HMS Spartan

HMS Spartan may refer to one of these vessels of the British Royal Navy named in recognition of the military abilities of the Spartans of ancient Greece.
 * HMS Spartan (1806) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1806 and broken up in 1822
 * HMS Spartan was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate; ordered from Plymouth Dockyard in 1824, the ship was cancelled in 1831
 * HMS Spartan (1841) was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1841 and sold in 1862
 * HMS Spartan (1868) was an Eclipse-class sloop wooden screw sloop launched in 1868 and sold in 1882
 * HMS Spartan (1891) was a second class cruiser launched in 1891, sent to harbour service in 1907, renamed Defiance in 1921, and sold in 1931
 * HMS Spartan (95) was a Dido-class cruiser launched in 1942 and sunk in 1944 by a Hs 293 guided bomb
 * HMS Spartan (S105) is a nuclear-powered Swiftsure-class submarine launched in 1978

Battle Honours

 * Bay of Naples, 1810
 * Burma, 1853
 * China, 1856–57
 * Atlantic, 1943
 * Mediterranean, 1944
 * Anzio, 1944
 * Falklands, 1982