HMS Bacchus

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Bacchus, after the Greco-roman deity Bacchus:

• HMS Bacchus was a 10-gun Adonis-class schooner built in Bermuda in 1806 and captured in 1807.
• HMS Bacchus was a Dutch 10-gun schooner launched c.1806, that the Royal Navy captured in 1807, and broke up in 1812.
• HMS Bacchus was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and expended as a breakwater in 1829.
• HMS Arethusa was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1817, and renamed HMS Bacchus in 1844 upon her conversion into a hulk; she was broken up in 1883.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.