HMS Echo

A number of ships Royal Navy have been named HMS Echo, after the Echo of Greek mythology.

• HMS Echo was a 24-gun sixth-rate captured from the French in 1758 and sold in 1770.
• HMS Echo was the French Cerf-class brig-rigged cutter Hussard, of eighteen 6-pounder guns, launched in 1779 or '80 at Saint Malo.^[1] Nonsuch, under the command of Sir James Wallace, captured her on 7 July 1780;^[2] in February 1781 a gust of wind in Deadman's Bay, near Plymouth, caused her to wreck.^[1][3]
• HMS Echo was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1782 and broken up in 1797.
• HMS Echo was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809.
• HMS Echo was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809 and broken up in 1817.
• HMS Echo was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a tugboat in 1830, and sold in 1885.
• HMS Echo was an E-class destroyer launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy as Navarinon from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
• HMS Echo was an Echo-class survey vessel launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
• HMS Echo is an Echo-class hydrographic survey ship, launched in 2002 and on active service as of 2014.

Other ships

In addition to these ships, a number of vessels have been taken up from trade and named Echo while in government service:

• Echo was a dockyard tank vessel previously named Luda. She was purchased in 1887 and sold in 1928.
• Echo was a whaler, previously named Barrowby. She was purchased in 1915 and sold in 1919.
• Echo was a trawler, hired between 1915 and 1919.
• Echo was a drifter, formerly a French minesweeper seized in 1940, renamed Resound later that year, and returned in 1946.

Citations

1. Demerliac (1996), p.88, #581.
2. The London Gazette: no. 12140. p. 6. 28 November 1780.
3. Hepper (11994), p.61.

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.
• Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3
• Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.