Leander (ship) explained

Several vessels have been named Leander for one the protagonists in the story of Hero and Leander in Greek mythology.

• Leander was launched in 1795 at North Shields. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1797, converted her to a bomb-vessel, and renamed her HMS Strombolo. She participated in the capture of Malta in 1800. The Navy laid her up in 1802 and had her broken up in 1809.
• was a slave ship launched on the Thames and captured in 1801.
• Leander was a ship built in 1799 which was sold to Russia in 1802, and was renamed
• Leander was launched by Simon Temple, South Shields in 1800. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 and named her . Curlew was a sloop of 16 guns. The Navy sold her in 1810 and she returned to mercantile service as Leander. On her first voyage to the West Indies a French privateer captured her in a single-ship action; she was lost shortly thereafter.
• was launched at Whitehaven. Initially she traded as a West Indiaman and then more widely. She was wrecked in July 1822 at the Cape of Good Hope.
• – a clipper built in 1867
• , in service with Neptun Line, Bremen, Germany until 1917
• , in service with Neptun Line until 1939
• Leander G, a modern cruising superyacht

See also

• , various Royal Navy ships
• Leander class (disambiguation), three ship classes
• HMNZS Leander, a Royal New Zealand Navy light cruiser of World War II, originally HMS Leander of the British Royal Navy