HMS Leonidas

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

• The first HMS Leonidas (1807), 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 HMS Leonidas (1913), 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.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.