HMS Pluto



Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pluto, after Pluto, a God of Roman mythology:


 * HMS Pluto 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 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), 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. Pluto's subsequent fate is unknown. The next year, HMS Cumberland (1774) captured the privateer, which the Royal Navy took into service as HMS Duc de Chartres (1781).
 * HMS Pluto was a 14-gun fire ship launched in 1782 and sold in 1817.
 * HMS Pluto was a wood paddle gunvessel launched in 1831 and broken up in 1861.
 * HMS Pluto was an Algerine class 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.