Three ships and one shore establishment of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
have borne the name HMS ''Osiris'', after the
Egyptian god
Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt. The beliefs and rituals surrounding these gods formed the core of ancient Egyptian religion, which emerged sometime in prehistory. Deities represented natural fo ...
Osiris
Osiris (, from Egyptian ''wsjr'', cop, ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ , ; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓, romanized: ʾsr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was ...
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* was an launched in 1916 and sold in 1921.
* was an launched in 1928 and sold in 1946, being broken up in 1952.
* was an launched in 1962 and sold to Canada in 1992, where she was dismantled for spare parts and broken up that year.
* was a shore establishment in Egypt in the late 1940s/early 1950s.
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Royal Navy ship names