*2 × twin, 10 × single BL 6-inch Mk VII guns
*10 × single QF 12-pdr 12 cwt guns
*3 × QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns
*2 × single 18-inch torpedo tubes

Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Egypt"

pennant number: L88

Flight deck can support aircraft up to Westland Sea King-size but has operated Chinook which landed thwartships

HMS Legion

September 1945

HMS Lamerton

HMS Lancaster is a Duke class Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 May 1990 and is known as "The Queen's Frigate", the Duke of Lancaster being a subsidiary title of the Sovereign. Being the third ship in the Type 23 class, Lancaster was originally allocated the pennant number F232 until it was realised that the 232 is the Royal Navy report form for groundings and collisions and therefore considered unlucky. She is one of the few stag ships left in the fleet, she has some female officers but the mess decks are men-only. It is quite common when she has returned from long operations that she is flown over by the Avro Lancaster bomber which is part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Coningsby.

Preston–Larne

USS Lawford (DE-516)

HMS Latona

India

Lady Speed, wife of then Navy Minister Keith Speed

HMS Leander

HMS LST 3515

HMS Le Canton (1782)

*6 × QF Mark XVI guns on twin mounts HA/LA Mk.XIX
*4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk.VIII on quadruple mount Mk.VII
*8 × 0.5-inch (12.7 mm) Vickers machine guns on quadruple mount Mk.I
*156 mines

HMS Leeds Castle (P258)

HMS Lee was a Doxford three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1898 – 1899 Naval Estimates. She was the sixth ship to carry this name since its introduction in 1776 for a 6-gun sloop for service on the Great Lakes.

* standard
* full

Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

HMS Lawford (K514) was a Royal Navy converted Captain class frigate (pennant DE-516), built in the US in 1944. She was converted into an HQ ship for the Normandy landings. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno Beach, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk. Thirty-seven of her crew died. The Royal Navy's damage summary report states that the ship was hit by an "aerial torpedo", which has been taken to mean a torpedo dropped from an aircraft. However, a survey of the ship undertaken as part of the Channel 4 TV series "Wreck Detectives" found evidence that the vessel was broken up and sunk by an internal explosion, indicating a hit from one or more bombs or from an early guided missile such as an Hs-293 or (less likely) a Fritz X. The ship was sunk by KG 100.Further consideration suggests that the term "aerial torpedo" used in the RN damage summaries was actually intended to refer to guided missiles.The wreck lies in 21 meters of water at 49°25′43″N 00°23′47″W.

* standard
* full load

HMS LST 3512

HMS Lark was a 32-gun Richmond-class frigate fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1762 and destroyed in Narragansett Bay in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.Between 29 May and 18 July, the British captured a number of vessels: the sloops Sally and Fancy, snow Baron D'Ozell, Olive Branch, sloop Betsey, and schooner Sally. Lark shared the prize money with Kingfisher, Hope, Sphinx, and the Pigot galley.French Admiral d'Estaing's squadron arrived in Narragansett Bay on 29 July 1778 to support the American army under General George Washington during the battle of Rhode Island. On 30 July, four French ships of the line entered Narrangansett Bay and positioned themselves north of Conanicut Island to support the American and French forces in the battle of Rhode Island. The arrival of the French vessels trapped several British vessels, Lark among them. On 5 August 1778, as Lark lay off Newport, Captain Richard Smith had her set on fire and her cables cut. She then drifted on to shore. The Royal Navy ended up having to destroy ten of their own vessels in all.The remains of Lark are now part of a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the "Wreck Sites of HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark."

November 1800

HMS Largs Bay

Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Nile"

HMS Leeds Castle

*11,000 nmi at 10 knots.
*725 tons coal normal, 1000 tons maximum = c. 6,000 nmi at economical speed.

HMS Lasham (M2636)

HMS Legion (1939)

HMS Lancaster

HMS Lappland

HMS Lapwing was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named after Vanellus vanellus, the northern lapwing.

Broken up, 1773

* between perpendiculars.
* overall.

HMS Lance was a Laforey-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched a few months before the outbreak of the First World War and attached to the Harwich Force, Lance took part in several engagements during the war, including the sinking of the Königin Luise and the Battle off Texel. She was responsible for firing the first British shot of the war.

*Atlantic Steam Navigation Company
*British-India Steam Navigation Company

*1 × 4-inch Quick Firing Mk.XIX High Angle/Low Angle combined air/surface gun
*1 × Squid anti-submarine mortar
*1 × Depth charge rail, 15 depth charges
*2 × 20 mm twin anti-aircraft cannon
*6 × 20 mm single anti-aircraft cannon

*3 × QF Mk IV guns, mounting P Mk. IX
*1 × QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II
*2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes

United Kingdom

HMS Landrail

*Royal Navy
*Ministry of Transport

Napier, Glasgow

May 1793

Lacédémonienne

HMS Leamington was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was not finished in time to participate in the First World War and was sold for scrap in 1928.

