title: List of ships named Galatea
text: # List of ships named Galatea
  
  A number of ships have been named Galatea, after the Galatea of mythology.
  
  ## Naval ships
  
  ### Italian Navy
  
  * Italian submarine Galatea, a Sirena-class submarine launched in 1933 and struck in 1948
  
  ### Royal Danish Navy
  
  * HDMS Galathea (1831) was a corvette launched in 1831 and decommissioned in 1861
  * HDMS Galathea (1916) was an Æger-class submarine launched in 1916 and sold for scrapping in 1946
  * HDMS Galathea (1949), a survey ship launched as HMS Leith in 1933, was acquired by Denmark from mercantile service and renamed in 1949; she was sold for scrapping in 1955.
  
  ### Royal Navy
  
  * HMS Galatea (1776) was a 20-gun sixth-rate post-ship launched in 1776 and broken up in 1783.
  * HMS Galatea (1794) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1794 and broken up 1809.
  * HMS Galatea (1810) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1810, a coal hulk after 1836, and broken up 1849.
  * HMS Galatea (1859) was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1859 and broken up 1883. In 1866 she went on a world cruise, under the command of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
  * HMS Galatea (1887) was an Orlando-class cruiser which was launched in 1887 and sold for scrapping in 1905.
  * HMS Galatea (1914) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched in 1914 and sold 1921.
  * HMS Galatea (71) was a light cruiser of (another) Arethusa class, launched in 1934, and torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941.
  * HMS Galatea (1946) was a RNVR stone frigate in Kingston upon Hull that was decommissioned in 1958.
  * HMS Galatea (F18) was a Leander-class frigate built in 1963 and expended as a target in 1988.
  
  ### Spanish Navy
  
  * Spanish training ship Galatea served from 1922 to 1981; she was previously a barque-rigged cargo ship built in 1896, and is now the museum ship Glenlee, berthed in Glasgow.
  
  ### United States Navy
  
  * USS Galatea (1863) was a steamship originally built for merchant service but purchased by the navy before completion and converted into a gunboat for service in the American Civil War.
  * USS Galatea (SP-714) was a private yacht built in 1914 and purchased by the navy for use as an armed patrol boat during World War I.
  
  ## Other
  
  * Galatea, of 332 tons (bm) was a sailing vessel launched at Whitby in 1793. She became a West Indiaman and in 1795 participated as a transport in the British invasion of the West Indies. A French privateer captured her in 1801 in sight of Jamaica.
  * SS Galatea (1864) was a 1,400-ton American passenger-cargo coastal steamship.
  * Galatea (yacht), built in 1885, was the 1886 America's Cup challenger.
  * THV Galatea is a lighthouse tender of the United Kingdom launched in 2006.
  