Bellona, possibly a
hired armed vessel or armed ship, was lost at the mouth of the Elbe circa December 1779. She had been escorting a convoy from Hull to Hamburg. Several of the merchantmen in the convoy were lost too.[1]
HMS Bellona (1794) was a 3-gun vessel purchased in 1794. She was used as a mud boat from 1799 and was broken up in 1805.
HMS Bellona (1806) was a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer
Bellone. She was captured in 1806, renamed HMS Blanche in 1809, and was broken up in 1814.
HMS Bellona was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1812 as
HMS Indus. She was renamed HMS Bellona in 1818, used for harbour service from 1840 and was broken up in 1868.
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