HMS Hebe
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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hebe, after the Greek goddess Hebe.
- HMS Hebe was a French 38-gun frigate captured in 1782, renamed Blonde in 1805, and broken up in 1811.
- HMS Hebe was a 32-gun fifth rate in service from 1804 to 1813.
- HMS Hebe was a 46-gun Leda-class frigate launched in 1826, made a receiving ship in 1839, hulked in 1861, and broken up 1873.
- HMS Hebe was an Alarm-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper in 1909, and sold 1919.
- HMS Hebe was a Halcyon-class minesweeper launched in 1936 and sunk by a mine off Bari in November 1943.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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