HMS Orion

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology:

• Template:HMS was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1787 and broken up in 1814.
• Template:HMS was an 80-gun second-rate screw ship launched in 1854 and broken up in 1867.
• Template:HMS 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.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass launched in 1910 and sold in 1922.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass 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

• First of June 1794
• 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

• Template:HSwMS, two ships of the Swedish Navy
• Template:HMAS was an Template:Sclass of the Royal Australian Navy launched in 1974 and decommissioned and laid up in 1996.
• Template:Ship, various ships named Orion

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: {{#if:|The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy|The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy}}
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8

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