HMS Aurora

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn.


 * HMS Aurora (1757) was a 32-gun fifth rate, formerly the French Abenakise. She was captured in 1757 and broken up in 1763.
 * HMS Aurora (1766) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1766 and lost to a fire in 1770.
 * HMS Aurora (1777) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1777 and sold in 1814.
 * HMS Aurore (1793) was a 32-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1793. She became a prison ship in 1799, serving until about 1803.
 * HMS Aurora (1809) was a 14-gun Indian sloop launched in 1809 and captured by the French the following year.
 * HMS Aurora (1814) was a 38-gun fifth rate, originally the French frigate Clorinde (1808). She was captured in 1814 and broken up in 1851.
 * HMS Aurora (1861) was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1861 and broken up in 1881.
 * HMS Aurora (1887) was an Orlando class armoured cruiser launched in 1887 and sold in 1907.
 * HMS Aurora (1913) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1913. She was briefly transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1920 and was broken up in 1927.
 * HMS Aurora (12) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1936. She was sold to China in 1948, was sunk in 1950 and salvaged in 1951, hulked and then scrapped by 1960.
 * HMS Aurora (F10) was a Leander-class frigate launched in 1962 and broken up in 1990.