HMS Charon
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At least six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Charon, after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Greek Mythology
- HMS Charon of 1778 was a fourth-rate ship that was destroyed at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.
- HMS Charon of 1783 was a fifth-rate frigate during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, broken up in 1805.
- There have been four other HMS Charon's since 1805 all of which were small patrol craft.
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