Leander

HMS Lancaster (1722)

February 1941

HMS Laburnum

Damaged by bombs on 5 and 9 April 1942. Declared a constructive total loss and scrapped.

HMS Leeds Castle (F384)

pennant number: D93

HMS Laurel (1779)

HMS Lagos was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named in honour of the Battle of Lagos which happened in 1759 off the coast of Portugal, between the Royal Navy and a French fleet, resulting in a British victory.

William Weatherhead & Sons, Cockenzie

*Empire Baltic

* Three Parsons Turbines
* Three Yarrows boilers
* Three shafts

HMS Leander (1882)

HMS Lauderdale

HMS Lassoo

HMS Latona was an Abdiel-class minelayer of the Royal Navy. She served briefly during the Second World War, but was sunk less than six months after commissioning.

* SeaFox mine disposal system
* Diver-placed explosive charges

Sails and screw. Two shafts. Two cylinder horizontal direct acting compound engines, 12 cylindrical boilers, 5,500 IHP.

October 1790

HMS Landfall

HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Leda's design was based on the French Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. (Hébé herself was the name vessel for the French Hébé-class frigates.

HMS Larne was an 18-gun Comet-class sloop built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. She was broken up in 1866.

Scrapped, 1959

* 6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI on twin mounts Mk. XIX
* 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
* 2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
* 110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

*46 guns:
*Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pdr cannon
*Quarterdeck: 14 × 32-pdr carronades
*Forecastle: 2 × 9-pdr cannon and 2 × 32-pdr carronades

HMS Leander was a 50-gun spar-decked frigate (rated in the fourth rate) of the Royal Navy which saw service in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Second Barbary War.Leander and her near sister HMS Newcastle were a new type of ship in the Royal Navy, being exceptionally large and powerful frigates. They were ordered in response to the threat posed by the heavy American spar-decked frigates, during the War of 1812.

HMS Laurentic (F51)

On a Field Red two antlers, suspended from the tines a bugle horn, stringed Gold.

*
*4 × Yarrow boilers

Scrapped in Greece 1960

HMS Laertes was a Laforey-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s.

pennant number: L95

*UD: 28 x 18-pounder guns
*QD: 8 x 6-pounder guns + 6 x 18-pounder carronades
*Fc: 2 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades
*Also 14 swivels

*
*31 water-tube boilers

United States

Greece

HMS Lanka

HMS Launceston Castle

pennant number K423

HMS Lapwing

title

Pennant number: K46

HMS Legion was a Laforey-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s.

HMS Lacedaemonian

MV Charles Plumier

HMS Ladybird

Pigot

* p/p
* o/a

HMS Landguard (Y56)

Hebe

HMS Lady Prevost

Loaned to the Royal Hellenic Navy in 1946

HMS La Malouine was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War. Originally ordered by the French Navy (Marine Nationale) under the same name, following the fall of France, the ship was seized by the United Kingdom and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1940. The corvette remained in service until being broken up in 1947.

*Two shafts
*Two geared steam turbines
*Two drum type boilers
*48,000 shp

Thomas Pitcher, Northfleet

Sold to Greek Cruise company

unnamed

HMS Lassoo was a Laforey-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s.

May 1828

August 1942

April 1987

HMS Laurel

HMS La Malouine (K46)

Pennant number K516

*Cook, Welton & Gemmell
*

February 1783

o/a

HMS Lamerton was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Indian Navy in 1952, where she served as INS Gomati.Following the war, early in 1946, she was reduced to Reserve status at Harwich.

HMS Lancaster was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 3 April 1694.She was rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, from where she was relaunched on 1 September 1722. After this time, her armament of 80 guns, previously carried on two gundecks, was carried on three, though she continued to be classified as a third rate. On 15 February 1743 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard as a 66-gun third rate according to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. This rebuild returned her to a two-decker, and she was relaunched on 22 April 1749.Lancaster was broken up in 1773.

HMS Leander (F109)

August 1946

Sold, 1832

William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland

HMS Leander was a Portland-class 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She served on the West Coast of Africa, West Indies, and the Halifax station. During the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in the Battle of the Nile before a French ship captured her. The Russians and Turks recaptured her and returned her to the Royal Navy in 1799. On 23 February 1805, while on the Halifax station, Leander captured the French frigate Ville de Milan and recaptured her prize, HMS Cleopatra. On 25 April 1805 cannon fire from Leander killed an American seaman while Leander was trying to search an American vessel off the US coast for contraband. The resulting "Leander Affair" contributed to the worsening of relations between the United States and Great Britain. In 1813 the Admiralty converted Leander to a hospital ship under the name Hygeia. Hygeia was sold in 1817.

