HMS Euphrates
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Four ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Euphrates, after the Euphrates river. Another three were planned but never completed:
- HMS Euphrates (1813) was a 36-gun fifth rate built as HMS Greyhound, but renamed in 1812 and launched in 1813. She was sold in 1818.
- HMS Euphrates was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate. She was laid down, but cancelled in 1831.
- HMS Euphrates was to have been a wooden screw frigate, laid down in 1847 and cancelled in 1849.
- HMS Euphrates (1866) was an iron screw troopship launched in 1866 and sold in 1894.
- HMS Euphrates was to have been an Emerald-class light cruiser, laid down in 1918 and cancelled in 1919.
- HMS Euphrates (shore establishment) was a shore establishment from 1942 located at Basra.