HMS Achates

Template:Use dmy dates Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Achates after Achates, a character in Roman mythology. A sixth was planned but never completed:

• was a 13-gun ship launched in 1573, hulked in 1590 and sold in 1605.
• was a 10-gun launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1810 off Guadeloupe.
• was a 16-gun brig-sloop, originally the French Milan, launched in 1807, that HMS Surveillante captured on 30 October 1809, and that was sold in 1818.
• was an launched in 1912 and sold in 1921.
• was an A-class destroyer launched in 1929 and sunk in 1942 by the German cruiser .
• was to have been an . She was launched in 1945, but was never completed, and was sunk as a target in 1950.