Eleven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Leopard after the leopard:
HMS Leopard (1635) was a 34-gun ship launched in 1635 and captured by the Dutch in 1653.
HMS Leopard (1659) was a 54-gun ship launched in 1659, hulked from 1686, and sunk as a breakwater in 1699. John Tyrrell was lieutenant on this ship in 1672.