HMS Triton
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Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters:
- Tryton, originally French ship Triton, was a 42-gun fifth-rate captured in 1702 at the battle of Vigo Bay, and sold in 1709.
- Tryton was a sloop in commission in 1741.
- Tryton, launched in 1745, was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate. She was burned on 28 April 1758 to avoid capture by the French.
- Triton, launched in 1771, was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate. She served with Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood's fleet off Nevis on 25 January 1782. She was broken up in 1796.
- Triton, launched in 1796, was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate. She served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was broken up in 1820.
- Triton, launched in 1846, was an iron paddle sloop sold in 1872.
- Triton, launched in 1882, was a paddle survey vessel, from 1919 a school ship at Gravesend, and broken up in 1961.
- Triton, launched in 1937, was the lead ship of her class of submarine. She served in World War II and was sunk in 1940 in the Adriatic Sea, possibly by an Italian torpedo boat or a naval mine.
- In the early 2000s the Royal Navy operated an experimental trimaran named RV Triton, but that ship was not commissioned.
[edit] See also
- For U.S. Navy vessels of this name, see USS Triton.
- For U.S. Coast Guard vessels of this name, see USCGC Triton.
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
