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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Naiad'' after a Greek mythological figure, the Naiad * , formerly the , which , a 64-gun third-rate, captured off Trincomalee on the night of 11 April 1783. ''Naïade'' was armed with eighteen to twenty 8-pounder guns and ten swivel guns and had a crew of 160 men. She had a burthen of 640 tons, and measured 126'8" (deck) by 33'8½" (breadth) by 10'2" (hold depth). The British armed her with twenty-two 12-pounder guns, and two 18-pounder and six 12-pounder carronade, but never commissioned her; they then sold her 17 August 1784.〔Demerliac (1996), p.73, #462.〕 * , a fifth-rate frigate launched in 1797 and commissioned in 1798. She was paid off in 1826 and then served for many years in Latin America as a depot ship, first for the Royal Navy and then for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. She was broken up in 1898. * , an ''Apollo''-class second class protected cruiser launched in 1890 and sold in 1922. * , a launched in 1939 and torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat on 11 March 1942. * , a launched in 1963 and decommissioned in 1987. ==Citations== 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 Naiad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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