HMS Ariel

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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ariel, possibly after the archangel Ariel in Judeo-Christian mysticism:

• HMS Ariel was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1777, captured by the French ship Amazone in 1779 and lent to the Americans as USS Ariel until 1781. She was lost in 1793.
• HMS Ariel was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1781 and sold in 1802.
• HMS Ariel was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 and sold in 1816.
• HMS Ariel was a 14-gun brig launched in Bombay in 1809 and foundered in 1820.
• HMS Ariel was a Cherokee class brig-sloop launched in 1820 and wrecked in 1828 on Sable Island.
• HMS Ariel was a wooden paddle packet launched in 1822 and transferred to the Navy from the General Post Office in 1837, where she had been named Arrow. She was sold back into mercantile service in 1850.
• HMS Ariel was a wood screw sloop launched in 1854 and sold in 1865.
• HMS Ariel was a second class gunboat launched in 1873, transferred to the coastguard in 1877 and sold in 1889.
• HMS Ariel was a D class destroyer launched in 1897 and wrecked in 1907 at Malta.
• HMS Ariel was an Acheron class destroyer launched in 1911 and sunk in 1918 in the North Sea.

Ariel has also been the name of a naval shore establishment:

• HMS Ariel was the original name for the shore-based naval station HMS Daedalus

[edit] References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.