HMS Pomone

Four Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS Pomone, with another cancelled before launch:

• HMS Pomone (1794), a 44-gun French frigate captured on 23 April 1794 and broken up in 1802.
• HMS Pomone (1805), a 38-gun frigate built in 1805 and wrecked in 1811.
• HMS Pomone, 38-gun French frigate Astrée captured on 6 December 1810; renamed Pomone in 1811 and paid off in 1815.
• HMS Pomone, a 51-gun Bristol-class screw frigate, ordered in 1860 but cancelled in 1863 before being launched.
• HMS Pomone (1897), a Pelorus-class cruiser built in 1897 and scrapped in 1922.

See also

• HMS Pomona
• French ship Pomone

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.