HMS Echo

A number of ships Royal Navy have been named HMS Echo, after the Echo of Greek mythology.

• HMS Echo was a 24-gun sixth-rate captured from the French in 1758 and sold in 1770.
• HMS Echo was the French ship Hussard captured in 1780 and wrecked in 1791.
• HMS Echo was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1782 and broken up in 1797.
• HMS Echo was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809.
• HMS Echo was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809 and broken up in 1817.
• HMS Echo was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a tugboat in 1830, and sold in 1885.
• HMS Echo was an E-class destroyer launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy as Navarinon from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
• HMS Echo was an Echo-class survey vessel launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
• HMS Echo is an Echo-class hydrographic survey ship, launched in 2002 and on active service as of 2011.

Other ships

In addition to these ships, a number of vessels have been 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. She was purchased in 1915 and sold in 1919.
• Echo was a trawler, hired between 1915 and 1919.
• Echo was a drifter, formerly a French minesweeper seized in 1940, renamed Resound later that year, and returned in 1946.