HMS Leopard (1790)

History
United Kingdom
NameLeopard
Ordered
  • 16 October 1775
  • Reordered in May 1785
Builder
Laid down
  • January 1776 (Portsmouth)
  • 7 May 1785 (Sheerness)
Launched24 April 1790
CompletedBy 26 May 1790
ReclassifiedTroopship in 1812
Honours and
awards
Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"[1]
FateWrecked on 28 June 1814
General characteristics
Class and type50-gun Portland class fourth rate
Tons burthen1,055 7594 (bm)
Length
  • 146 ft 5 in (44.6 m) (overall)
  • 120 ft 0+34 in (36.6 m) (keel)
Beam40 ft 8 in (12.4 m)
Depth of hold17 ft 6 in (5.33 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement350
Armament
  • Upper deck: 22 × 12-pounder guns
  • Lower deck: 22 × 24-pounder guns
  • QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable for the actions of her captain in 1807, which were emblematic of the tensions that later erupted in the War of 1812 between Britain and America. She was wrecked in 1814.

  1. ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.