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.

See also

• MV Ulysses, for motor vessels named Ulysses
• SS Ulysses, for steamships named Ulysses
• USS Ulysses,for United States Navy vessels
• Ulysses (disambiguation)

References

1. The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.

Sources

• This article includes data released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported UK: England & Wales License, 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. OCLC 67375475.