HMS Spartan

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rdf:langString 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 in 1822 * HMS Spartan was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate; ordered from Plymouth Dockyard in 1824, the ship was cancelled in 1831 * was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1841 and sold in 1862 * 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 in 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) is a nuclear-powered Swiftsure-class submarine launched in 1978