HMS Egeria

Last updated December 23, 2019

Three Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Egeria:

The first HMS Egeria (1807) was an 18-gun (later 26-gun) Cormorant-class ship-sloop launched at Bridport in 1807 and broken up in 1864.
The second HMS Egeria (1873) was a 4-gun Fantome-class screw composite sloop launched at Pembroke in 1873 and sold in 1911.
The third HMS Egeria (A72) was an Echo-class survey ship, built by William Weatherhead & Sons, Cockenzie, commissioned 1959 and sold in 1985.

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HMS Egeria was a 4-gun screw sloop of the Fantome class launched at Pembroke on 1 November 1873. She was named after Egeria, a water nymph of Roman mythology, and was the second ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. After a busy career in the East Indies, Pacific, Australia and Canada, she was sold for breaking in 1914 and was burnt at Burrard Inlet in British Columbia.

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