HMS Ceres

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Three ships and two shore bases of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Ceres, after the goddess Ceres of Roman mythology.

  • The first Ceres was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1777, renamed Raven in July 1782, and captured by the French in December of that year.
  • The second Ceres was a 32-gun fifth-rate launched in 1781 and broken up 1830.
  • The third Ceres was a light cruiser launched 1917, sold and broken up in 1946.
  • The fourth HMS Ceres was the Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire, closed in 1958 when training was transferred to HMS Pembroke.
  • Ceres Division is the Leeds-based satellite unit of Nottingham's Unit, HMS Sherwood in the Royal Naval Reserve.
Disambiguation notice This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
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