HMS Pluto

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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pluto, after Pluto, a God of Roman mythology:

  • HMS Pluto was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian service in 1745 when she had been named Roman Emperor. She was sold in 1747.
  • HMS Pluto was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian service in 1756 when she had been named New Concord. She was sold in 1762.
  • HMS Pluto was previously HMS Tamar, a 16-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS Pluto when she was converted into a fire ship in 1777, and was captured by the French in 1780.
  • HMS Pluto was a 14-gun fire ship launched in 1782 and sold in 1817.
  • HMS Pluto was a wood paddle gunvessel launched in 1831 and broken up in 1861.
  • HMS Pluto was an Algerine class minesweeper launched in 1944 and sold in 1972.

A fictional HMS Pluto appears as the admiral's flagship in the Horatio Hornblower novel A Ship of the Line.

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