HMS Ulysses

Four British Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Ulysses:

  • HMS Ulysses (1779), 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1779 and sold in 1816. Because Ulysses served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.[1]
  • HMS Ulysses (1913) was briefly the name of a destroyer, launched on 18 August 1913, and renamed to Lysander on 30 September 1913.
  • HMS Ulysses (1917), a modified R-class destroyer launched in 1917 and sunk in a collision in 1919
  • HMS Ulysses (R69), a World War II U-class destroyer launched in 1943, reclassified as a frigate in 1953, and sold for scrap in 1979.

In fiction

HMS Ulysses was also the name of a fictional light cruiser in a novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean.

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See also

References

  1. "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.

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