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Hercules was the name of a large number of ships, named in honour of the Roman mythological hero Hercules: Hercules (1771 ship) was launched at Georgia in 1771. She appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1777 and became a West Indiaman. Between 1792 and 1796 she made three voyages as a whaler in the Southern Whale Fishery.
In the French Navy, there were no less than nineteen ships called Hercule, plus three more named Alcide which is another name of the same hero. Hercules' name was also used for five ships of the US Navy, four ships of the Spanish Navy, four of the Argentine Navy and two of the Swedish Navy, as well as for numerous civilian sailing and steam ships.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hercules, or HMS Hercule, after the Greek and Roman hero Hercules. Another was launched, but never served in the Navy: HMS Hercules (1759) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1759 and sold in 1784. HMS Hercule was a 74-gun third rate captured by HMS Mars in 1798 and broken up in 1810.
USS Columbia – aircraft carrier (Seven former, one current, and one future US Navy ships share that name, none of them an aircraft carrier) Reduktor – Soviet intelligence ship; Final Flight, 1988 USS United States – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (A US Navy aircraft carrier was to have had that name, but the ship was cancelled.) America, 2001
HMS Hercules was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built at Deptford Dockyard by Adam Hayes and launched on 15 March 1759. [ 1 ] Service history
The Hercules class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade. Design
The ship's name was changed to Calcutta in 1909, and she served as depot ship at Gibraltar. In July 1914 she arrived at Devonport in tow of the old cruiser HMS Sutlej , [ 6 ] Calcutta ' s engines being by this time inoperable, and in April 1915 she became an artificers' training establishment at Portsmouth under the name of Fisgard II . [ 7 ]
Several ships of the Spanish Navy have borne the name Hercules: . Hercules (1716), a 50-gun ship, stricken in 1718.; Hercules (1719), a 60-gun ship, broken up in 1746.; Hercules (1756), a 70-gun ship, removed from Navy lists in 1759.