HMS Levant
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Two ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Levant, after the Levant
, an historic name for the Eastern Mediterranean. A third was to have been renamed Levant, but this was never carried out:
was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and broken up by 1780.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Levant, after the Levant
Levant
The Levant or ) is the geographic region and culture zone of the "eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt" . The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and sometimes parts of Turkey and Iraq, and corresponds roughly to the...
, an historic name for the Eastern Mediterranean. A third was to have been renamed Levant, but this was never carried out:
was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and broken up by 1780.
- HMS Levant was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the Danes in 1807 as . She was to have been renamed in 1809, but instead was reduced to harbour service that year and was sold in 1815. was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1813. She was briefly captured in 1813, but was soon recaptured, and was broken up in 1820.