title: HMS Leda
text: # HMS Leda
  
  HMS Leda may refer to one of the following ships of the British Royal Navy named after the Leda of Greek mythology:
  
  * HMS Leda (1783), a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1783 and foundered 1795
  * HMS Leda (1800), a 38-gun fifth rate launched 1800 and wrecked 1808
  * HMS Leda (1809), a 36-gun fifth rate launched 1809 and sold 1817
  * HMS Leda (1828), a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1828, used as a police hulk from 1864, and sold in 1906
  * HMS Leda (1892), a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper 1909 and sold 1920
  * HMS Leda (J93), launched in 1937, was a Halcyon-class minesweeper sunk by U-435 on 20 September 1942
  