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 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
editHMS Ulysses was also the name of a fictional light cruiser in a novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean.
See also
edit- MV Ulysses, for motor vessels named Ulysses
- SS Ulysses, for steamships named Ulysses
- USS Ulysses, for United States Navy vessels
- Ulysses (disambiguation)
References
edit- ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
Sources
edit- This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales Licence, by the National Maritime Museum, as part of the Warship Histories project.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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