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HMS Cyrus

list of ships with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ107404276 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “HMS Cyrus” as list of ships with the same or similar names. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1782, 1783, 1786, 1813—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cyrus, list and ships can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as list of ships with the same or similar names. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107404276. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1782, 1783, 1786 and 1813.

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This entry incorporates text from “HMS Cyrus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.