HMS Orion
1787 First ship to bear the name.
1854 Second ship to bear the name.
1867 Ship broken up (presumably at Castle's yard )
1879 Third ship to bear the name.
1911 Fourth ship to bear the name, a Dreadnought.
1914 Castle's Shipbreaking Co donated the figurehead from an earlier HMS Orion, which had taken part in the battle of Trafalgar (sic), to the museum of the Royal United Services Institute[1]
1915 Took part in the Battle of Jutland.
1925 HMS Orion was broken up by Cox and Danks at Queenborough[2]
1941 It was stated that the figurehead outside the United Service Museum in Whitehall had come from the second HMS Orion (1854-1867) which had served in the Baltic during the Russian War. A publicity campaign was launched to store the figurehead in a safe location.[3]