Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS ''Hero'':
* , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed ''Rochester'' in 1800, and broken up 1810
* , a 74-gun third rate launched in 1803 and wrecked on 25 December 1811, with the loss of all her crew, inside the northern Haaks about five or six miles from the
Texel
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* , a 74-gun third rate launched in September 1816, renamed ''Wellington'' in December, becoming the training ship ''Akbar'' in 1862 and broken up 1908
* , a screw-propelled 91-gun second rate, launched in 1858 and sold 1871. This was the vessel in which the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) sailed on his tour of Canada and the United States in 1860
* , a turret ship launched in 1885 and sunk as a target in 1908
* , an
H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to Canada as HMCS ''Chaudiere'' in 1943, broken up 1946
See also
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Hero (pinnace)
Hero is a steam-powered pinnace, a small boat of the type used, for example, as a tender to larger vessels, believed to have been built as an electric launch, by Andrews of Maidenhead, England in 1895, with the name ''Avondale''.
She is made fr ...
, a steam-powered boat
* There were also at least three
hired armed vessels that bore the name ''Hero''. There were two
cutters and one
lugger
A lugger is a sailing vessel defined by its rig, using the lug sail on all of its one or several masts. They were widely used as working craft, particularly off the coasts of France, England, Ireland and Scotland. Luggers varied extensively ...
.
* The 1970s BBC television drama series
''Warship'' was set aboard a fictional Royal Navy , HMS ''Hero''.
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Royal Navy ship names