![]() Action between H.M.S. Leander and the French National Ship Le Généreux, August 18th 1798, C. H. Seaforth. Généreux visible in the front, Leander damaged in background.
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Name | HMS Leander |
Namesake | Hero and Leander |
Ordered | 21 June & 25 July 1776 |
Builder | Chatham Dockyard, M/Shipwright Israel Pownoll to April 1779; completed by Nicholas Phillips[1] |
Laid down | 1 March 1777 |
Launched | 1 July 1780 |
Honours and awards | Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Nile" |
Fate | Captured 18 August 1798 by the French Navy |
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Name | Leander |
Acquired | By capture 18 August 1798 |
Captured | 3 March 1799 by the Russian Navy |
Fate | Returned to the Royal Navy |
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Name | HMS Leander |
Acquired | Returned by Russian Navy |
Renamed | Hygeia, in 1813 |
Reclassified | Converted to hospital ship 1813 |
Fate | Sold 1817 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | 50-gun fourth rate |
Tons burthen | 1,052 46⁄94 (bm) |
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Beam | 40 ft 8 in (12.4 m) |
Draught | 17 ft 5 in (5.3 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
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HMS Leander 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.
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