*3 × QF Mark IV guns
*2 × QF 1.5-pounder (37 mm) or QF 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-pom" anti-aircraft guns
*2 × twin torpedo tubes

December 1979

Blyth Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

La Malouine

HMS Lagos

HMS Lance

HMS Laverock was a Laforey-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1913 and entered service in October 1914. Laverock served through the First World War, operating with the Harwich Force and in the English Channel. She was sold for scrap in 1921.

HMS Laertes

HMS Lark (1880)

Lagos

* UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1
* Seagnat
* Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
* Surface Ship Torpedo Defence

*95 tons coal
* at

Recaptured by Royal Navy

June 1813

*Unladen:
*Laden:

*1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt Mark I L/40 naval gun on a P Mark I Low angle mount
*5 × QF 6-pdr 8 cwt naval gun L/40 Naval gun on a Mark I* low angle mount
*2 × single tubes for 18-inch (450mm) torpedoes

HMS Legere (1797)

HMS Laforey

HMS Languedoc

HMS Lancaster (1694)

* Royal Navy
* London, United Kingdom
* Royal Navy

HMS La Hogue (1811)

HMS Latona (M76)

HMS LST 3519 was a Landing Ship, Tank of the Royal Navy, entering service during the last months of the Second World War. She was chartered for civilian service as the Empire Baltic from 1946, serving as an early RO-RO ferry until the navy suspended the charter and requisitioned the ship during the Suez Crisis in 1956. She briefly returned to normal service, but was retired soon after and was eventually sold for breaking up.

HMS Leander (1800)

HMS Lacedemonian

* 4 × twin QF Mk XVI guns
* 1 × quadruple QF 2 pdr Mk VIII L/39
* 2 × quadruple QF 0.5 in Mk III Vickers
* 2 × quadruple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes torpedo tubes

HMS Ledbury (L90)

HMS Larne

*1 × QF gun
*1 × anti-aircraft gun

HMS Ledbury

by Royal Navy November 1941

Scrapped 1960

*The Red Rose Frigate

HMS Leeds Castle (1944)

HMS Laura (1805)

pennant number: L90

HMS Leander was a second class cruiser, name ship of the Royal Navy's first Leander-class cruisers. During a revolution in Panama in 1900, Leander helped protect the lives and property of foreign residents.

*Upper deck: 30 × 24-pounder guns
*Spar deck: 26 × 42-pounder carronades
*Fc: 4 × 24-pounder guns

*Upperdeck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
*QD: 4 × 6-pounder guns
*Fc: 2 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Ledbury was an escort destroyer of the Hunt class Type II. The Royal Navy ordered Ledbury's construction two days after the outbreak of the Second World War and J. I. Thornycroft Ltd laid down her keel at their Southampton yard on 24 January 1940. Air raid damage to the yard delayed her construction and she did not launch until 27 September 1941. Her initial assignment was to perform escort duties between Scapa Flow and Iceland. She remained in this theatre for the first part of the war, during which time she served with the ill-fated Arctic convoy PQ 17 in June 1942, from which twenty-four ships were lost.Only two months later she took up the role of close escort in the Pedestal convoy to Malta. During the fierce attacks that dogged the convoy, Ledbury claimed three enemy aircraft destroyed and five damaged, and was one of three destroyers that helped the crippled oil tanker Ohio into the Grand Harbour. She added to her battle honours with the Allied landings in Sicily, Salerno, and operations in the Adriatic and Aegean. The Royal Navy finally scrapped Ledbury in 1958.

HMS Lancaster was one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Upon completion she was assigned to the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet. She remained there until 1912 when she returned home to be placed in reserve. The ship was recommissioned in 1913 for service with the 4th Cruiser Squadron on the North America and West Indies Station. She remained there until she was assigned to the Grand Fleet in 1915. She was transferred to the Pacific in 1916 and she became flagship of the Eastern Squadron in 1918. The ship was sold for scrap in 1920.

*66 guns:
*Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
*Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
*Quarterdeck: 10 × 9 pdrs
*Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs

Sunk on 11 December 1941 by torpedo from U374 duringWorld War II(Straits of Gibraltar 35.59N, 05.17W)

deadweight 2386 tons

April 1889

HMS Lancaster (F229)

Sold 1981 to Scotroy

HMS Latona was an Apollo-class protected cruiser of the Royal Navy which served from 1890 to 1920.

