Bellona

Bellona may refer to:

Places

United States of America

• Bellona Foundry and adjacent Bellona Arsenal, 19th century United States Army and Confederate munitions factory and depot in Virginia

Italy

• Bellona, Campania, a comune in the Province of Caserta

Solomon Islands

• Bellona Island, an island in Rennell and Bellona Province

New Caledonia

• Bellona Reef, 164 km south-southeast of Chesterfield, is geologically separated from the Chesterfield archipelago but commonly included

People

• Bellona (goddess), a Roman goddess of war

Ships

• Bellona, a French ship captured in 1759 by Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
• Bellona, a Swedish class of frigates and a ship designed by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman in the late 18th century.
• Bellona (1782-c.1815), a merchant vessel that transported convicts to New South Wales in 1792, and that made several voyages for the British East India Company
• HMS Bellona, a name held by eight ships of the Royal Navy

Other uses

• 28 Bellona, an asteroid
• Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian environmental organisation
• Bellona Publishing House, a Polish publishing house specialising in books on military history

In literature

• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, a Peter Wimsey adventure
• Bellona, a reality-shifting city of Samuel R. Delany's science fiction novel Dhalgren

See also

• B'Elanna, main character in Star Trek: Voyager