HMS Cleopatra
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cleopatra, after the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra:
- HMS Cleopatra (1779) was a 32-gun fifth rate, built in 1779 and broken up in 1814. The French captured her in 1805 and she spent several days in their hands before being recaptured.
- HMS Cleopatra (1835) was a 26-gun sixth rate built in 1835 and broken up in 1862.
- HMS Cleopatra (1878) was a Comus-class screw corvette built in 1878, and used for harbour service from 1905. She was renamed Defiance III in 1922 and sold for breaking up in 1931.
- HMS Cleopatra (1915) was a Template:Sclass2- light cruiser built in 1915 and broken up in 1931.
- HMS Cleopatra (33) was a Template:Sclass- built in 1940 and broken up in 1958.
- HMS Cleopatra (F28) was a Template:Sclass- launched in 1964 and sold for scrap in 1993.
The name can also refer to Cleopatra (1839), an East India Company paddle frigate built in 1839 and sunk by a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean in 1847.
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