HMS Ceres
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Three ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ceres, after the goddess Ceres of Roman mythology.
Ships
- HMS Ceres was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1777, renamed HMS Raven in 1782, and captured by the French later that year.
- HMS Ceres was a 32-gun Fifth Rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1830.
- HMS Ceres was a C class light cruiser launched in 1917 and sold and broken up in 1946.
Shore establishments
- HMS Ceres was the Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire, between 1946 and 1958.
- HMS Ceres was a navy communications training centre in Leeds between 1984 and 1995.
[edit] See also
- Ceres Division is the Leeds-based satellite unit of Newcastle's Royal Naval Reserve Unit, HMS Caliope.
  |
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. |