Chantiers & Ateliers de Provence at Port de Bouc

*Four General Motors 278A 16-cylinder engines
*GE generators
*GE electric motors for
*Two shafts

*LST 3041
*Empire Doric
*''LST 3041

* Atlantic, 1941–42
* Arctic, 1942
* North Africa, 1942–43
* Sicily, 1943
* Salerno, 1943
* Mediterranean, 1944
* Aegean, 1943
* Adriatic, 1944

January 1806

HMS LST 3519

*Belt:
*Decks:
*Barbettes:
*Turrets:
*Conning tower:
*Bulkheads:

HMS Leda

HMS Larne (G63)

HMS Laura (1806)

Transferred to Royal Navy under Lend-Lease

Larne

Scrapped 1967

HMS Lasham

HMS Laura

*3 × /50 Mk.22 guns
*1 × twin Bofors 40 mm mount Mk.I
*7–16 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
*Mark 10 Hedgehog antisubmarine mortar
*Depth charges
*QF 2-pounder naval gun

HMS Lawford (K514)

Thomas Sutton, Ringmore, Devon
HMS Landrail was a Cuckoo-class schooner built by Thomas Sutton at Ringmore, Teignmouth. Like all her class she carried four 12-pounder carronades and had a crew of 20. She had a relatively uneventful career during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 until 1814 when she was taken in a notable action, and then retaken. She was sold in approximately 1818.

* 3 × QF Mk IV guns
* 1 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) AA pom-pom Mk. II gun
* 4 × torpedo tubes

HMS Laforey (G99)

minelayer

HMS Lady Cory-Wright

HMS Leander was a Portland-class 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She served on the West Coast of Africa, West Indies, and the Halifax station. During the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in the Battle of the Nile before a French ship captured her. The Russians and Turks recaptured her and returned her to the Royal Navy in 1799.

*1,050 tons standard;
*1,430 tons full load

Sold in 1921

HMS Lark

HMS Leander was a 50-gun spar-decked frigate (rated in the fourth rate) of the Royal Navy which saw service in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Second Barbary War.Leander and her near sister HMS Newcastle were a new type of ship in the Royal Navy, being exceptionally large and powerful frigates. They were ordered in response to the threat posed by the heavy American spar-decked frigates, during the War of 1812. Leander proved a successful ship, which operated in squadrons which chased the American frigates, but ultimately failed to catch them before the war ended. Refitted to serve as flagships for admirals on foreign stations, Leander saw action with Admiral Edward Pellew's fleet at the bombardment of Algiers in 1816, firing over 3,000 round shot and sustaining severe casualties. She spent some time as the flagship on the North American Station, followed by in the East Indies, before returning to Britain in 1822 and being laid up the following year as a receiving ship. She spent the rest of her career in this role, until being broken up in 1830.

*1 × BL Mk IX gun
*1 × QF 2-pounder pom-pom
*two .50-inch twin machine guns,
*two .303-inch Lewis machine guns
*two stern depth charge racks with 40 depth charges

HMS Lawson

Sail

*HMS LST 3519

LST 3041 was a Landing Ship, Tank that served in the Royal Navy at the end of World War II, before being converted to a commercial ferry. She was later requisitioned by the Navy during the Suez Crisis, and was scrapped in 1960.

HMS Lacedemonian (or Lacedaemonian) was the French brig Lacedemonienne, launched in 1793, that the British captured in 1796 near Barbados. She was at the capture of Saint Lucia in May of the next year, but the French re-captured her a year after that.

HMS Lady Shirley (T464), also known as HMT Lady Shirley, was a fishing trawler requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1940 and converted for anti-submarine warfare duties. She sank U-111 on 4 October 1941, capturing 44 of her crew. Lady Shirley was sunk herself on 11 December 1941, by a single torpedo from U-374

HMS Lapwing (1785)

HMS Laurel (T 29)

*2 × Parsons steam turbines
*water-tube boilers
*2 × shafts

HMS Lawford

HMS Lancaster was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 3 April 1694.She was rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, from where she was relaunched on 1 September 1722. After this time, her armament of 80 guns, previously carried on two gundecks, was carried on three, though she continued to be classified as a third rate.

* Flight deck
* Enclosed hangar

HMS Landrail (1806)

destroyer

Returned to the Royal Navy
Chatham Dockyard, M/Shipwright Israel Pownoll to April 1779; completed by Nicholas Phillips

*4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
*4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
*2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
*2 × torpedo tubes
*110 depth charges, 4 throwers, 3 racks

HMS Ladybird was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916. This class are also referred to as "large China gunboats". Originally built to patrol the River Danube during World War I, she sailed for China from Malta in February 1927 to serve on the Yangtze River.

