Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero:
, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810., a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1803 and wrecked on 25 December 1811, with the loss of all her crew, inside the northern Haaks about five or six miles from the Texel

Texel

Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark...

., a 74-gun third-rate launched in September 1816, renamed Wellington in December, becoming the training ship Akbar in 1862 and broken up 1908., a screw-propelled 91-gun second-rate, launched in 1858 and sold 1871., a turret ship launched in 1885 and sunk as a target in 1908., a destroyer launched in 1936 and transferred to Canada as Chaudiere in 1943, broken up 1946.

The 1970s BBC television drama series Warship

Warship (TV series)

Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. It was also dubbed into Dutch and broadcast in the Netherlands as Alle hens...

 was set aboard a fictional Royal Navy frigate, HMS Hero (F42)

There were also at least three Hired armed vessels

Hired armed vessels

right|thumb|250px|Armed cutter, etching in the [[National Maritime Museum]], [[Greenwich]]During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels...

 that bore the name Hero. There were two cutters

Hired armed cutter Hero

Two vessels served the Royal Navy as the Hired armed cutter Hero. Under the command of Lieutenant John Reynolds, the second hired armed cutter Hero captured some 30 merchantmen during the Gunboat War before the Royal Navy returned her to her owners...

 and one lugger.