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Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amphion, after the Greek hero Amphion.

  • HMS Amphion (1780), launched in 1780, was a 32-gun fifth-rate.
  • HMS Amphion (1798), launched in 1798, was a 32-gun fifth-rate.
  • HMS Amphion (1846), launched in 1846, was a wooden-hulled screw frigate.
  • HMS Amphion (1883), launched in 1883, was a Leander-class protected cruiser.
  • HMS Amphion (1911), launched in 1911, was an Active-class scout cruiser, she was sunk on the 6 August 1914 becoming the first Royal Navy ship to be sunk in World War I.[1]
  • HMS Amphion, launched in 1934, was a Leander-class light cruiser transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and renamed HMAS Perth.
  • HMS Amphion (P439), launched in 1944, was the name ship of her class of submarines. (Before launch she swapped names with HMS Anchorite.)
  1. ^ "The First + Last Commonwealth Casualties".

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HMS Amphion

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borne the name HMS Amphion, after the Greek hero Amphion. HMS Amphion (1780), launched in 1780, was a 32-gun fifth-rate. HMS Amphion (1798), launched...

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HMS Victory

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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...

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HMS Ambuscade

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fifth rate, but was renamed HMS Amphion before finally being launched in 1846 as the first Royal Navy steam-powered frigate. HMS Ambuscade (1913), launched...

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William Hoste

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a small detachment of frigates, comprising HMS Amphion, HMS Active (36 guns), HMS Volage (22 guns) and HMS Cerberus (32 guns), operations continued and...

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Francis Farewell

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served aboard HMS Amphion, and when that vessel was decommissioned in 1811, Farewell was first transferred to HMS Thisbe and then to HMS Bacchante. Farewell...

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Bicycle kick

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belief that the Peruvian position was based on anti-Chilean sentiment. HMS Amphion arrived at Callao from Panama, and would proceed for repairs to Valparaiso...

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Samuel Sutton

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large cargo of specie. The British ships, consisting of Amphion, HMS Indefatigable, HMS Lively and HMS Medusa, sighted the Spanish early on the morning of...

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Steam frigate

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launched its first screw frigate, HMS Amphion, it already had two screw sloops in commission. The 9 gun sloop HMS Rattler, launched in 1843, was designed...

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HMS Ardent

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Jutland in 1916. HMS Ardent (H41) was an A-class destroyer launched in 1929 and sunk in 1940. HMS Ardent (P437) was to have been an Amphion-class submarine...

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Frederic Charles Dreyer

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in HMS Hercules (flagship of the 2nd Division of the Home Fleet). On Jellicoe's advice, Dreyer was given command of the scout cruiser HMS Amphion in 1913...

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Robert Falcon Scott

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career, related to the period 1889–1890 when Scott was a lieutenant on HMS Amphion. According to Huntford, Scott "disappears from naval records" for eight...

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HMAS Perth

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modified Leander-class light cruiser. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Amphion in 1936, she was sold to the RAN three years later. The ship served until...

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Action of 5 October 1804

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Cadiz on 29 September and was joined on 2 October by HMS Lively, and by HMS Medusa and HMS Amphion the day after. In line abreast they patrolled the approaches...

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USS Liberty

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USS Fessenden Unknown date: USS Oracle Other incidents 4 Jan: Bluebird K7 9 Jan: HMS Amphion 11 Jan: Audacity 14 Mar: Kolno 8 Jun: USS Liberty 29 Jul: USS Forrestal...

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