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HMS Hero

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Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero:

  • Hero, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810
  • Hero, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1803 and wrecked in 1811
  • Hero, a 74-gun third-rate launched in September 1816, renamed Wellington in December, becoming the training ship Akbar in 1862 and broken up 1908
  • Hero, a screw-propelled 91-gun second-rate, launched in 1858 and sold 1871
  • Hero, a turret ship launched in 1885 and sunk as a target in 1908
  • Hero, a destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to Canada as Chaudiere in 1943, broken up 1946

The 1970s BBC television drama series Warship was set aboard a fictional Royal Navy frigate, HMS Hero (F42)

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