Schooner

*
* full

HMS Lark (1794)

HMS LST 3041

*The Queen's Frigate,

*80 guns:
* Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs
* Middle gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
* Upper gundeck: 24 × 6 pdrs
* Quarterdeck: 4 × 6 pdrs

Wyatt, Bursledon

*2,325 tons standard
*3,430 tons full load

*1 × Lynx HMA8, armed with;
* 4 × Sea Skua anti ship missiles, or
* 2 × anti submarine torpedoes
*or
*1 × Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
* 4 × anti submarine torpedoes

HMS Ledsham

* standard
* full load
* o/a
* Beam
* Draught

HMS Leander (75)

Aigaion

HMS Lee was a 20-gun Cyrus-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1814 by Josiah and Thomas Brindley, nephews to Lord Nelson, at one of their three yards in Frindsbury in Kent.The Lee was first commissioned in January 1815 under Captain James Bremer. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in August 1815 Captain John Pasco was given command of HMS Lee and was employed in the English Channel for the suppression of smuggling. He remained her captain until Lee was paid off in September 1818. Lee was retained in ordinary for another four years before she was sold for breaking up in May 1822.

*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19,000 shp

Sold 1817

HMS Ledbury was an escort destroyer of the Hunt class Type II. The Royal Navy ordered Ledbury's construction two days after the outbreak of the Second World War and J. I. Thornycroft Ltd laid down her keel at their Southampton yard on 24 January 1940. Air raid damage to the yard delayed her construction and she did not launch until 27 September 1941. Her initial assignment was to perform escort duties between Scapa Flow and Iceland.

HMS Laburnum (T48)

*2 × Yarrow boilers
*

HMS Lancaster is a Duke class Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 May 1990 and is known as "The Queen's Frigate", the Duke of Lancaster being a subsidiary title of the Sovereign. Being the third ship in the Type 23 class, Lancaster was originally allocated the pennant number F232 until it was realised that the 232 is the Royal Navy report form for groundings and collisions and therefore considered unlucky.

*Two fire tube boilers
*one 4-cycle triple-expansion steam engine
*

*4 × Thornycroft water tube boiler
*2 × Vertical Triple Expansion steam engines driving 2 shafts producing

HMS Latona (1779)

*
* UK

HMS Leander (1780)

HMS Lawson (K516) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as the United States Navy Evarts-class destroyer escort DE-518, she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946.

HMS Lark was a 32-gun Richmond-class frigate fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1762 and destroyed in Narragansett Bay in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.Between 29 May and 18 July, the British captured a number of vessels: the sloops Sally and Fancy, snow Baron D'Ozell, Olive Branch, sloop Betsey, and schooner Sally.

*6 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
*4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII on quad mount MK.VII
*2 × 20 mm Oerlikons on single mounts P Mk. III
*
*110 depth charges, 2 throwers, 3 racks

INS Gomati

HMS Legion (1914)

Edward Greaves's yard at Limehouse

On a Field Blue, a lion's gamb Gold holding a torch in flamed Proper.

HMS Laurel (1651)

Sunk as target 1989

Never

July 1828

Scrapped at Rosyth in April 1958

HMS Lee (1814)

unnamed (DE-518)

April 1813

*Lower deck: 22 x 24-pounder guns
*Upper deck: 22 x 12-pounder guns
*QD: 4 x 6-pounder guns
*Fc: 2 x 6-pounder guns

HMS LST 3014

Qui patitur vincit

On a Field barry wavy of eight White and Blue a branch of oak tree Green fructed Gold

HMS Latona was a 38-gun, 18-pounder gun armed fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1781. She served in the American revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars. Latona was hulked in 1813 and sold for breaking up in 1816.

Lee

Ship in active service

HMS Leamington

HMS Laertes (1913)

*Atlantic 1942
*North Sea 1942
*Sicily 1943
*Mediterranean 1943
*South France 1944
*Adriatic 1944

HMS Laura was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Bermuda. Laura served during the Napoleonic Wars before a French privateer captured her at the beginning of the War of 1812. She was briefly an American letter of marque before the British recaptured her in 1813. Despite having recaptured her, the British did not return Laura to service.

October 1914

HMS Lancaster was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 January 1797 at Rotherhithe. She was designed and built as the East Indiaman Pigot for the British East India Company, but the Navy purchased her on the stocks because of a shortage of naval vessels to prosecute the French Revolutionary Wars.

HMS Lawson (K516)

Lancashire

Returned to the Royal Navy December 1959

HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Leda's design was based on the French Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. (Hébé herself was the name vessel for the French Hébé-class frigates. Hébé, therefore, has the rare distinction of being the model for both a French and a British frigate class.) Leda was wrecked at the mouth of Milford Haven in 1808, Capt Honeyman was exonerated of all blame, as it was a pilot error.

