HMS Regulus
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Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Regulus, after the star:
- HMS Regulus (1785) was a fifth rate ship of 44 guns, launched at Northam in January 1785 and converted to a troopship in 1793. Because Regulus 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] Regulus was broken up in March 1816.
- HMS Regulus (N88) was a Rainbow-class submarine launched at Barrow-in-Furness in June 1930 and lost in December 1940, possibly sunk by a mine near Taranto, Southern Italy.[2][3]
- HMS Regulus (J327) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched at Toronto in September 1943 and originally to have been called HMCS Longbranch.[2] In January 1945 a mine sank her off Corfu.[4]
