HMS Cyrus
List of ships with the same or similar names
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Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cyrus after Cyrus the Great:
- HMS Cyrus (1782) was the merchant sloop Cyrus purchased by the Royal Navy in 1782. She was commissioned as a transport and then in 1783 converted into a 16-gun armed ship. She was wrecked at Barbados on 22 April 1786.
- HMS Cyrus (1813) was a 20-gun Cyrus-class ship-sloop. She was sold on 23 May 1823.
- HMS Cyrus (1943) was a Cybele-class mine destructor vessel completed in October 1943. She was wrecked in the Seine Estuary on 5 December 1944.
References
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (3rd Rev ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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