HMS Leonidas
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Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leonidas after Leonidas I, king of ancient Sparta.
- The first Leonidas, launched in 1807, 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.
[edit] References
- J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
