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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Olympus:
Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would "dread nought", i.e. "fear nothing". The 1906 ship was one of the Royal Navy's most famous vessels; battleships built after her were referred to as 'dreadnoughts', and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts.
Two submarines of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Astute for the characteristic of shrewdness and discernment.
Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amphion, after the Greek hero Amphion.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Victorious.
Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermione after Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology.
Sixteen vessels and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Phoenix, after the legendary phoenix bird.
Five ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Torbay, after Torbay on the southwest English coast.
Eight ships or submarines of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Anson, after Admiral George Anson:
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Adamant:
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Orpheus. Orpheus was the magical father of songs in Greek mythology.
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Onyx, after the mineral Onyx. Another was renamed before being launched:
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bonaventure, and another was planned:
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rainbow, after the rainbow, a common meteorological phenomenon:
HMS Olympus was an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Navy, and later in the Canadian Forces as a submarine trainer.
Two submarines of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vox, after the Latin for Voice:
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Porpoise, after the marine mammal, the Porpoise:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Windsor, after the English town of Windsor, Berkshire:
HMS Pandora was a British Parthian-class submarine commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes. On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast. In an extension of the Lend-Lease program, Pandora, along with three other British and French submarines, was overhauled at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the United States. She was sunk on 1 April 1942 by Junkers Ju 87 aircraft from Sturzkampfgeschwader 3 at the Valletta dockyard, Malta.