HMS Spartan

HMS Spartan may refer to one of these vessels of the British Royal Navy named in recognition of the military abilities of the Spartans of ancient Greece.

• HMS Spartan (1806) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1806 and broken up 1822
• HMS Spartan was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate; ordered from Plymouth Dockyard in 1824, the ship was cancelled in 1831
• HMS Spartan (1841) was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1841 and sold in 1862
• HMS Spartan (1868) was an Eclipse-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1868 and sold in 1882
• HMS Spartan (1891) was a second class cruiser launched in 1891, sent to harbour service in 1907, renamed Defiance in 1921, and sold 1931
• HMS Spartan (95) was a Dido-class cruiser launched in 1942 and sunk in 1944 by a Hs 293 guided bomb
• HMS Spartan (S105), launched in 1978, is a nuclear-powered submarine of the Swiftsure class

Battle Honours

• Bay of Naples, 1810
• Burma, 1853
• China, 1856–57
• Atlantic, 1943
• Mediterranean, 1944
• Anzio, 1944
• Falklands, 1982

See also

• HMS Spartiate