HMS Parthian

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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Parthian. The Parthian Empire dominated Persia for nearly five hundred years.

• Parthian, 10, a Cherokee class brig sloop launched in 1808 and wrecked on the coast of Egypt in 1828.
• Parthian, a wooden screw gunvessel ordered from Deptford Dockyard in 1846 and cancelled in 1849.
• Parthian, a wooden gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
• Parthian, an M class destroyer launched in 1916 and sold for scrapping in 1921.
• Parthian, the lead boat in a class of 6 submarines, launched in 1929, and sunk with all hands in 1943, probably by a naval mine.

[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. 

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