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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Ariel'', possibly after the archangel Ariel in Judeo-Christian mysticism, but certainly influenced by Shakespeare's "airy spirit" of the same name: * , a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1777, captured by the French ship ''Amazone'' in 1779 and lent to the Americans as USS ''Ariel'' until 1781. She was lost in 1793. * , a 16-gun sloop launched in 1781. laid up in 1792, offered for sale in 1795, and sold in 1802. * , an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 and sold in 1816. * , a 14-gun brig launched in Bombay in 1809 and foundered in 1820. * , a ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1820 and wrecked in 1828 on Sable Island. * , a wooden paddle packet launched in 1822 and transferred to the Navy from the General Post Office in 1837, where she had been named ''Arrow''. She was sold back into mercantile service in 1850. * , a wood screw sloop launched in 1854 and sold in 1865. * , a second class gunboat launched in 1873, transferred to the coastguard in 1877 and sold in 1889. * , a D-class destroyer launched in 1897 and wrecked in 1907 at Malta. * , an ''Acheron''-class destroyer launched in 1911 and sunk in 1918 in the North Sea. ''Ariel'' has also been the name of a naval training shore establishment: * was a training establishment established at Warrington in 1942, then moved to Worthy Down in 1952. It moved to RNAS Lee-on-Solent, which had been named HMS ''Daedalus'', but was renamed ''Ariel'' in 1959. The name reverted to HMS ''Daedalus'' in 1965. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Ariel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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