vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Acheron after Acheron, a river of Hades in Greek mythology. HMS Acheron (1803) was an 8-gun bomb vessel purchased...
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The Acheron (/ˈækərən/ or /ˈækərɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἀχέρων Acheron or Ἀχερούσιος Acherousios; Greek: Αχέροντας Acherontas) is a river in the Epirus region...
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HMS Acheron was an A-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She served during the Second World War in Home waters and off the Norwegian coast, before becoming...
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1850. HMS Northumberland (1866) was a Minotaur-class ironclad battleship launched in 1866. She became a depot ship in 1898 and was renamed HMS Acheron on...
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HMS Badger was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the eighth...
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USS Constitution (section HMS Cyane and HMS Levant)
French frigate Acheron, using stem-to-stern digital image scans. Lieutenant Commander John Scivier of the Royal Navy, commanding officer of HMS Victory, paid...
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and commanded torpedo operations on the destroyers HMS Crane, HMS Myrmidon, HMS Acheron and HMS Rattlesnake. After the war, he trained as a physical...
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(Q142) Fresnel (Q143) Monge (Q144) Achille (Q147) Ajax (Q148) Actéon (Q149) Achéron (Q150) Argo (Q151) Prométhée (Q153) Persée (Q154) Protée (Q155) Pégase...
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The Acheron class (renamed the I class in October 1913) was a class of twenty-three destroyers of the British Royal Navy, all built under the 1910–11...
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Achéron was a French Navy Redoutable-class submarine of the M6 series commissioned in 1932. She participated in World War II, first on the side of the...
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