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

*[[HMS Strombolo (1797)|''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 [[ship breaking|broken up]] in 1809.
*{{ship||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 {{ship||Nadezhda|1802 Russian ship|2}}
*''Leander'' was launched by Simon Temple, South Shields in 1800. The [[Royal Navy]] purchased her in 1803 and named her {{HMS|Curlew|1803|6}}. ''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.
*{{ship||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]].
*{{ship||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

==See also==
* {{HMS|Leander}}, various Royal Navy ships
* [[Leander class (disambiguation)|''Leander'' class (disambiguation)]], three ship classes
* [[HMNZS Leander|HMNZS ''Leander'']], a Royal New Zealand Navy light cruiser of World War II, originally HMS ''Leander'' of the British Royal Navy

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