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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Pandora'' after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship: * HMS ''Pandora'' (1779), a 24-gun ''Porcupine''-class sixth rate launched in 1779. She was sent to capture the ''Bounty'' mutineers in 1790 and ran aground in 1791. * HMS Pandora (1780) was the French 14-gun brig ''Pandour'', launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS ''Pandora''; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797. * HMS ''Pandora'' (1806), an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1811 off the Skaw with the loss 27 men to exposure.〔Hepper (1994), p.135.〕 * HMS ''Pandora'', to have been another 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop. She was ordered in 1812, renamed HMS ''Lynx'' later that year, and was cancelled in 1818. * HMS ''Pandora'' (1813), an 18-gun ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop launched in 1813, converted to a ship-sloop in 1825, put up for sale in 1827 and sold in 1831. * HMS ''Pandora'' (1833), a 3-gun packet brig launched in 1833. She became a coastguard watchvessel in 1857 and was sold in 1862. * HMS ''Pandora'' (1859), a ''Philomel''-class wooden gunboat launched in 1859 and sold in 1875 for use as an Arctic expedition ship. She was sold to American explorers in 1878, renamed ''Jeanette'' and sunk by ice in 1881. * HMS ''Pandora'', a ''Pearl''-class armoured cruiser launched in 1889, renamed HMS ''Katoomba'' in 1890 and sold in 1906. * HMS ''Pandora'' (1900), a ''Pelorus''-class armoured cruiser launched in 1900 and scrapped in 1913. * HMS ''Pandora'' (1914), a depot ship, formerly the civilian ''Seti''. She was renamed HMS ''Dolphin'' in 1924 and was sunk by a mine in 1939. * HMS ''Pandora'' (N42), a P-class submarine launched in 1929 and sunk at Valletta, Malta in 1942. She was raised in 1943 and broken up in 1957. ==See also== * *''To the Ends of the Earth'', a trilogy of novels by William Golding set aboard a fictitious HMS ''Pandora'' 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 Pandora」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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