Several ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Naiad'' after a
Greek mythological figure, the
Naiad
In Greek mythology, the naiads (; grc-gre, ναϊάδες, naïádes) are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water.
They are distinct from river gods, who ...
* , formerly the , which , a 64-gun
third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...
, captured off
Trincomalee on the night of 11 April 1783. ''Naïade'' was armed with eighteen to twenty 8-pounder guns and ten
swivel gun
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s and had a crew of 160 men. She had a
burthen
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of 640 tons, and measured 126'8" (deck) by 33'8½" (breadth) by 10'2" (hold depth). The British armed her with twenty-two 12-pounder guns, and two 18-pounder and six 12-pounder
carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and was used from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Its main func ...
, but never commissioned her; they then sold her 17 August 1784.
[Demerliac (1996), p.73, #462.]
* , a fifth-rate frigate launched in 1797 and commissioned in 1798. She was paid off in 1826 and then served for many years in Latin America as a depot ship, first for the Royal Navy and then for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was broken up in 1898.
* , an
''Apollo''-class second class protected cruiser launched in 1890 and sold in 1922.
* , a launched in 1939 and torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat on 11 March 1942.
* , a launched in 1963 and decommissioned in 1987.
See also
*
Citations
References
*
*Demerliac, Alain (1996) ''La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792''. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA).
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Royal Navy ship names