HMS Leda (1800)

HMS Leda (1800)

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 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 frigate 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.