Definitions for "HMS Hermione"
Keywords:  hermione, hms, navy, frigate, cruiser
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermione after Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology.
HMS Hermione (F58) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was, like the rest of her class, named after a figure of mythology. Hermione was built by Alexander Stephen's & Sons Shipbuilders, though she was completed by Yarrow Shipbuilders.
HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1782, notorious for the mutiny which took place aboard her.