HMS Erebus (1826)

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|Ship name = HMS ''Erebus'' |Ship namesake = Erebus |Ship ordered = 9 January 1823 |Ship builder = Pembroke Dock, Wales |Ship laid down = October 1824 |Ship launched = |Ship acquired = |Ship commissioned = |Ship struck = |Ship honours = |Ship fate = Abandoned 22 April 1848, King William Island}} |Wreck discovered || 2 September 2014, Wilmot and Crampton Bay

|Ship displacement = |Ship tons burthen = 372 tons (bm) |Ship length = |Ship beam = |Ship draught = |Ship power = 30 Nominal horsepower |Ship sail plan = |Ship propulsion = Sail, steam engine |Ship complement = 67 |Ship armament = * 1 × mortar * 1 × mortar * 8 × guns * 2 × guns}}

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'''HMS ''Erebus''''' was a constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy named after Erebus, the personification of darkness in Greek mythology.

The 372-ton ship was armed with two mortars – one and one – and 10 guns. The ship took part in the Ross expedition of 1839–1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014. Provided by Wikipedia