HMS Orion

HMS Orion has been the name of several naval ships from different countries.

British Navy

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology:

• HMS Orion (1787) was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1787 and broken up in 1814.
• HMS Orion (1854) was an 80-gun second rate screw ship launched in 1854 and broken up in 1867.
• HMS Orion (1879) was an armoured corvette built for the Ottoman Empire but purchased by the Royal Navy in 1878 and launched in 1879. She was converted to a depot ship and renamed HMS Orontes in 1909, and was sold in 1913.
• HMS Orion was to have been an armoured cruiser. She was projected in 1904 but never built.
• HMS Orion (1910) was an Orion-class battleship launched in 1910 and sold in 1922.
• HMS Orion (85) was a Leander-class light cruiser launched in 1932 and sold in 1949.
• HMS Orion (1940) was a French submarine seized in 1940, laid up until 1943 and then broken up.

Battle honours

(First)

• First of June 1794
• Groix Island 1795
• St Vincent 1797
• Nile 1801
• Trafalgar 1805

(Second)

• Baltic 1855

(Fifth)

• Jutland 1916

(Sixth)

• Atlantic 1939
• Calabria 1940
• Mediterranean 1940-43-44
• Malta Convoys 1941
• Matapan 1941
• Greece 1941
• Crete 1941
• Sicily 1943
• Salerno 1943
• Aegean 1944
• Anzio 1944
• Normandy 1944
• South France 1944

Swedish Navy

• HSwMS Orion, in Sweden called HMS Orion, was a torpedo boat of the Swedish Navy, commissioned in 1903.
• HSwMS Orion (A201), in Sweden called HMS Orion, is a signals intelligence gathering vessel of the Swedish Navy, operated on behalf of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment.

See also

• HMAS Orion was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy launched in 1974 and decommissioned and laid up in 1996.
• Orion (ship), various ships named "Orion"

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 
• A.E. Weightman : Crests and Badges of H.M. Ships (1957) ISBN (none)
• KnowledgeRush.com: HMS Orion