HMS Cyrus
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.