Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leonidas after Leonidas I, king of ancient Sparta. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) Leonidas ( Greek:; "Lion's son" "Lion-like" was a king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line one of the sons The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη
- The first Leonidas, 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. Frindsbury TQ744697 is a parish on the River Medway, on the opposite bank to Chatham Dockyard in Kent, England. In Britain's Royal Navy during the classic age of fighting sail a fifth-rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchal system of six "ratings" based For the bird see Frigatebird. A frigate /ˈfrɪgɪt/ is a warship
- The second Leonidas, launched in 1913, was a Laforey-class destroyer. Design The Laforeys were based on the modified ''Acasta'' class destroyer ''Fortune'' that trialled a new hull form that was slightly longer and narrower In naval terminology a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance Warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, Convoy She served with the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla and as a convoy escort in World War I and was broken up in 1922. A convoy is a group of Vehicles (of any type but usually motor vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). James Joseph Colledge (born 1908 was a noted naval Historian, author of Ships of the Royal Navy, the standard work on the fighting ships of the British Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. For a list of ships of the Royal Navy, see List of Royal Navy ships. ed. , London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose
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