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Pomone is the name of several ships:
Four
Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS Pomone :
HMS Pomone (1794) , a 44-gun French frigate captured on 23 April 1794 and broken up in 1803.
HMS Pomone (1805) , a 38-gun frigate built in 1805 and wrecked in 1811.
HMS Pomone , 38-gun French frigate Astrée , captured on 6 December 1810; renamed Pomone in 1811 and paid off in 1815.
HMS Pomone (1897) , a Pelorus class cruiser built in 1897 and scrapped in 1922.
Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Pomone :
Pomone (1750–1760), a 30-gun frigate
Pomone (1770–1771), a transport ship
Pomone (built 1787, captured by British 1794, broken up 1803), a 40-gun frigate
Pomone (1805–1811), a 44-gun frigate
Pomone (1821–1830), a 28-gun corvette
Pomone (1845–1877), a steam frigate
Pomone can also mean:
Prix de Pomone , a French horserace named after Pomona (French name Pomone ), the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.
Pomone (opera) , a French opera by Robert Cambert
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