title: HMS Leven
text: # HMS Leven
  
  Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leven, probably after the River Leven, Fife in Scotland.
  
  * HMS Leven (1813) was a 20-gun sixth-rate Cyrus-class post ship launched in 1813. Under the command of William Fitzwilliam Owen she surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–26. She was broken up in 1848.
  * HMS Leven (1857) was an Algerine-class gunboat launched in 1857. She fought in the Second Anglo-Chinese War and in 1860 became the last Royal Navy ship from which a man was "hanged from the yard-arm". She was broken up in 1873.
  * HMS Leven (1898) was a Gipsy-class destroyer launched in 1898. She served in the Home Fleet and the Dover Patrol in World War I and was broken up in 1920.
  
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