HMS Psyche
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Five ships of the Royal Navy
have been named HMS Psyche. Two more were planned, but never completed.
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have been named HMS Psyche. Two more were planned, but never completed.
- HMS PsycheFrench frigate Psyché (1804)Psyché was a 36-gun vessel built between February 1798 and 1799 at Basse-Indre as a privateer. As a privateer she had an inconclusive but bloody encounter with HMS Wilhelmina of the Royal Navy, commanded by Commander Henry Lambert, off the Indian coast in April 1804. The French then brought her...
was a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1805 and sold in 1812. - HMS Psyche was to have been a 32-gun fifth rate. Frames for her construction were sent to Canada but she was not assembled and the parts were ordered to be sold in 1814, though they may have been incorporated in the next . was to have been a 56-gun fourth rate assembled in Canada. She was never completed and the hulk was sold in 1837. was a wooden paddle despatch vessel launched in 1862. She was wrecked in 1870, with the wreck being destroyed in 1871. was a coastguard vessel purchased in 1878 and sold in 1884.
- HMS Psyche was a Pearl-classPearl class cruiserThe Pearl-class cruiser was a class of nine third-class cruisers designed by Sir William White, five of which were paid for by Australia under the terms of the Imperial Defence Act of 1887 to serve in Australian waters.-Design:...
protected cruiserProtected cruiserThe protected cruiser is a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from shrapnel caused by exploding shells above...
launched in 1889 and renamed HMS Ringaromma in 1890. She was sold in 1906. - HMS Psyche 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. She was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS PsycheHMAS PsycheHMAS Psyche was a Pelorus class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy at the end of the 19th century. She was transferred to the fledgling Royal Australian Navy in 1912.-Design and construction:...
in 1915 and was sold in 1922.