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HMS Juno

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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Juno after the Roman goddess Juno:

  • HMS Juno was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1757. She was burnt at Rhode Island in 1778 to prevent her capture.
  • HMS Juno was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth rate launched in 1780 and broken up in 1811.
  • HMS Juno was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1844. She was renamed HMS Mariner in 1878, and became a training ship named HMS Atalanta later that year. She foundered in the Atlantic in 1880.
  • HMS Juno was a wooden screw corvette launched in 1867 and sold in 1887.
  • HMS Juno was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser launched in 1895 and sold in 1920.
  • PS Juno was a paddle ship launched in 1898 in shipyard of "Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Co.", ex. "J. & G. Thomson Ltd.".
  • HMS Juno was a J-class destroyer launched in 1938 and sunk in an air attack off Crete in 1941.
  • HMS Juno was a Leander-class frigate launched in 1965 and scrapped in 1994.
  • References

    HMS Juno Wikipedia