Pomone
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Pomone is the name of several ships:
- Four Royal Navy ships have borne the name HMS Pomone:
- HMS Pomone (1794), a 44-gun French frigate captured on 23 April 1794 and broken up in 1803.
- HMS Pomone (1805), a 38-gun frigate built in 1805 and wrecked in 1811.
- HMS Pomone, 38-gun French frigate Astrée, captured on 6 December 1810; renamed Pomone in 1811 and paid off in 1815.
- HMS Pomone (1897), a Pelorus class cruiser built in 1897 and scrapped in 1922.
- Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Pomone:
Pomone can also mean:
- Prix de Pomone, a French horserace named after Pomona (French name Pomone), the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.
- Pomone (opera), a French opera by Robert Cambert
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