HMS Echo

A number of ships Royal Navy have been named HMS Echo, after the Echo of Greek mythology.


 * HMS Echo (1758) was a 24-gun sixth-rate captured from the French in 1758 and sold in 1770.
 * HMS Echo (1780) was the French Cerf-class brig-rigged cutter Hussard, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, launched in 1779 or '80 at Saint Malo. HMS Nonsuch (1774), under the command of Sir James Wallace, captured her on 7 July 1780; in February 1781 a gust of wind in Deadman's Bay, near Plymouth, caused her to wreck.
 * HMS Echo (1782) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1782 and broken up in 1797.
 * HMS Echo (1797) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809.
 * HMS Echo (1809) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809 and broken up in 1817.
 * HMS Echo (1827) was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a tugboat in 1830, and sold in 1885.
 * HMS Echo (H23) was an E-class destroyer launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy as Navarinon from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
 * HMS Echo (A70) was an Echo-class survey vessel launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
 * HMS Echo (H87) is an Echo-class hydrographic survey ship, launched in 2002 and on active service as of 2013.

Other ships
In addition to these ships, a number of vessels have been taken up from trade and named Echo while in government service:


 * Echo was a dockyard tank vessel previously named Luda. She was purchased in 1887 and sold in 1928.
 * Echo was a whaler, previously named Barrowby. She was purchased in 1915 and sold in 1919.
 * Echo was a trawler, hired between 1915 and 1919.
 * Echo was a drifter, formerly a French minesweeper seized in 1940, renamed Resound later that year, and returned in 1946.