HMS Ceres

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

Ships

• HMS Ceres was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1777 that the French frigate Iphigénie captured in December 1778 off Saint Lucia. The British recaptured her in April 1782 and renamed her HMS Raven. The French captured her in December 1782 and renamed her Ceres. They sold her at Brest in 1791.^[1]
• HMS Ceres was a 32-gun Fifth Rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1830. Because Ceres served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.^[2]
• HMS Ceres was a C class light cruiser launched in 1917 and sold and broken up in 1946.

Shore establishments

• HMS Ceres was the Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire, between 1946 and 1958.
• HMS Ceres was a navy communications training centre in Leeds between 1984 and 1995.

See also

• Ceres Division is the Leeds-based satellite unit of Newcastle's Royal Naval Reserve Unit, HMS Caliope.

Citations

References

• Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3