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The Naval 'LEANDER'

​Battle Honours
​TENERIFE 1797,  NILE 1798,  ALGIERS 1816,  CRIMEA 1854-55, and  KULA GULF 1943

​​Motto
​Qui Patitur Vincit  English: 'Who suffers conquers’

​​Heraldic Data
Badge: On a Field Blue. an arm in armour holding a lance proper, between two lotus flowers Silver, over wavelets gold and green.
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This the first ship to carry the name HMS Leander was a fourth rate, 52-gun, ship. It was built at Chatham Dockyard, launched 01-Jul-1780, 146ft long, 40ft 6in wide and of 1,044 tons. It won the Battle Honour: Nile 1798. 
Leander Ships

6 Ships have taken the name 'LEANDER'

The 'Leander' name

The name Leander comes from the Greek myth: Hero and Leander. The myth is about the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite (the goodess of love) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont (today's Dardanelles), and Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.
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Succumbing to Leander's soft words and to his argument that Aphrodite, as the goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. These trysts lasted through the warm summer. But one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander in the sea and the breezes blew out Hero's light; Leander lost his way and was drowned. When Hero saw his dead body, she threw herself over the edge of the tower to her death to be with him.
Source Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_and_Leander)
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Training Ship Leander

TS Leander became its own unit in 1960.
Why name your power boats Hero and Walrus? Hero relates to the story of 'Hero and Leander' (as mentioned above), and Walrus is a type of sea plane that H.M.N.Z.S. Leander (The 5th Leander) carried on-board for reconnaissance operations.
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