Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Aetna (historically spelled Ætna) or HMS Etna, after the volcano Etna:
HMS Aetna (1691) was an 8-gun fireship launched in 1691 and captured by the French in 1697.
HMS Aetna (1739) was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1739 and sold in 1746.
HMS Etna (1756) was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1756. She was converted into a sloop later that year and was sold in 1763.
HMS Etna (1771) was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1771. She was renamed HMS Scorpion and converted into a sloop later that year and was sold in 1780.
HMS Aetna (1776) was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1776 and broken up in 1784.
HMS Aetna (or Etna) was a French 20-gun Etna-class corvette that HMS Melampus and HMS Childers captured from the French in 1796. The Royal Navy rated her as a sixth rate and renamed her HMS Cormorant in 1797; she was wrecked in 1800.
HMS Aetna (1803) was the mercantile Success launched in 1803 at Littlehampton. The Admiralty purchased here in 1803 to convert her to a Royal Navy an 8-gun bomb vessel. The Navy sold her in 1816 and she returned to mercantile service under her original name. She was wrecked in 1823.
HMS Aetna (1824) was a 6-gun bomb vessel launched in 1824. She was converted to a survey ship in 1826 and was sold in 1846.
HMS Aetna (1855) was a 14-gun Aetna-class ironclad screw floating battery. She was laid down in 1854, but caught fire and launched herself in 1855. She was broken up on the riverbank.
HMS Aetna (1856) was a 16-gun lengthened Aetna-class screw ironclad floating battery launched in 1856. She was used for harbour service from 1866, was burnt out in 1873 and broken up in 1874.
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Aetna (1883) was a Malta-class 530-ton iron paddle dockyard tug built by Laird Brothers, Birkenhead. She was scrapped in 1929.
of the Royal Navy have been named HMSAetna (historically spelled Ætna) or HMS Etna, after the volcano Etna: HMSAetna (1691) was an 8-gun fireship launched...
brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1815. HMS Kite (1826) was a wooden paddle vessel, previously the GPO ship Aetna. She was launched in 1826, transferred...
asteroid Mount Etna, Queensland, a Mountain and a National Park in Australia HMSAetna, a list of ships including those named Etna Etna-class corvette, six sailing...
1830. The second HMS Glatton (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864. The third HMS Glatton (1871) was...
rockets (from rocket vessel HMS Erebus) and mortar shells (from bomb vessels Terror, Volcano, Meteor, Devastation, and Aetna). After an initial exchange...
Her fate is unknown. HMS Meteor (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1861. HMS Meteor (1914) was an Thornycroft...
England and in December 1803 was appointed to command of the bomb vessel Aetna, to serve in the Mediterranean. On 22 October 1805, following the victory...
retro-fitted with propellers, beginning with HMS Horatio. Another hint of changes to come was seen in the launch of HMSAetna, the first armour-plated vessel to...
surviving claimants. HMS Trusty (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1864 HMS Trusty (1866) was a tugboat...
1755. As a lieutenant he served either in the sloop-of-war HMS Hunter or the bomb ketch HMSAetna although as his brother Edmund was serving at almost exactly...
naval bases, although his letter was ignored. On 6 April the bomb vessel HMSAetna, equipped with a heavy mortar, arrived with William Congreve, inventor...
May 1778, he was given command of the bomb vessel HMSAetna at that time and of the second-rate HMS Prince George the following year. Promoted to captain...
College in 1828; and embarked, 13 August 1830, as a Volunteer, on board HMSAetna surveying vessel, under the command of Captain Edward Belcher. He afterwards...
ship Etna (A 5326), a replenishment ship that entered service in 1998 HMSAetna, British ships Etna-class corvette, Napoleonic corvettes of France This...
entered service in the Mediterranean aboard HMS Rattlesnake and was first lieutenant of the bomb vessel HMSAetna at the attack on Morea Castle during the...
in 1801. Thunder, Vesuvius, Aetna, and Zebra participated in the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. Thunder and Aetna additionally participated in...
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