HMS Ulysses

Four British Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Ulysses:

  • Ulysses, 44-gun fifth rate 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

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