HMS Endymion

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Endymion after the Greek hero Endymion.

• fifth rate. She was wrecked on a coral reef near the Turks and Caicos Islands
  on 23 August 1790.
• receiving ship
  in 1859 and was broken up in June 1868.
• screw frigate
  . She was decommissioned in 1879 and lent for use as a hospital ship in 1881. Sold out of service in 1885, she was used as an administration ship until 1904, being sold for scrapping in December of that year.
• HMS Endymion (1891), launched in 1891, was an Edgar-class cruiser. She served in World War I and was broken up in 1921.

List of ships with the same or similar names

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