HMS Echo
HMS
Echo
(H87) under sail from Valletta, Malta in 2016
A number of ships
Royal Navy
have been named
HMS
Echo
, after the
Echo
of Greek mythology
HMS
Echo
(1758)
was a 24-gun
sixth rate
captured from France in 1758 and sold in 1770.
HMS
Echo
(1780)
was the French
Cerf
-class brig-rigged
cutter
Hussard
, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, launched in 1779 or '80 and captured on 7 July 1780
HMS
Echo
(1782)
was a 16-gun
sloop
launched in 1782 and broken up in 1797.
HMS
Echo
(1797)
was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809. She then became a whaler before she was wrecked in 1821
HMS
Echo
(1809)
was an 18-gun
Cruizer
-class
brig-sloop
launched in 1809 and broken up in 1817.
HMS
Echo
(1827)
was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a
tugboat
in 1830, and sold in 1885.
HMS
Echo
(H23)
was an
E-class
destroyer
launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
HMS
Echo
(A70)
was an
Echo
-class
survey vessel
launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
HMS
Echo
(H87)
is an
Echo
-class
hydrographic survey ship, launched in 2002 and decommissioned in June 2022