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HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. [1] The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. [2]
HMS Pandora (1780) was the French 14-gun brig Pandour, launched in 1780, that the British captured in 1795 and renamed HMS Pandora; she foundered in the North Sea in 1797. HMS Pandora (1806), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1811 off the Skaw with the loss 27 men to exposure. [1]
HMS Pandora foundering, 29 August 1791, depicted in an 1831 etching by Robert Batty from a sketch by Heywood. On 29 August 1791, Pandora ran aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef. The men in "Pandora's Box" were ignored as the regular crew attempted to prevent the ship from foundering.
HMS Pandora was a British Parthian-class submarine commissioned in 1930 and lost in 1942 during the Second World War. This class was the first to be fitted with Mark VIII torpedoes . On 4 July 1940 she torpedoed and sank the French aviso Rigault de Genouilly off the Algerian coast.
In 1791, Heywood and his companions were met in Tahiti by the search vessel HMS Pandora. Heywood and one other sailor welcomed the Pandora in canoes, relieved to be rescued. However, they were arrested; the captain, Edward Edwards , had them and 12 others fettered and handcuffed in an 11-foot (3.4 m) box built for the purpose on deck.
HMS Pandora was a Pelorus-class cruiser of the Royal Navy.There were eleven "Third class" protected cruisers in the class, which was designed by Sir William White.While well armed for their size, they were primarily workhorses for the overseas fleet on "police" duties and did not serve with the main battlefleet.
HMS Pandora was sent out by the Admiralty in November 1790 in pursuit of Bounty, to capture the mutineers and bring them back to Britain to face a court martial. She arrived in March 1791 and captured fourteen men within two weeks; they were locked away in a makeshift wooden prison on Pandora ' s quarterdeck. The men called their cell "Pandora ...
HMS Pandora was a 3-gun brig of the Royal Navy, in service from 1833 to 1862.. Map of the Cape of Good Hope with soundings made by Pandora in 1851. Between 1845 and 1848 Pandora, under the command of James Wood, was used as a tender to HMS Herald. [1]