HMS Orontes
Not to be confused with
SS Orontes
or
RMS Orontes
.
Four ships of the
Royal Navy
have borne the name
HMS
Orontes
:
HMS
Orontes
(1813)
was a 36-gun
fifth rate
, built as HMS
Brilliant
but renamed HMS
Orontes
in 1812 and launched in 1813. She was broken up in 1817.
HMS
Orontes
(1862)
was an iron screw
troopship
launched in 1862 and sold for breaking up in 1893.
HMS
Orontes
was the former
Swiftsure
-class
ironclad
HMS
Swiftsure
.
Swiftsure
was renamed
Orontes
when reduced to harbour service in 1904, and was sold in 1908.
HMS
Orontes
was a depot ship, the former
Belleisle
-class
ironclad
HMS
Orion
.
Orion
was renamed
Orontes
in 1909 and sold in 1913.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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list of ships
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