HMS Polyphemus

Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Polyphemus, after the Polyphemus of Greek mythology.

• powder hulk
  in 1813 and broken up in 1827.
• paddlewheel sloop launched in 1840 and wrecked off Jutland
  in 1856.
• HMS Polyphemus (1881) was a torpedo ram in use from 1881 to 1903.
• The Polyphemus class was a semi-submerged
  freeboard (making them unusable in rough seas) and vulnerability to enemy destroyers.^[1]
• HMS Polyphemus was to have been a Arethusa-class cruiser. However, this ship was cancelled and reordered as a new Town-class cruiser named as HMS Southampton.
• HMS Polyphemus was to have been an Centaur-class aircraft carrier of 18,300 tons, 650 ft (200 m) long, but was cancelled in October 1945.

References

Books

• Bell, Christopher (2012). Churchill and Sea Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 0-19969-357-9
  .

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