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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pluto, after Pluto, a God of Roman mythology: *HMS ''Pluto'' was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian service in 1745 when she had been named ''Roman Emperor''. She was sold in 1747. *HMS ''Pluto'' was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian service in 1756 when she had been named ''New Concord''. She was sold in 1762. *HMS ''Pluto'' was previously , a 16-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS ''Pluto'' when she was converted into a fire ship in 1777. The French privateer ''Duc de Chartres'' captured her on 30 November 1780.〔Hepper (1994), p.60.〕 ''Pluto''s subsequent fate is unknown.〔Demerliac (1996), p.146, #1213.〕 The next year, captured the privateer, which the Royal Navy took into service as .〔Demerliac (1996), p. 182, #1777.〕 *HMS ''Pluto'' was a 14-gun fire ship launched in 1782 and sold in 1817. *HMS ''Pluto'' was a wood paddle gunvessel launched in 1831 and broken up in 1861. *HMS ''Pluto'' was an ''Algerine'' class minesweeper launched in 1944 and sold in 1972. A fictional HMS ''Pluto'' appears as the admiral's flagship in the Horatio Hornblower novel ''A Ship of the Line''. ==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 Pluto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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