HMS Ulysses
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Four British Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Ulysses:
- Ulysses, 44, a fifth rate 887 ton ship launched in 1779 and sold in 1816
- Ulysses was briefly the name of a destroyer, launched on 18 August 1913, and renamed to Lysander on 30 September 1913.
- Ulysses, a modified R-class destroyer launched in 1917 and sunk in a collision in 1919
- Ulysses, a World War II U-class destroyer launched in 1943 and, following reclassification as a frigate in 1953, sold for scrap in 1979.
HMS Ulysses was also the name of a fictional light cruiser in a novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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