There was a British ship by that name, dispatched in quest of the mutineers of the Bounty.

But any old tar might have prophesied her fate.

Bound home she was wrecked on a reef off New South Wales.

Pandora, indeed! A pretty name for a ship: fairly smiting Fate in the face.

But in this matter of christening ships of war, Christian nations are but too apt to be dare-devils.