HMS Pyramus

Last updated October 05, 2021

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pyramus, after the doomed lover from the writings of Ovid.

HMS Pyramus (1810) was a fifth rate 36-gun frigate built in Portsmouth and hulked in 1832-33 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sold and broken up in 1879. The information that the ship had been captured by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 is incorrect. (Source Dr. Ian A. Cameron, M.D, F.C.F.P., Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, August 1987, pp. 118–120; Also, the Cambridge Digital Library / University of Cambridge website)
HMS Pyramus (1897) was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser launched in 1897, and sold in 1920.

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HMS Pyramus was a fifth-rate 36-gun frigate launched at Portsmouth in 1810. During the Napoleonic Wars she captured some small privateers. She was hulked in 1832–1833 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The vessel was sold and broken up in 1879.

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