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Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Charon'', after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Greek Mythology: * HMS ''Charon'' was a 44-gun fifth-rate launched in 1778 and destroyed at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. * HMS ''Charon'' was a 44-gun fifth-rate launched in 1783. She was on harbour service from 1795, used as a troopship from 1800 and was broken up in 1805. Because ''Charon'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. * HMS ''Charon'' was a wooden paddle packet, formerly the GPO vessel ''Crusader''. She was launched in 1827, transferred to the navy in 1837 and used as a mail packet. She was sold to Trinity House in 1849. * HMS ''Charon'' was an ''Albacore''-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1865. ==Sources== 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 Charon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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