HMS Echo
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A number of ships Royal Navy have been named HMS Echo, after the Echo of Greek mythology.
- HMS Echo was a 24-gun sixth-rate captured from the French in 1758 and sold in 1770.
- HMS Echo was the French Cerf-class brig-rigged cutter Hussard, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, launched in 1779 or '80 at Saint Malo.[1] Nonsuch, under the command of Sir James Wallace, captured her on 7 July 1780;[2] in February 1781 a gust of wind in Deadman's Bay, near Plymouth, caused her to wreck.[1][3]
- HMS Echo was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1782 and broken up in 1797.
- HMS Echo was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809.
- HMS Echo was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809 and broken up in 1817.
- HMS Echo was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a tugboat in 1830, and sold in 1885.
- HMS Echo was an E-class destroyer launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy as Navarinon from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
- HMS Echo was an Echo-class survey vessel launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
- HMS Echo is an Echo-class hydrographic survey ship, launched in 2002 and on active service as of 2014.
Other ships
In addition to these ships, a number of vessels have been taken up from trade and named Echo while in government service:
- Echo was a dockyard tank vessel previously named Luda. She was purchased in 1887 and sold in 1928.
- Echo was a whaler, previously named Barrowby. She was purchased in 1915 and sold in 1919.
- Echo was a trawler, hired between 1915 and 1919.
- Echo was a drifter, formerly a French minesweeper seized in 1940, renamed Resound later that year, and returned in 1946.
Citations
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Demerliac (1996), p.88, #581.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 12140. p. 6. 28 November 1780.
- ↑ Hepper (11994), p.61.
References
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- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
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