HMS Aetna
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Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Aetna after the volcano Etna.
- The first Aetna was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1691.
- The second Aetna was an 8-gun fire ship purchased in 1739.
- The third Aetna was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1776.
- The fourth Aetna was an 8-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1803. She served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, fighting at Copenhagen, the Basque Roads, and Baltimore. She was sold in 1816.
- The fifth Aetna, launched in 1824, was a 6-gun bomb vessel converted to a survey ship in 1826 and sold in 1846.
- The sixth Aetna was a 16-gun floating battery launched in 1856 and burned in 1873.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
[edit] See also
- HMS Etna.
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