HMS Levant

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Levant, after the Levant, an historic name for the Eastern Mediterranean. A third was to have been renamed Levant, but this was never carried out:

• HMS Levant (1758) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and broken up by 1780.
• was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the Danes in 1807 as . She was to have been renamed in 1809, but instead was reduced to harbour service that year and was sold in 1815.
• HMS Levant (1813) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1813. She was briefly captured in 1813, but was soon recaptured, and was broken up in 1820.

References[]

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2010) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (4th Rev. ed.). Newbury: Casemate. ISBN 978-1-935149-07-1.

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