HMS Bellona

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bellona after Bellona, the goddess of war in Roman mythology:

• was a 30-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer Bellone. She was captured in 1747, and sold in 1749.
• was a 74-gun third rate, launched in 1760 and broken up in 1814.
• Bellona, possibly a hired armed vessel or armed ship, was lost at the mouth of the Elbe circa December 1779. She had been escorting a convoy from Hull to Hamburg. Several of the merchantmen in the convoy were lost too.
• was a 3-gun vessel purchased in 1794. She was used as a mud boat from 1799 and was broken up in 1805.
• was a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer . She was captured in 1806, renamed HMS Blanche in 1809, and was broken up in 1814.
• HMS Bellona was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812 as . She was renamed HMS Bellona in 1818, used for harbour service from 1840 and was broken up in 1868.
• was a third-class cruiser launched in 1890 and sold in 1906.
• was a scout cruiser launched in 1909 and sold in 1921.
• was a modified Dido-class light cruiser launched in 1942, on loan to the Royal New Zealand Navy from 1948 to 1956, and broken up in 1959.

See also

• , several merchant vessels by that name