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Several ships have been named Apollo for the mythical figure of Apollo: Apollo (1798 ship) was built in Bermuda. From 1803 she made two voyages as a Liverpool-based slave ship. The French captured her in port at Dominica in 1805. Apollo (1812 EIC ship) was launched at Hull. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) as a ...
Twenty-one ships of this class were ordered under the 1889 Naval Defence Act, making up half of the Act's required forty-two cruisers. The obvious limitations of the Apollo s led to a further enlarged & improved design (the Astraea class ) being drawn up by White, of which eight units were also ordered under the Naval Defence Act.
HMS Sirius was an Apollo-class cruiser of the British Royal Navy which served from 1892 to 1918 in various colonial posts such as the South and West African coastlines and off the British Isles as a hastily converted minelayer during the First World War.
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HMS Apollo, the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns. She was the name ship of the Apollo -class frigates . Apollo was launched in 1799, and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1804.
USNS Redstone, designated T‑AGM‑20, was a tracking ship assigned to Apollo space mission support under the control of the Eastern Range.For a brief time during conversion the ship was named Johnstown with the designation AGM‑20.
Apollo was laid down under a United States Maritime Commission contract, MC hull 860, on 24 June 1943 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 6 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. James B. Hill; and acquired by the Navy and placed in reduced commission on 31 December 1943 for passage to her conversion yard.
HMS Apollo, the sixth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a second-class Apollo-class protected cruiser launched in 1891 and converted to a minelayer in 1909 along with six of her sisters.