HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of...
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HMS Alert (or the variants Alerte and Alaart), while another was planned: HMS Alert (1753), an 8-gun cutter in service from 1753 to 1754. HMS Alert (1777)...
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Fyodorov Akademik Tryoshnikov HMS Alert (1856) America (airship) Antarctic Snow Cruiser HMS Assistance (1850) USS Bear (1874) HMS Blossom (1806) Bowdoin (Arctic...
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HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...
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1811. HMS Torch (1845), launched in 1845 and sold in 1856. HMS Torch (1859), a Philomel-class gunvessel launched in 1859 and broken up in 1881. HMS Torch (1894)...
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Cruizer-class sloop (section Alert)
"HMS Fawn at William Looney website". Retrieved 16 November 2008. "HMS Falcon at William Looney website". Retrieved 16 November 2008. "HMS Alert at...
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John Ross (Royal Navy officer) (category 1856 deaths)
midshipman on HMS Weazel, which shortly joined in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. Short periods of service on HMS Clyde and HMS Diligence followed...
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years later gained his first experience of Arctic exploration as mate of HMS Terror on an expedition commanded by Captain George Back. On his return,...
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HMS Hazard's Prize (or Hazard Prize) was the French privateer Subtile, which HMS Hazard captured on 28 August 1756 and which the Royal Navy took into service...
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HMS Orpheus was a Jason-class Royal Navy corvette that served as the flagship of the Australian squadron. Orpheus sank off the west coast of Auckland...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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locked in the pack ice aboard HMS Investigator before abandoning the ship and making their escape across the ice. Rescued by HMS Resolute, which was itself...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1875–76: HMS Alert and HMS Discovery)
Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in the ships HMS Alert and HMS Discovery. (London, 1878); translated into French (Paris, 1877). Several...
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steam vessel HMS Snake in the Mediterranean Fleet in February 1856 and, having been awarded French Legion of Honour, 5th class on 2 August 1856 and the Turkish...
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David Porter, USN, of U.S. frigate Essex reported the capture of HM brig Alert on 13 August 1812 in these words: "He avoided the dreadful consequences...
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Frederick William Beechey (category 1856 deaths)
Frederick William Beechey FRS (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. He was the...
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HMS Investigator was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition. She made two voyages...
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HMS Plumper was part of the 1847 programme, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Woolwich Dockyard with the name Pincher. However, the...
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injury that occurred on 14 October 1841 during the salvage operations on HMS Royal George. Richardson was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1846. He traveled...
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reached Tanquary Fiord, they had to trek 150 miles (240 km) via Lake Hazen to Alert before setting up their winter base camp. In 1984, the commercial passenger...
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an additional 100 tonnes which also detonated. Royal Navy warships HMS Ajax and HMS Calcutta attempted to tow the stricken vessel out of harbour and succeeded...
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in 1856 at the age of 15 and spent the first eight years of his career on the China Station, travelling out in HMS Camilla and later serving on HMS Niger...
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patent crane. The development of housing was so rapid that HMS Hotspur, later renamed HMS Monmouth, was provided as a chapel ship for Roman Catholic services...
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Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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as a first-class volunteer in 1837, serving until 1844 on HMS Hyacinth, HMS Clio, and HMS Volage. In 1838, he was entrusted with the command of a gunboat...
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Robert Peary (category 1856 births)
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (/ˈpɪəri/; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions...
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on the frigate, she changed to the English flag and identified herself as HMS Thetis, narrowly avoiding being fired upon. When reaching Boston, Barry learned...
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magnitude with his C8 telescope as far as visual magnitude 16.0 (Magnitude Alert Program). In 1996 he saw his 1000th minor planet visually. MPC · 8297 8298...
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Strait as a surveyor.: 153 In 1835 he was surveying in the Irish Sea in HMS Lightning: 221 , and in 1836 he commanded a surveying ship on the north and...
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attack impossible until the British launched the first-rate ship of the line HMS St. Lawrence on 15 October, too late in the year for major operations to...
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