HMS Leith (U36)
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HMS Leith was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War.
Leith in July 1941
Galathea expeditions
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The Galathea expeditions comprise a series of three Danish ship-based scientific research expeditions in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, carried out with material assistance from the Royal Danish N
HMS Leith (U36)
…was renamed Byron, and later Friendship in 1948. She was then acquired by the Royal Danish Navy in 1949 and renamed HDMS Galathea. She undertook the second Galathea expedition, which circumnavigated the world in 1950–52 while doing deep sea oceanographic research, and was sold to be scrapped at Odense in 1955. Campbell, N…
The corvette HDMS Galathea (1833–1861)
HDMS Galathea at the Nicobar Islands in 1846
Vædderen being welcomed home to Copenhagen on 25 April 2007 at the end of her voyage