HMS Leopard

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

• The first Leopard was a ship of 34 guns, which was launched in 1635 and was captured in 1653 by the Dutch.
• The second leopard was a ship with 54 guns, which was launched in 1659 and sunk as a breakwater in 1699.
• The third was a leopard Brander with six guns, which was bought in 1672 and burned in 1673.
• The fourth Leopard was a ship with 54 cannons, which launched in 1703 and scrapped in 1739.
• The fifth Leopard was a ship with 50 guns, which was placed in service in 1741 and retired in 1761.
• The sixth HMS Leopard was a ship of the line fourth class with 50 guns, which launched in 1790 and was known by the Chesapeake - Leopard Affair of 1807. It was in 1812 converted into a troop ship and sank in 1814 by stranding on an island in the estuary of the St. Lawrence River.
• The seventh Leopard was a small, bought in 1794, before Dutch ship with four guns, which in 1808 sold again. Since she was no ship in rank organization, she was not wearing the abbreviation HMS, but HMAV, ie Her Majesty's Armed Vessel.
• The eighth HMS Leopard was a frigate with wooden hull and paddle wheel, which was launched in 1850 and was sold in 1867.
• The ninth HMS Leopard was a destroyer of the C-Class, which was launched in 1897 and was decommissioned in 1919.
• A battle cruiser of the Tiger class should be named HMS Leopard, but was not built.
• The tenth HMS Leopard was a stack overflowed in 1927 by a French destroyer, which taken in 1940 by the Royal Navy, and later the Free French Forces was passed in 1943 and fell in Benghazi.
• The eleventh HMS Leopard was a frigate and eponymous for the Leopard class. She ran in 1955 by Stack, and was scrapped in 1977.

• Name of ship of the Royal Navy