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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. 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.
• HMS Regulus (J327) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched at Toronto in September 1943 and originally to have been called HMCS Longbranch. In January 1945 a mine sank her off Corfu.

Sources

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

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) . 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.

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