Eleven
ship
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s of the British
Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Hector'', named after the
Trojan hero
Hector in the
Iliad.
* The first was a 22-gun ship sold in 1656.
* The second was a 30-gun ship sold in 1657.
* The third was a 22-gun ship sunk by the
Dutch Navy in 1665.
* The fourth was a 44-gun
fourth rate launched in 1703 and broken up in 1742.
* The fifth was another 44-gun fourth rate sold in 1762.
* The sixth was
cutter
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Tools
* Bolt cutter
* Box cutter, aka Stanley knife, a form of utility knife
* Cigar cutter
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* Glass cutter
* Meat cutter
* Milling cutter
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purchased in 1763 and sold in 1773.
* The seventh was a 74-gun
third rate launched at
Deptford in 1774 and converted to a
prison ship in 1808.
* The eighth was a 74-gun third rate captured from
France in April 1782 that foundered in October.
* The ninth was the first ship of her class of iron steam propelled
battleship
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s and launched in 1862, and scrapped in 1905.
* The tenth was a requisitioned merchant ship used as a kite balloon ship in the Dardanelles campaign (1915), and returned to civil service in 1918.
* The eleventh was an
armed merchant cruiser
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that served in World War II and was damaged beyond repair by
Japan
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ese aircraft in 1942.
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Royal Navy ship names