#hms leander

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Leander, fourth rate - 52 guns, at the Battle of the Nile, 1. August, 1798 , by Geoff Hunt (1948-)

[all-action-all-picture]

Battle Modern Master Plan No. 11 - H.M.S. Leander (the name coming from Greek mythology). Decommissioned in 1987 and sunk during a naval exercise in 1989.

From Battle Picture Weekly No. 68, dated 19 June 1976. Treasury of British Comics.

[marryat92]

It is now time to make my reader acquainted with my new ship and new captain. The first was a frigate of the largest class, built on purpose to cope with the large double-banked frigates of the Yankees. She carried thirty long twenty-four pounders on her main deck, and the same number of forty-two pound carronades on her quarter gangways and forecastle.

— Frederick Marryat, Frank Mildmay

HMS 'Leander' at Sea, painting by Thomas Buttersworth (1768-1842). Leander (1813) was a large and powerful frigate ordered in response to American spar-decked frigates during the War of 1812.

[alineuponthewind]

The Bombardment of Algiers 27 August 1816 - George Chambers

[ltwilliammowett]

A small copper measure for Rum or Grog, shaped like a small pitcher, between 1780-1805

HMs Leander was a  fourth rate, with 50 guns and was launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She took part in the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and was then captured by the French. The ship was recaptured by Russia, and returned to the Royal Navy in 1799. In 1805 she captured a French Frigate named "VILLE DE MILAN" off Halifax, Nova Scotia in which a visiting U.S. Sailor was killed. This caused relations between Britain and the United States to deteriorate into what is remembered as the Leander Affair. In 1813 she was converted to being a Hospital Ship and was sold out of service in 1817.

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Leander, fourth rate - 54-gun ship, by Geoff Hunt

By 1797 the fourth-rate was not considered fit for the line of battle, yet that is where H.M.S. Leander found herself, at the Battle of the Nile on 1st August 1798. Here seen passing the grounded Culloden and the brig Mutine, Leander played a distinguished part in the ensuing night action. She was able to exploit a gap in the French line and anchor between Peuple Souverain and Franklin, from which position she raked both enemy ships while protected from their broadsides. In the battle she suffered only 14 men wounded.

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Leander at Sea by Thomas Buttersworth, 19th century

She was a Portland-class 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She served on the West Coast of Africa, West Indies, and the Halifax station. During the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in the Battle of the Nile before a French ship captured her. The Russians and Turks recaptured her and returned her to the Royal Navy in 1799. On 23 February 1805, while on the Halifax station, Leander captured the French frigate Ville de Milan and recaptured her prize, HMS Cleopatra. On 25 April 1805 cannon fire from Leander killed an American seaman while Leander was trying to search an American vessel off the US coast for contraband. The resulting “Leander Affair” contributed to the worsening of relations between the United States and Great Britain. In 1813 the Admiralty converted Leander to a hospital ship under the name Hygeia. Hygeia was sold in 1817.

[alineuponthewind]

Action between H.M.S. Leander and Le Genereux, 18 August 1798 -  C. H. Seaforth