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Ten ships of the [[Royal Navy]] have been called '''HMS ''Aurora''''' or '''HMS ''Aurore''''', after the [[Roman mythology|Roman]] [[Eos|Goddess of the dawn]].

* [[Abénaquise|HMS ''Aurora'' (1757)]]  was a 36-gun [[fifth rate]], formerly the [[France|French]] [[Abénaquise|''Abenakise'']]. She was captured in 1757 and broken up in 1763.
* {{HMS|Aurora|1766}} was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1766, sailed September 1769 for East Indies, lost without a trace, presumably from fire or storm, in the Indian Ocean in January 1770.
* {{HMS|Aurora|1777}} was a 28-gun [[sixth rate]] launched in 1777 and sold in 1814.
* [[French frigate Aurore (1768)|HMS ''Aurore'']] (1793) was a [[French Navy]] 32-gun frigate handed over to the British at the capture of Toulon in 1793. She became a [[prison ship]] in 1799, and was broken up in 1803. 
* {{HMS|Aurora|1814}} was a 38-gun fifth rate, originally the {{ship|French frigate|Clorinde|1808|6}}. She was captured in 1814 and broken up in 1851.
* {{HMS|Aurora|1861}} was a wooden [[screw frigate]] launched in 1861 and broken up in 1881.
* {{HMS|Aurora|1887}} was an {{sclass|Orlando|cruiser|0}} [[armoured cruiser]] launched in 1887 and sold in 1907.
* {{HMS|Aurora|1913}} was an {{sclass|Arethusa|cruiser|0||1913}} [[light cruiser]] launched in 1913.  She was briefly transferred to the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] in 1920 and was broken up in 1927.
* {{HMS|Aurora|12}} was an {{sclass|Arethusa|cruiser|0||1934}} light cruiser launched in 1936. She was sold to [[The Republic of China]] in 1948, was sunk in 1950 and salvaged in 1951, hulked and then scrapped by 1960.
* {{HMS|Aurora|F10}} was a {{sclass|Leander|frigate}} launched in 1962 and broken up in 1990.

==Battle honours==
Ships named ''Aurora'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:
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*[[Battle of St. Lucia|St. Lucia]] 1778
*[[Capture of Minorca (1798)|Minorca]] 1798
*[[Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810)|Guadeloupe]] 1810
*[[Boxer Rebellion|China]] 1900
*[[Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)|Dogger Bank]] 1915
*[[Operation Rheinübung|''Bismarck'']] 1941
*[[Battle of the Mediterranean|Mediterranean]] 1941–43
*[[Malta convoys|Malta Convoys]] 1941
*[[North African campaign|North Africa]] 1942–43
*[[Allied invasion of Sicily|Sicily]] 1943
*[[Operation Avalanche|Salerno]] 1943
*[[Dodecanese campaign|Aegean]] 1943–44
*[[Operation Dragoon|South France]] 1944
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==See also==
* {{ship|HCS|Aurora|1809}}, launched in 1809 for the British [[East India Company]]'s naval arm, the [[Royal Indian Marine#1686-1830|Bombay Marine]]; last listed 1828

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