HMS Aurora

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn.


 * HMS Aurora (1757) was a 36-gun fifth rate, formerly the French Abenakise. She was captured in 1757 and broken up in 1763.
 * HMS Aurora (1766) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1766, sailed September 1769 for East Indies, lost without a trace, presumably from fire or storm, in the Indian Ocean in January 1770.
 * HMS Aurora (1777) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1777 and sold in 1814.
 * HMS Aurore (1793) was a French Navy 32-gun frigate handed over to the British at the capture of Toulon in 1793. She became a prison ship in 1799, and was broken up in 1803.
 * HMS Aurora (1814) was a 38-gun fifth rate, originally the FRENCH FRIGATE Clorinde. She was captured in 1814 and broken up in 1851.
 * HMS Aurora (1861) was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1861 and broken up in 1881.
 * HMS Aurora (1887) was an Orlando-class cruiser armoured cruiser launched in 1887 and sold in 1907.
 * HMS Aurora (1913) was an Arethusa-class cruiser light cruiser launched in 1913. She was briefly transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1920 and was broken up in 1927.
 * HMS Aurora (12) was an Arethusa-class cruiser light cruiser launched in 1936. She was sold to The Republic of China in 1948, was sunk in 1950 and salvaged in 1951, hulked and then scrapped by 1960.
 * HMS Aurora (F10) was a Leander-class frigate launched in 1962 and broken up in 1990.

Battle honours
Ships named Aurora have earned the following battle honours:


 * St. Lucia 1778
 * Minorca 1798
 * Guadeloupe 1810
 * China 1900
 * Dogger Bank 1915
 * Bismarck 1941
 * Mediterranean 1941–43
 * Malta Convoys 1941
 * North Africa 1942–43
 * Sicily 1943
 * Salerno 1943
 * Aegean 1943–44
 * South France 1944