HMS Regulus

Four vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Regulus, after the star:

• HMS Regulus was a wooden fifth rate 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] The ship was broken up in March 1816.
• HMS Regulus was the French privateer Regulus that HMS Princess Charlotte captured in December 1804; it is not clear that she ever served and she was last listed in 1806.
• HMS Regulus 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 was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched at Toronto in September 1943. Originally to have been called HMCS Longbranch,^[2] the ship was sunk in January 1945 by a mine off Corfu.^[4]

Sources

1. The London Gazette: no. 21077. pp. 791–792. 15 March 1850.
2. "HMS Regulus - R-class Submarine". NavalHistory.net. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
3. "HMS Regulus (i) (N 88)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
4. "HMS Regulus (ii) - Algerine-class Fleet Minesweeper". NavalHistory.net. Retrieved 2008-10-26.

References

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.