a bomb vessel; she was later converted to an exploration ship and was commanded by
William Edward Parry
Sir William Edward Parry (19 December 1790 – 8 July 1855) was an Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his 1819–1820 expedition through the Parry Channel, probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Pass ...
during his exploration of the Arctic
* was a 4-gun wooden paddle
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 1839, run aground off Gibraltar on 23 January 1855 and sold in 1863
* was a torpedo boat carrier/depot ship purchased in 1878, modernised in 1912 and sold in 1926
* was a
destroyer depot ship launched in March 1940 and sunk off Casablanca on 12 November 1942 by the
* HMS ''Hecla'' was a
repair ship launched in 1944 and transferred to the
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
as
* , launched in 1964, was a sold in 1997
References
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Royal Navy ship names