HMS Cleopatra

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cleopatra, after the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra:

The name can also refer to Cleopatra, an East India Company paddle frigate built in 1839 and sunk by a tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean in 1847.

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