Leander (ship)

Several vessels have been named Leander for one the protagonists in the story of Hero and Leander in Greek mythology.


 * Leander was launched in 1795 at North Shields. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1797, converted her to a bomb-vessel, and renamed her HMS Strombolo. She participated in the capture of Malta in 1800. The Navy laid her up in 1802 and had her broken up in 1809.
 * Leander was a slave ship launched on the Thames and captured in 1801.
 * Leander was a ship built in 1799 which was sold to Russia in 1802, and was renamed Nadezhda
 * Leander was launched by Simon Temple, South Shields in 1800. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 and named her HMS Curlew (1803). Curlew was a sloop of 16 guns. The Navy sold her in 1810 and she returned to mercantile service as Leander. On her first voyage to the West Indies a French privateer captured her in a single-ship action; she was lost shortly thereafter.
 * Leander was launched at Whitehaven. Initially she traded as a West Indiaman and then more widely. She was wrecked in July 1822 at the Cape of Good Hope.
 * Leander – a clipper built in 1867
 * SS Leander (1883), in service with Neptun Line, Bremen, Germany until 1917
 * SS Leander (1925), in service with Neptun Line until 1939
 * Leander G, a modern cruising superyacht