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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship: - {{HMS|Pandora|1779}}, a 24-gun {{sclass-|Porcupine|post ship|0}} sixth rate launched in 1779. She was sent to capture the Bounty mutineers in 1790 and ran aground in 1791 on the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.
- HMS Pandora (1780) was the French 14-gun brig {{ship||Pandour|1780|2}}, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS Pandora; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797.
- {{HMS|Pandora|1806}}, an 18-gun {{sclass-|Cruizer|brig-sloop}} launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1811 off the Skaw with the loss 27 men to exposure.[1]
- HMS Pandora, to have been another 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop. She was ordered in 1812, renamed HMS Lynx later that year, and was cancelled in 1818.
- {{HMS|Pandora|1813}}, an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813, converted to a ship-sloop in 1825, put up for sale in 1827 and sold in 1831.
- {{HMS|Pandora|1833}}, a 3-gun packet brig launched in 1833. She became a coastguard watchvessel in 1857 and was sold in 1862.
- {{HMS|Pandora|1859}}, a {{sclass-|Philomel|gunvessel|0}} wooden gunboat launched in 1859 and sold in 1875 for use as an Arctic expedition ship. She was sold to American explorers in 1878, renamed {{USS|Jeannette|1878|2}} and sunk by ice in 1881.
- HMS Pandora, a {{sclass-|Pearl|cruiser|0}} armoured cruiser launched in 1889, renamed {{HMS|Katoomba|1889|6}} in 1890 and sold in 1906.
- {{HMS|Pandora|1900}}, a {{sclass-|Pelorus|cruiser|0}} armoured cruiser launched in 1900 and scrapped in 1913.
- {{HMS|Pandora|1914}}, a depot ship, formerly the civilian Seti. She was renamed HMS Dolphin in 1924 and was sunk by a mine in 1939.
- {{HMS|Pandora|N42}}, a {{sclass-|Parthian|submarine}} launched in 1929 and sunk at Valletta, Malta in 1942. She was raised in 1943 and broken up in 1957.
See also- {{HMS|Pandour}}
- To the Ends of the Earth, a trilogy of novels by William Golding set aboard a fictitious HMS Pandora
Citations1. ^Hepper (1994), p. 135.
References- {{colledge}}
- {{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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