HMS Bellerophon was a central battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1860s. In this ship, designed by Sir Edward Reed, the power-to-weight...
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Navy have been named HMS Bellerophon after the hero Bellerophon in Greek mythology, whilst another two were planned: HMS Bellerophon (1786), nicknamed the...
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was founded nearly a month after HMS Victory was launched in 1765. Victory's Great Cabin stood in for HMS Bellerophon in the 2023 biopic Napoleon, in a...
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Frederick Lewis Maitland (section Aboard Bellerophon)
career occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to him aboard HMS Bellerophon, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars. Maitland was born at...
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GWR Premier Class (redirect from Bellerophon (GWR Premier Class locomotive))
Jason's ship in Greek mythology. Bellerophon (1846–1870) Bellerophon is the name of a Greek mythological hero. HMS Bellerophon was one of the most famous ships...
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turret of Royal Sovereign by one of the 9-inch (230 mm) guns carried by HMS Bellerophon to evaluate how well Coles' turrets held up to gunfire. While the armour...
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compare. In sea trials in 1867 with Bellerophon, Lord Warden was taking water through her gun ports, while Bellerophon could have fought her main armament...
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m) from the hull on either side. Also Ferreira and Maria do Amparo Also HMS Carrick and Carrick Retroactively The disposable ship Columbus (108 m) was...
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was promoted to captain in 1828 and commanded the vessels HMS Andromache and HMS Bellerophon and served as one of the senior officers in the Baltic Sea...
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blockaded in Cap Français during the Blockade of Saint-Domingue by HMS Elephant, Bellerophon, Theseus and Vanguard. After a successful sortie in the dark,...
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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (section HMS Inflexible)
30 January 1877 – 1 March 1877: Commanding HMS Hercules. Fisher was appointed to command HMS Bellerophon as flag captain to the Admiral of the North...
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on 28 June. He disembarked at Chatham on 23 August 1849, and joined HMS Bellerophon on 7 November 1850. On this ship, he embarked for the Mediterranean...
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SS Ville du Havre (category 1865 ships)
between the northern coast of France and New York City. Launched in November 1865 under her original name of Napoléon III, she was converted from a paddle...
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within. For example, HMS Bellerophon, HMS Charon, HMS Orion, HMS Leander, HMS Minotaur, HMS Pegasus, HMS Phaeton, HMS Theseus, HMS Venus. In 1794 a Latin-language...
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Amazon-class sloops in commission from 1865 HMS Bellerophon commissioned in 1866 HMS Vixen commissioned 1866 HMS Viper commissioned 1866 Minotaur-class...
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penetrated by more modern guns. The first central battery ship was HMS Bellerophon of 1865. Great Britain built a total of 18 central battery ships before...
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USS Powhatan (1850) (section Civil War, 1860–1865)
be taken to the United States. During August 1855, Powhatan accompanied HMS Rattler in a successful battle against Chinese pirates off Kowloon, and reached...
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Apprehension Acts 1865–1899" (PDF). Retrieved 4 September 2013. ANZLH E-Journal. "Outlawry in Colonial Australia: The Felons Apprehension Acts 1865–1899" (PDF)...
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expedition to the Dismal Swamp Canal on 17–20 April. From August 1863 – 1865, Philadelphia was flagship of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. The...
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British examples were, among others, HMS Bellerophon (the first such one completed by the British in 1865) and HMS Hercules (1868). French examples included...
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GWR 3031 Class (redirect from Bellerophon (GWR 3031 Class locomotive))
locomotive withdrawn in 1873 3035 Beaufort 07/1894 05/1909 Originally named Bellerophon (previously the name of a Premier Class locomotive withdrawn in 1870);...
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again, this time hoisting his flag in the central battery ironclad HMS Bellerophon, in September 1873. Promoted to full admiral on 11 December 1875, Wellesley...
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direction included: HMS Bellerophon using an innovative "bracket frame" system of construction in 1865. The ocean-going turret-ship HMS Monarch in 1868....
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full-scale center-battery ship was HMS Bellerophon of 1865; the French laid down centre-battery ironclads in 1865 which were not completed until 1870...
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the events of Bloody Sunday (1920). HMS Argenta was scrapped in 1925. HMS Bellerophon 1815–1824 Sheerness Bellerophon was a 74-gun Third-rate launched in...
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converted on the building stocks into an armoured frigate. HMS Caledonia was not completed until July 1865 due to a delay in the delivery of her main armament...
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French navies. On 23 July 1815 the captive Emperor Napoleon – aboard HMS Bellerophon towards his final exile – spent several hours on deck watching Ushant...
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HMS Penelope was a central-battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was rated as an armoured corvette. She was designed for inshore...
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such as HMS Bellerophon, HMS Temeraire and HMS Superb; or after events or people in some way connected with him, such as HMS Collingwood and HMS St. Vincent...
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broadside ironclads Lord Clyde (1864) Lord Warden (1865) Pallas (1865) – central-battery ironclad Bellerophon (1865) – central-battery ironclad Penelope (1867)...
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