HMS Perseus

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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Perseus, after the Greek hero Perseus:

• {{HMS|Perseus|1776}} was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1776; she was the first vessel of the Royal Navy to be sheathed in copper.Chambers & Thomson (1870), Vol. 2, p.429. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1799 and was broken up in 1805.
• {{HMS|Perseus|1812}} was a 22-gun sixth rate launched in 1812. She was used for harbour service from 1818 and was broken up in 1850.
• {{HMS|Perseus|1861}} was a {{sclass|Camelion|sloop|0}} wooden screw sloop launched in 1861. She was used for harbour service from 1886, was renamed HMS Defiance II in 1904 and was probably sold in 1912.
• {{HMS|Perseus|1897}} was a {{sclass|Pelorus|cruiser|0}} protected cruiser launched in 1897 and sold for scrap in 1914.
• {{HMS|Perseus|N36}} was a {{sclass|Parthian|submarine}} launched in 1929 and sunk in 1941 during the Second World War.
• {{HMS|Perseus|R51}} was a {{sclass|Colossus|aircraft carrier}} launched in 1944 as HMS Edgar but renamed a few months later. She was scrapped in 1958.