HMS Levant explained

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Levant, after the Levant, an historic name for the Eastern Mediterranean. A third was to have been renamed Levant, but this was never carried out:

• was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and broken up by 1780.
• HMS Levant was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the Danes in 1807 as . She was to have been renamed in 1809, but instead was reduced to harbour service that year and was sold in 1815.
• was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1813. She was briefly captured in 1813, but was soon recaptured, and was broken up in 1820.