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HMS Orion






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Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter OrionofGreek mythology:

  • HMS Orion (1854) was an 80-gun second-rate screw ship launched in 1854 and broken up in 1867.
  • HMS Orion (1879) was an armoured corvette built for the Ottoman Empire but purchased by the Royal Navy in 1878 and launched in 1879. She was converted to a depot ship and renamed HMS Orontes in 1909, and was sold in 1913.
  • HMS Orion was to have been an armoured cruiser. She was projected in 1904 but never built.
  • HMS Orion (1910) was an Orion-class battleship launched in 1910 and sold in 1922.
  • HMS Orion (85) was a Leander-class light cruiser launched in 1932 and sold in 1949.
  • Orion was a French submarine seized in 1940, laid up until 1943 and then broken up.

    • Battle honours[edit]

  • Groix Island 1795
  • St Vincent 1797
  • Nile 1801
  • Trafalgar 1805
  • Baltic 1855
  • Jutland 1916
  • Atlantic 1939
  • Calabria 1940
  • Mediterranean 1940-44
  • Malta Convoys 1941
  • Matapan 1941
  • Greece 1941
  • Crete 1941
  • Sicily 1943
  • Salerno 1943
  • Aegean 1944
  • Anzio 1944
  • Normandy 1944
  • South France 1944

    • See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
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