HMS Aurora

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Ten vessels of the British Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora, named after the Roman Goddess of the dawn.

• The first Aurora was the French Abenakise captured in 1757 and taken into the RN as a 32-gun 5th rate, and broken up in 1763.
• The second Aurora was a 32-gun 5th rate launched in 1766 and lost to a fire in 1770.
• The third Aurora was a 28-gun 6th rate launched in 1777 and sold 1814.
• The fourth Aurora was a 14-gun Indian sloop launched frm Bombay Dockyard in 1809 and captured by the French the following year.
• The fifth Aurora was originally the French Clorinde, captured in 1814 and taken into the Navy as 38-gun 5th rate, broken up in 1851.
• The sixth Aurora was a wooden screw frigate serving from 1861 to 1881.
• The seventh Aurora was an armoured cruiser launched in 1887 and sold in 1907.
• The eighth Aurora was a Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and under the command of the Royal Canadian Navy after 1920.
• The ninth Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1936, in service during World War II, and sold to China in 1948. Aurora was flagship of Admiral of the Fleet William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork during the Campaign to seize Narvik in April-June, 1940.
• The tenth and most recent Aurora (F10) was a Leander-class frigate which was commissioned in 1964 and sold in 1987.