MV Pleias

Captured 18 August 1798 by the French Navy

Pennant number: M30

pennant number: G74

HMS Latona (1781)

Swan Hunter

HMS Lance was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She entered service during World War II, and had a short but eventful career, serving in Home waters and the Mediterranean Sea. She was damaged in two consecutive air attacks at Malta in 1942. She was towed back to Britain, declared a constructive total loss and was scrapped. She had been adopted by the civil community of Bexley and Welling, Kent in November 1941.

William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd

HMS Labuan

Wrecked 31 January 1808 off West Angle, Milford Haven, Wales,UK

Vestigia nostra cavate: 'Beware our tracks'

Great Britain

Type 23 Frigate

*2 × water-tube boilers
*1 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine
*Single screw

HMS Ladybird (1916)

Leda

Sold and broken up May 1921

HMS Launceston

HMS Launceston Castle (K397) was a Castle-class corvette of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, named after Launceston Castle in Cornwall. The ship was constructed during the Second World War and saw service primarily as a convoy escort.

fifth-rate frigate

HMS Lauderdale (L95)

HMS Laforey was the lead ship of her class of destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Launched a year before the First World War began, she was attached to the Dover Patrol. Laforey saw action in several engagements with German torpedo boats, including the Battle off Noordhinder Bank and the Action of 17 March 1917. Laforey was sunk in 1917 by a British mine after escorting several freighters to France. She was named for Francis Laforey, captain of HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

HMS Legion was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She entered service during the Second World War, and had a short but eventful career, serving in Home waters and the Mediterranean. She was sunk in an air attack on Malta in 1942. The ship had been adopted by the British civil community of the Municipal Borough of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in November 1941.

*16.5 knots designed
*17-18 knots after funnels raised

*Two shafts
*Geared turbines
*four Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*72,000 shp

Sunk by Aerial attack duringNormandy Landings, 8 June 1944

HMS Lady Shirley

*2 × shafts
*2 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines

HMS Laforey was a L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in and served during the Second World War, and was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in 1944. She had been adopted by the civil community of Northampton in November 1941.

HMS Ledbury (1940)

HMS Lance (1914)

Scrapped in 1962

March 1794

HMS Lee

HMS Lasham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers.Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Lasham in Hampshire.

Broken up July 1848

HMS Lawford (K514) was a Royal Navy converted Captain class frigate (pennant DE-516), built in the US in 1944. She was converted into an HQ ship for the Normandy landings. On 8 June 1944, whilst operating off Juno Beach, she was hit by enemy fire during an air attack and sunk. Thirty-seven of her crew died. The Royal Navy's damage summary report states that the ship was hit by an "aerial torpedo", which has been taken to mean a torpedo dropped from an aircraft.

yes

HMS LST 3042

HMS Lancaster Castle

September 1986

*Depth charges
*1 × BL 4 inch naval gun Mk VII

Captured by France

France

HMS Lee (1899)

cargo-passenger ship

HMS Lapwing (1911)

HMS Lassoo (1915)

never

HMS Lark was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by Westacott’s, Barnstaple and launched on 4 December 1880.Commenced service on the Australia Station in 1882. She undertook survey work in the Bougainville Strait, Choisel Bay and San Cristobel Island. During her life the ship's surgeon on board was Henry B. Guppy who also did much scientific research during the journeys.In 1883 Lark under C. F. Oldham transported the crew of the barque Illie which was wrecked in the Solomon Islands to Brisbane.

HMS Lancastria

HMS La Pique

Sir John Lawson , British naval officer who was commanding officer of the Commonwealth of England frigate Fairfax during the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652-1654

HMS Laforey (1913)

HMS Laverock (1914)

*Malta
*Arctic
*Sicily
*Salerno
*Adriatic
*Aegean
*Kuwait
*Al Faw

Transferred to United Kingdom 15 November 1943

USS Lawford

* 6 × QF 4.7 inch Mark XI gun L/50 , twin mounts HA/LA Mk.XX
* 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII L/39 , quad mount Mk.VII
* 8 × QF 0.5 in Mk.III Vickers , quad mounts Mk.III
* 8 tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX

HMS Leith

HMS Leda (1800)

HMS Leamington (1918)

HMS Leda (1828)

pennant number:

HMS Leda was a 46-gun Seringapatam-class fifth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s, one of seven ships of the Druid sub-class.

