HMS Leven explained

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leven, probably after the River Leven, Fife in Scotland.

• was a 20-gun sixth-rate launched in 1813. Under the command of William Fitzwilliam Owen she surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–26. She was broken up in 1848.
• was an launched in 1857. She fought in the Second Anglo-Chinese War and in 1860 became the last Royal Navy ship from which a man was "hanged from the yard-arm". She was broken up in 1873.
• was a launched in 1898. She served in the Home Fleet and the Dover Patrol in World War I and was broken up in 1920.

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• was an armed trawler launched in 1928 and taken up by the Admiralty in 1939 for minesweeping. She was returned to trade in 1946 and scrapped in 1954.