HMS Briseis explained

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Briseis, after the princess Briseis in Greek mythology:

• was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808, wrecked off Cuba in 1816.
• was a 6-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1829, fitted as a packet, that sank in the Atlantic in 1838.