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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}}{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pluto, after Pluto, a God of Roman mythology: - {{HMS|Pluto|1745}} was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian service in 1745 when she had been named Roman Emperor. She was sold in 1747.
- {{HMS|Pluto|1756}} was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian service in 1756 when she had been named New Concord. She was sold in 1762.
- HMS Pluto was previously {{HMS|Tamar|1758|6}}, a 16-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS Pluto when she was converted into a fire ship in 1777. The French privateer Duc de Chartres captured her on 30 November 1780.[1] Pluto{{'}}s subsequent fate is unknown.[2] The next year, {{HMS|Cumberland|1774|2}} captured the privateer, which the Royal Navy took into service as {{HMS|Duc de Chartres|1781|6}}.[3]
- {{HMS|Pluto|1782}} was a 14-gun fire ship launched in 1782 and sold in 1817.
- {{HMS|Pluto|1831}} was a wood paddle gunvessel launched in 1831 and broken up in 1861.
- {{HMS|Pluto|J446}} was an {{sclass-|Algerine|minesweeper}} launched in 1944 and sold in 1972.
A fictional HMS Pluto appears as the admiral's flagship in the Horatio Hornblower novel A Ship of the Line. See also- HMS Conundrum – drums used for laying a pipeline for Operation Pluto.
Citations1. ^Hepper (1994), p. 60.
2. ^Demerliac (1996), p. 146, #1213.
3. ^Demerliac (1996), p. 182, #1777.
References- Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). {{ISBN|2-906381-23-3}}
- {{cite book|last=Hepper|first=David J.|authorlink=|year=1994|title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859|publisher=Jean Boudriot|location=Rotherfield|isbn=0-948864-30-3}}
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