January 1815

Pennant number M76

HMS Leigh

HMS Lapwing was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

HMS Launceston Castle (K397)

February 1944

October 1779

HMS Largo Bay

*The Queen's Frigate,
*The Red Rose Frigate

HMS Lady Patricia

*HMS LST 3519
*Empire Baltic

Broken up 1955

HMS Leeds Castle (K384)

In excess of

Westacott’s, Barnstaple

after 1749 rebuild

As a water police ship, March 1865

HMS Lance (G87)

Full rigged ship

as built

Leander-class second-class partially protected cruiser

*2 shafts
*2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines

*Two shafts
*Two geared steam turbines
*Two drum-type boilers
*48000 shp

Broken up in March 1830

* 8 x QF Mk.XVI guns, twin mount HA/LA Mk.XIX
* 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII L/39 (40 mm), quad mount Mk.VII
* 8 × QF 0.5 in Mk.III Vickers , quad mounts Mk.III
* 8 tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX

HMS Leeds Castle &

*CODLAG:
*Four 1510 kW Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators
*Two GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW
*Two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C delivering 23,190 kW

HMS Lee was a 20-gun Cyrus-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1814 by Josiah and Thomas Brindley, nephews to Lord Nelson, at one of their three yards in Frindsbury in Kent.The Lee was first commissioned in January 1815 under Captain James Bremer. Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in August 1815 Captain John Pasco was given command of HMS Lee and was employed in the English Channel for the suppression of smuggling.

* 2 × BL L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V
* 2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun, mounting P Mark I
* 2 × single tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes

Sold and broken up November 1921

HMS Lady Nelson

*SA & SL type radars
*Type 144 series Asdic
*MF Direction Finding antenna
*HF Direction Finding Type FH 4 antenna

Sailed in convoys PQ-12, PQ-13, PQ-14, PQ-15, PQ-16, PQ-17, QP-9, QP-10, QP-15, JW-51A, JW-51B, JW-52, RA-51 & RA-53.

*18 knots max
*12 knots cruise

HMS Largs was a former Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) fruit (banana) ship captured by the Royal Navy ship HMS Faulknor five months after the Battle of France while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "ocean boarding vessel". She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of World War II, including Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord and she would be manned by naval, army and air force crew.

Thomas King, Dover

HMS Lammerton

Sails

HMS LST 3022

HMS LST 3534

Scrapped 1968

HMS Lamerton (L88)

Badge: On a Field barry wavy of four White and Blue, issuant from the base a Lance Red.

Pennant number: K691

*Landing Ship, Tank
*Ferry

Randall and Brent, Rotherhithe

Hygeia, in 1813

HMS LST 3017

*Royal Navy
*Atlantic Steam Navigation Company
*Royal Navy

*Upper deck: 28 x 18-pounder guns
*QD: 8 x 9-pounder guns + 6 x 32-pounder carronades
*Fc: 2 x 9-pounder guns + 2 x 32-pounder carronades

HMS Laverock

*1.5 in steel armoured deck over 165 ft.
*1.5 in gun shields.

*2,650 tons standard
*3,415 tons full

Sunk in shallow water 12 May 1941, used as anti-aircraft position.

Returned by Russian Navy

HMS Largs

*2 × QF gun
*6 × QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns
*8 × 6-pounder guns
*2 to 4 × torpedo tubes

HMS Lancaster (1902)

HMS Legion (G74)

HMS Lark was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class, launched in 1794 at Northfleet. She served primarily in the Caribbean, where she took a number of prizes, some after quite intensive action. Lark foundered off San Domingo in August 1809, with the loss of her captain and almost all her crew.

HMS Lauderdale was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ships of this class were designed as cheap, easily built vessels for convoy escort and antisubmarine duties. She was named like her sisters after a fox hunt, in her case one in Berwickshire. War bonds were issued to finance the building of warships. During Warship Week held in 1942 the civil community of Berwickshire adopted the ship. She has been the only Royal Navy warship to carry this name.

Hunt-class minesweeper, Aberdare sub-class

pennant number: G99

HMS Largs was a former Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) fruit (banana) ship captured by the Royal Navy ship HMS Faulknor five months after the Battle of France while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "ocean boarding vessel".

*Oerlikon / BMARC 30 mm L/75 KCB gun on single Laurence Scott DS-30B mount
*4 × L7 General Purpose Machine Guns

HMS La Capricieuse

HMS LST 3501

Water-tube boilers, Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts, 24,500 shp

*Two shafts
*Two geared steam turbines
*Two drum type boilers
*48000 shp

Pennant number: M2636 / IMS38

ASDIC anti-submarine dome

Mors Mina "Death to Mines"

Scrapped

*Type 285 fire control radar
*Type 291 air warning radar
*Type 276 target indication radar
*High Frequency Direction Finder
*IFF transponder

HMS Lagos (D44)

HMS Languard (Y-56)

HMS LST 3027

HMS Lark (1762)

HMS Leander (1813)

armoured cruiser

HMS Landguard

HMS Laurel (T 29) was a trawler launched in 1930 that the Admiralty acquired in 1935 and converted to a minesweeper. She served throughout World War II before being sold in 1946. After many years commercial service she was scrapped in 1955.

after 1722 rebuild

* aft, forward
*with 950 tons of coal and complete with stores and provisions.

