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"Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749, Book XV, ch. 5) employs the term in the sense of "hired thugs": "The door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of myrmidons at his heels." The Royal Navy has had several ships called HMS Myrmidon.
Myrmidon was armed with eighteen 32-pounder carronades and a pair of 9-pounder cannon as chase guns. The ship had a crew of 135 officers and ratings. [1] Myrmidon, the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy, [2] was ordered on 2 August 1811, laid down in July 1812 in Milford Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 18 June 1813.
HMS Syren was one of two Myrmidon-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy.She was launched by Palmers in 1900 and served in home waters. Syren ran aground during manoeuvres off Ireland in 1905 and was badly damaged, requiring her bow to be reconstructed.
Myrmidon was sunk after a collision in 1917, while Syren served through the war and was broken up after the end of hostilities. The ships were fitted with Reed boilers which generated around 6,200 horsepower (4,600 kW). They were armed with the standard 12-pounder gun and two torpedo tubes and carried a complement of 63 officers and men.
[2] [1] Myrmidon was laid down (as Yard number 751) on 23 October 1899, and was launched on 26 May 1900, completing in May 1901. [2] She was the fifth ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. [3] Myrmidon closely resembled Spiteful, built by Palmers under the previous year's shipbuilding programme, and like Spiteful had four funnels.
ORP Orkan, formerly HMS Myrmidon, was an M-class destroyer of the Polish Navy during World War II. Orkan is Polish for " hurricane ". The destroyer was sunk by the German submarine U-378 on 8 October 1943.
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