Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters:
HMS Tryton (1702) was a 42-gun fifth rate, originally the French ship Triton, captured by the British in 1702 at the Battle of Vigo Bay, and sold in 1709.
HMS Tryton (1741) was a sloop in commission in 1741.
HMS Tryton (1745) was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1745 and burned on 28 April 1758 to avoid capture by the French.
HMS Triton (1773) was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1773. She served with Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood's fleet off Nevis on 25 January 1782. She was broken up in 1796.
HMS Triton (1796) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1796. She served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was broken up in 1820.
HMS Triton (1846) was an iron paddle sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1872.
HMS Triton (1882) was a paddle survey vessel launched in 1882. She was a school ship at Gravesend from 1919, and was broken up in 1961.
HMS Triton (N15) was a T-class submarine launched in 1937 and sunk in 1940.
been named HMSTriton or HMS Tryton, after Triton, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the personification of the roaring waters: HMS Tryton (1702)...
Look up Triton, triton, or tritons in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Triton commonly refers to: Triton (mythology), a Greek god Triton (moon), a satellite...
[citation needed] USCGC Triton (WPC-116), was a patrol boat commissioned in 1934 and served until 1967 USS TritonHMSTriton This article includes a list...
war on Germany, five submarines of the Second Flotilla, including HMSTriton and HMS Oxley, were ordered to patrol on the Obrestad line off Norway on 24...
1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMSTriton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise 1746 HMS Siren...
moved to the fifth-rate HMS Shannon in early 1796, to the fifth-rate HMSTriton in September 1796 and to the fifth-rate HMS Seahorse in March 1797. He...
The Research Vessel Triton is a trimaran vessel owned by Gardline Marine Sciences Limited and a former prototype British warship demonstrator for the UK's...
Date Cause HMS Oxley 58° 30'N, 5° 30'E, off Stavanger, Norway 10 September 1939 Sunk by friendly fire from British submarine HMSTritonHMS Seahorse (98S)...
(1952–1965) HMS Gleaner (1983–2018) HMS Merlin (1666–1698), the Navy's first hydrographic survey vessel HMS Hecate (1839–65) HMS Myrmidon (1867–88) HMSTriton HMS Fantome...
accompanied by three 98-gun ships: HMS Barfleur (commanded by Hood), HMS Prince George, and HMS Duke, plus the 90-gun HMS Namur. The remaining 31 ships were...
summoned to the Admiralty by Lord Spencer and given command of a brig, HMSTriton, with orders to take sealed dispatches to the admirals commanding the...
as captain of HMSTriton in the similar Action of 16 October 1799. Medea was taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Iphigenia (later renamed HMS Imperieuse),...
the evening the British submarine HMSTriton attacked the flotilla; identifying Lützow as the main threat, Triton fired a full spread of ten torpedoes...
spiders) dredged by HMSTriton in the Faroe Channel in 1882 Nautical chart of Yarmouth and Lowestoft Roads surveyed by Tizard in HMSTriton in 1885 Surveying...
54-gun ship was captured on 19 August by the Royal Navy's HMS Chatham, HMS Medway and HMSTriton. HMS Blackwall ( Royal Navy): The 50-gun fourth rate was captured...
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