HMS Lys

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lys:

HMS Lys (1745), a 24-gun sixth-rate vessel, captured from the French in 1745 and sold in 1749.
HMS Lys (1755), a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line, captured from the French in 1755, commissioned for a single trans-Atlantic voyage and sold in the same year.

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