Leda-class frigate
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The Leda-class frigates were a ship class of forty-seven 38-gun fifth-rate frigates constructed from 1805 to 1832 for the Royal Navy. Based on a French design, the class came in five major groups, all
HMS Trincomalee, one of the two surviving members of the class.
HMS Pomone
HMS Unicorn
HMS Daedalus (1826)
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HMS Daedalus was a 19th-century warship of the Royal Navy. She is primarily remembered for a reported sea serpent sighting by her captain and crew in August 1848.
Leda-class frigate
…HMS Unicorn, another sailing frigate that has survived to the present day. HMS Daedalus, completed 1844 as a 19-gun sixth-rate corvette, which also claimed to sight a sea monster, which was actually found to be a whale. HMS Proserpine…
The Daedalus sea serpent of 1848
An original illustration of the reported sea serpent
Illustration of the head, 1852