Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cleopatra, after the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra: was a 32-gun fifth rate, built in 1779 and broken up in 1814. The French captured her in 1805 and she spent several days in their hands before being recaptured. was a 26-gun sixth rate built in 1835 and broken up in 1862. was a Comus-class screw corvette built in 1878, and used for harbour service from 1905. She was renamed Defiance III in 1922 and sold for breaking up in 1931. was a light cruiser built in 1915 and broken up in 1931. was a built in 1940 and broken up in 1958. was a launched in 1964 and sold for scrap in 1993. The name can also refer to , an East India Company paddle frigate built in 1839 and sunk by a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean in 1847. Royal Navy ship names