HMS Ariel

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ariel, possibly after the archangel Ariel in Judeo-Christian mysticism, but certainly influenced by Shakespeare's "airy spirit" of the same name:

• USS Ariel
  until 1781. She was lost in 1793.
• HMS Ariel (1781), a 16-gun sloop launched in 1781. laid up in 1792, offered for sale in 1795, and sold in 1802.
• HMS Ariel (1806), an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 and sold in 1816.
• Post Office packet in 1826, sailing from Falmouth. Cornwall. On 10 November 1828, she sailed from Falmouth under the command of Lieutenant John Figg (RN). In December a schooner saw her off Sable Island but was unable to warn her off and it was believed that she wrecked a few hours later. All aboard Ariel died.^[1]
• HMS Ariel (1837), a wooden paddle packet launched in 1822 and transferred to the Navy from the General Post Office in 1837, where she had been named Arrow. She was sold back into mercantile service in 1850.
• HMS Ariel (1854), a wood screw sloop launched in 1854 and sold in 1865.
• coastguard
  in 1877 and sold in 1889.
• D-class destroyer launched in 1897 and wrecked in 1907 at Malta
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• Acheron-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sunk in 1918 in the North Sea
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• HMS Ariel was a training establishment established at Warrington in 1942, then moved to Worthy Down in 1952. It moved to RNAS Lee-on-Solent, which had been named HMS Daedalus, but was renamed Ariel in 1959. It had a sister site called Seafield Park. The name reverted to HMS Daedalus in 1965.

Also:

• Bombay in 1809 for the naval arm of the British East India Company
  . She foundered on 12 March 1820.

References

• ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8
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• Pawlyn, Tony (2003). The Falmouth Packets, 1689–1851. Truran.
  ISBN 9781850221753
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