A number of ships have been named Apollo or Apollon, after the Greek and Roman god, including:-
Merchant ships Apollo (1812), an East India Company ship Apollo (1831?), a trading ship that became a storeship in San Francisco, California Apollo (1832), a British paddle passenger ship, scrapped in 1885 Apollo (1862), a British paddle passenger-cargo ship, scrapped in 1885 Apollo (1865), a British screw passenger-cargo ship, sunk in collision on 7 March 1882 Apollo (1866), a British-built Austrian passenger-cargo ship, scrapped in 1908 Apollo (1927), a German cargo ship seized as a prize in 1945 and renamed Empire Taff Apollo (1936), the former British ferry and wartime landing ship Royal Scotsman, repurposed in the 1960s as founding flagship of the Sea Org of the Church of Scientology Apollo (1943), a Swedish cargo ship built as Empire Unicorn Apollo (1944 tug), a Greek tug, built as Empire Polly Apollo (1944 freighter), a Norwegian cargo ship, formerly naval auxiliary USS Rockdale Apollo (1945), an American cargo ship, built as the Liberty ship Willard R. Johnson Apollon 11 (1952), a Greek ferry from 1969, built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast as Irish Coast; sold to the Philippines in 1981 Apollon (1960), a Greek cruise ship, built as Empress of Canada Apollo (1969), a vehicle and passenger ferry which operated in Sweden 1970–1976, Finland 1995–2000 and Canada (2000–2021) Apollon (1973), a Japanese-built cruise ship of Epirotiki Line 1992–1995, broken up in 2014
Naval ships Royal Navy was 20-gun storeship captured from the French in 1747 and wrecked in 1749 off Madras. HMS Apollo was a 32-gun fifth-rate launched in 1763 as . She was renamed in 1774, and was broken up in 1786. was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched in 1794 and wrecked in 1799 off Holland. was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1799 and wrecked in 1804 off Portugal. was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched in 1805. She was put in harbour service, followed by use as a troopship in 1846 and was broken up in 1856. was an protected cruiser launched in 1891. She was converted into a minelayer in 1909 and was broken up in 1920. HMS Apollo was a light cruiser launched in 1934. She was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1938, and renamed . was an launched in 1943 and broken up in 1962. was a launched in 1970. She was sold to the Pakistan Navy in 1988 and renamed Zulfiquar.
See also Apollo-class cruiser of the Royal Navy Apollo-class frigate, Royal Navy sailing frigates
United States Navy USS Apollo (AS-25), a 1943 United States Navy submarine tender
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