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Four [[ship]]s of the [[Royal Navy]] have been named '''HMS ''Charon''''', after [[Charon (mythology)|Charon]], the boatman to [[Hades]] across the [[River Styx]] in [[Greek Mythology]]:

* {{HMS|Charon|1778}} was a 44-gun [[fifth rate]] launched in 1778 and destroyed at the [[Siege of Yorktown|Battle of Yorktown]] in 1781.
* {{HMS|Charon|1783}} was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1783. She was on harbour service from 1795, used as a [[troopship]] from 1800 and was broken up in 1805. Because ''Charon'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the [[Naval General Service Medal (1847)|Naval General Service Medal]], which the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21077|pages=791–792|date=15 March 1850}}</ref>
* {{HMS|Charon|1827}} was a wooden paddle [[packet ship|packet]], formerly the [[General Post Office|GPO]] vessel ''Crusader''. She was launched in 1827, transferred to the navy in 1837 and used as a mail packet. She was sold to [[Trinity House]] in 1849.
* {{HMS|Charon|1856}} was an {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat (1855)|0}} wooden screw [[gunboat]] launched in 1856 and broken up in 1865.

==Sources==
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==References==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}

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