Broken up in May 1822

August 1914

HMS Larne (1829)

HMS Lancaster (1797)

HMS Lady Prevost (1812)

Minesweeper Trawler

sold December 1887.

*:
*10 × 6-inch Breechloading guns
*8 1-inch Nordenfelt guns
*2 5-barrel and 2 2-barrel 0.45-in machineguns
*4 above water torpedo dischargers.

5 October 1909 wrecked off Blacksod Bay on the west coast of Ireland

*2 × dual 4.5-inch (114 mm) gun
*1 × single 4-inch (102 mm) gun
*14 × Bofors 40 mm gun
*10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
*1 × Squid mortar

November 1956

HMS Lacedemonian (1796)

HMS Langport (1654)

*4 × QF 4 inch Mark XVI guns on 2 twin mounting HA/LA Mk.XIX
*4 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V
*4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V
*1 × Hedgehog 24 barrel A/S projector
*2 rails and 4 throwers for 50 depth charges

*2 shaft Paxman 12YHAXM diesels
*1,100 bhp

HMS La Malouine

HMS LST 3035

HMS Lancaster (1749)

Portsmouth

Bermuda

HMS Ledbury, the second ship of the name, is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched in December 1979 and commissioned on 11 June 1981, the second ship of her class. She cost £65 million at time of building, which was at the time the most expensive cost-per-metre for any class of ship built by the Royal Navy. Most of this cost went into the research and development of Ledbury's glass reinforced plastic hull.

HMS Laverock (1913)

HMS Latona (1890)

pennant number K397

HMS Lark was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by Westacott’s, Barnstaple and launched on 4 December 1880.Commenced service on the Australia Station in 1882. She undertook survey work in the Bougainville Strait, Choisel Bay and San Cristobel Island. During her life the ship's surgeon on board was Henry B. Guppy who also did much scientific research during the journeys.In 1883 Lark under C. F. Oldham transported the crew of the barque Illie which was wrecked in the Solomon Islands to Brisbane. She sold at Sydney in December 1887.Based in Hobart, she was sold again in 1888 and was used as a coastal commercial trader in the Solomon Islands based out of Sydney.

81 m

*Empire Doric (1948-56)

HMS Laurel (1795)

October 1824

Returned to France

Josiah and Thomas Brindley, Frindsbury, Kent

*Malta & ,
*Arctic ,
*Sicily ,
*Salerno ,
*Adriatic ,
*Aegean .

HMS La Suffisante

Thomas Raymond, Chapel, Southampton

HMS Launceston Castle (1943)

Sold to Bangladesh

HMS Lancaster Castle (K691)

Sold 19 May 1928 toThos W Ward,Pembroke Dock

Lady Elizabeth Berthan
* Sonar Type 2193

Scrapped 1958

HMS Ledbury (M30)

November 1941

March 1901

*Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns
*QD: 4 x 6-pounder guns + 4 x 18-pounder carronades
*Fc: 2 x 18-pounder carronades
*12 × swivel guns

On a Field Blue, an eagle displayed upon a perch Gold.

HMS Leeds (G27)

*Type 272 radar
*Type 144Q sonar
*Type 147B sonar

* normal
* deep load

April 1958

HMS Landrail II

March 1813

Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Guadaloupe"

HMS Lancaster was one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. Upon completion she was assigned to the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet. She remained there until 1912 when she returned home to be placed in reserve. The ship was recommissioned in 1913 for service with the 4th Cruiser Squadron on the North America and West Indies Station. She remained there until she was assigned to the Grand Fleet in 1915.

Sold c.1818

Pennant number R44/D44

Steam engine

*3 × QF Mk IV guns
*1 × QF 2 pdr pom-pom Mk. II
*2 × twin tubes for 21 in torpedoes

HMS Largo Bay (K423)

* 1 × 30 mm DS30M Mk2 gun
* 2 × Miniguns
* 3 × General purpose machine guns

On a Field barry wavy White and Blue, upon a pomme vert a sun in splendour Gold eclipsed by a moon White.

November 1935

Loaned, then sold, to Indian Navy

June 1940

HMS Lambridge

HMS Leeds Castle (K384) & (F384)

Converted to hospital ship 1813