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HMS Parthian

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Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Parthian, after the inhabitants of the Parthian Empire. Another was planned but never completed:

  • HMS Parthian was a 10-gun Cherokee class brig-sloop launched in 1808 and wrecked on the coast of Egypt on 15 May 1828.
  • HMS Parthian was to have been a wooden screw gunvessel ordered in 1846 and cancelled in 1849.
  • HMS Parthian was a wooden gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
  • HMS Parthian was an M class destroyer launched in 1916 and sold for scrapping in 1921.
  • HMS Parthian was a Parthian class submarine launched in 1929, and sunk in 1943.

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    HMS Parthian Wikipedia
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