High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Ulysses (ARB-9) was an Aristaeus-class repair ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Ulysses (a character in Greek mythology and the protagonist of Homer`s epic poem, the Odyssey, which tells of his arduous voyage back to Ithaca, his home, after the Trojan War), she was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.