Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hebe, after the Greek goddess Hebe.
was a French 38-gun frigate captured in 1782, renamed Blonde in 1805, and broken up in 1811. was a 32-gun fifth rate in service from 1804 to 1813. Because Hebe served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), 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. was a 46-gun launched in 1826, made a receiving ship in 1839, hulked in 1861, and broken up 1873. was an launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper in 1909, and sold 1919. was a launched in 1936 and sunk by a mine off Bari in November 1943.
See also was launched at Leith. For eight years she served the Royal Navy as a hired armed ship and transport. Her contract lasted from 27 April 1804 to 30 October 1812. She spent her entire naval career escorting convoys to the Baltic. She became a transport that an American privateer captured in March 1814.
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Swinford, Sally (2018) Veteran Diver, Peter Manchee, discusses shipwrecks near Georgetown. Georgetown: South Carolina Maritime Museum. Wiberg, Eric (2013) SS Astrea, Dutch, sunk by Italian sub Enrico Tazzoli SE of Bermuda March 1942, rescued by Hebe & Rio Iguazu. Boston: Eric Wiberg