HMS Leonidas

HMS Leonidas

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Leonidas" after Leonidas I, king of ancient Sparta.

*The first "Leonidas", launched in 1807, built by John Pelham of Frindsbury was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate, used as a powder hulk from 1872 and sold in 1894.
*The second "Leonidas", launched in 1913, was a "Laforey"-class destroyer. She served with the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla and as a convoy escort in World War I and was broken up in 1922.

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