Editing HMS Echo

[[File:HMS ECHO H87.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Echo'' (H87) under sail from Valletta, Malta  in 2016]]
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A number of ships [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Echo''''', after the [[Echo (mythology)|Echo]] of Greek mythology

*{{HMS|Echo|1758}} was a 24-gun [[sixth rate]] captured from France in 1758 and sold in 1770.
*{{HMS|Echo|1780}} was the French ''Cerf''-class brig-rigged [[Cutter (ship)|cutter]] ''Hussard'', of eighteen 6-pounder guns, launched in 1779 or '80 and captured on 7 July 1780
*{{HMS|Echo|1782}} was a 16-gun [[sloop-of-war|sloop]] launched in 1782 and broken up in 1797.
*{{HMS|Echo|1797}} was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809. She then became a whaler before she was wrecked in 1821  
*{{HMS|Echo|1809}} was an 18-gun {{sclass|Cruizer|brig-sloop}} launched in 1809 and broken up in 1817.
*{{HMS|Echo|1827}} was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a [[tugboat]] in 1830, and sold in 1885.
*{{HMS|Echo|H23}} was an [[E and F-class destroyer|E-class]] [[destroyer]] launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
*{{HMS|Echo|A70}} was an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship (1957)|0}} [[survey vessel]] launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
*{{HMS|Echo|H87}} is an {{sclass|Echo|survey ship (2002)|0}} hydrographic survey ship, launched in 2002 and decommissioned in June 2022

== Other ships ==

In addition to these ships, a number of vessels have been [[STUFT|taken up from trade]] and named ''Echo'' while in government service:

*''Echo'' was a dockyard tank vessel previously named ''Luda''. She was purchased in 1887 and sold in 1928.
*''Echo'' was a whaler, previously named ''Barrowby'', built in 1912 at Oslo, and of 182 tons (BRT). She was purchased in January 1915 at Durban, South Africa, one of several purchased there and then. During her naval service she was armed with one 12-pounder gun and two 3-pounders, and served in East Africa, particularly in operations in the Rufiji River in 1915. The Admiralty sold her on 6 March 1919 back to her owners, Irvin & Johnson, who returned her name to ''Barrowby''. 
*''Echo'' was a trawler launched in 1897, of 165 tons (BRT), and with Hull-reg H.367; she was hired between 1915 and 1921 and served as a [[boom defense vessel]]. 
*''Echo'' was a drifter, formerly a French [[minesweeper]] seized in 1940, renamed ''Resound'' later that year, and returned in 1946.
==Battle honours==
Ships named ''Echo'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:
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* [[Battle of the Plains of Abraham|Quebec]] 1759
* [[Invasion of Martinique (1762)|Martinique]] 1762
* [[Siege of Havana|Havana]] 1762
* [[Invasion of the Cape Colony|Cape of Good Hope]] 1795
* [[Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic]] 1939
* [[Norwegian campaign|Norway]] 1940
* [[Operation Rheinübung|''Bismarck'']] 1941
* [[Arctic convoys of World War II|Arctic]] 1941-43
* [[Malta convoys|Malta Convoys]] 1942
* [[Allied invasion of Sicily|Sicily]] 1943
* [[Operation Avalanche|Salerno]] 1943
* [[Dodecanese campaign|Aegean]] 1943
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