Several 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 carried the name HMS ''Orestes'', after the mythical son of
Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; grc-gre, Ἀγαμέμνων ''Agamémnōn'') was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husb ...
, who avenged his father's murder:
* was a Dutch-built
brig-sloop
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
. She was captured from the Dutch in 1781, taken into Royal Navy service, and disappeared in the Indian Ocean in 1799.
* was a ship sloop of 14 guns, purchased in 1803; her crew burnt her in 1805 to prevent the enemy capturing her.
* was a of 16 guns, launched in 1805 and sold in 1817.
* was a sloop, launched on 31 May 1824 and converted into a coal depot in 1852.
* was a , launched on 18 August 1860 and scrapped in 1866.
* , an , launched in 1916 and sold for scrap in 1921.
* was an , sunk as a target in Seacat missile trials.
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Royal Navy ship names