HMS Prometheus
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Several ships of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Prometheus.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Prometheus.
- HMS PrometheusHMS Prometheus (1898)HMS Prometheus was a Pelorus class cruiser of the Royal Navy. There were eleven "Third class" protected cruisers in the class, which was designed by Sir William White...
was a Pelorus-classPelorus class cruiserThe Pelorus class cruiser was a "third-class" protected cruiser class of eleven Royal Navy warships designed by Sir William White , based on the earlier Pearl class cruisers. They were ordered in 1893 under the Spencer Program, and laid down 1896–1900...
protected cruiser launched in 1898, and sold in 1914. - HMS Prometheus, which was involved an action in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic in 1809, see HMS CerberusHMS Cerberus (1794)HMS Cerberus was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and even briefly in the Baltic against the Russians. She participated in one boat action that won for her crew a clasp to...
or HMS MinotaurHMS Minotaur (1793)HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 November 1793 at Woolwich. She was named after the mythological bull-headed monster of Crete.-Career:...
. She was used for harbour service from 1819, renamed HMS VeteranHMS VeteranThree ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Veteran: was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1787 and broken up in 1816....
(fireship) in 1839 and broken up in 1852.