HMS Leopard

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Eleven ships of the British Royal Navy were named Leopard or HMS Leopard and were named after the leopard .

  • The first Leopard was a 34-cannon ship launched in 1635 and captured by the Dutch in 1653.
  • The second Leopard was a 54-gun ship launched in 1659 and sunk as a breakwater in 1699.
  • The third Leopard was a Brander with six guns, which was bought in 1672 and burned 1,673th
  • The fourth Leopard was a 54-gun ship launched in 1703 and scrapped in 1739.
  • The fifth Leopard was a 50-gun ship that entered service in 1741 and retired in 1761.
  • The sixth HMS Leopard was a fourth class ship of the line with 50 guns, launched in 1790 and made famous by the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair of 1807. It was converted into a troop transport in 1812 and sank in 1814 when it ran aground on an island in the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River .
  • The seventh Leopard was a small, previously Dutch, four-gun ship bought in 1794 that was sold again in 1808. Since she was not a ranked ship, she did not have the abbreviation HMS , but HMAV , i. H. Her Majesty's Armed Vessel .
  • The eighth HMS Leopard was a wooden hull, paddle-wheel drive frigate launched in 1850 and sold in 1867.
  • The ninth HMS Leopard was a destroyer of the C-Class , which was launched in 1897 and was retired 1919th
  • A battle cruiser of the Tiger class should be named HMS Leopard received, but was not built.
  • The tenth HMS Leopard was a French destroyer launched in 1927, taken over by the Royal Navy in 1940, later handed over to the Free French Armed Forces and sunk at Benghazi in 1943 .
  • The eleventh HMS Leopard was a frigate and gave its name to the Leopard class . It was launched in 1955 and scrapped in 1977.