{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named '''HMS ''Charon''''', after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Greek Mythology:
* {{HMS|Charon|1778}} was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1778 and destroyed at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. * {{HMS|Charon|1783}} was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1783. She was on harbour service from 1795, used as a troopship from 1800 and was broken up in 1805. Because ''Charon'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21077|pages=791–792|date=15 March 1850}}</ref> * {{HMS|Charon|1827}} was a wooden paddle packet, formerly the GPO vessel ''Crusader''. She was launched in 1827, transferred to the navy in 1837 and used as a mail packet. She was sold to Trinity House in 1849. * {{HMS|Charon|1856}} was an {{sclass|Albacore|gunboat (1855)|0}} wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1865.
==Sources== {{reflist}}
==References== * {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}}
{{Ship index}} {{Italic title prefixed|3}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Charon}} Category:Royal Navy ship names