Six ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Actaeon or HMS Acteon, after Actaeon

Actaeon

Actaeon , in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron....

, a figure in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

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was a 28-gun sixth-rate

Sixth-rate

Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.-Rating:...

 frigate launched in 1757 and sold as unserviceable in 1766. was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate launched in 1775 and grounded and burnt in 1776. was a 44-gun fifth-rate

Fifth-rate

In Britain's Royal Navy during the classic age of fighting sail, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchal system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.-Rating:...

 frigate launched in 1778, on harbour service from 1795 and sold in 1802. was a 16-gun brig-sloop captured from the French in 1805 by and broken up in 1816. was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1831. She was converted to a survey ship in 1856, lent to the Cork Harbour Board in 1870 as a hulk, and sold in 1889.

• HMS Actaeon was a hulk, originally the 50-gun fourth rate  that formed part of the Navy's torpedo
  Torpedo
  The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...
  
   school, HMS Vernon
  HMS Vernon (shore establishment)
  HMS Vernon was a shore establishment or 'stone frigate' of the Royal Navy. Vernon was established on 26 April 1876 as the Royal Navy's Torpedo Branch and operated until 1 April 1996, when the various elements comprising the establishment were split up and moved to different commands.-Foundation...
  
  . She was renamed HMS Actaeon in 1886 and was sold in 1923. was a modified sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
  
   launched in 1945 and sold to West Germany in 1959 as Hipper. She was hulked in 1964 and sold for breaking up in 1967. was a shore establishment, originally part of HMS Vernon
  HMS Vernon (shore establishment)
  HMS Vernon was a shore establishment or 'stone frigate' of the Royal Navy. Vernon was established on 26 April 1876 as the Royal Navy's Torpedo Branch and operated until 1 April 1996, when the various elements comprising the establishment were split up and moved to different commands.-Foundation...
  
  . It was established as a separate command in 1905 and paid off in 1922.

} was the original HMS Actaeon, renamed and commissioned in 1905 and sold in 1922.
} was HMS Actaeon II between 1906 and 1922.