HMS Hero

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HMS Hero is the name of six ships of the British Royal Navy:

  • HMS Hero (1759), a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810
  • HMS Hero (1803), a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1803 and wrecked in 1811
  • HMS Hero (1816), a 74-gun third-rate launched in September 1816, renamed Wellington in December, becoming the training ship Akbar in 1862 and broken up 1908
  • HMS Hero (1858), a screw-propelled 91-gun second-rate, launched in 1858 and sold 1871
  • HMS Hero (1885), a turret ship launched in 1885 and sunk as a target in 1908
  • HMS Hero (H99), a destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to Canada as Chaudiere in 1943, broken up 1946
  • There was a fictional Hero (F42) on which the popular and acclaimed Warship BBC television drama series was set during the 1970s

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