title: Leander (ship)
text: # 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 (1799 ship) 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. 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 (1813 ship) 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 (clipper) – 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
  