HMS Cruizer was a Snake-class ship-sloop launched in 1828 for the British Royal Navy. The ship was built as a revival of the retired Snake-class ship-sloops...
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name HMS Cruizer or HMS Cruiser: HMS Cruizer (1705) was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the French ship De Meric. She was captured in 1705 by HMS Tryton...
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(the brig-sloop Cruizer and the ship-sloop Snake) would each have a single sister ship ordered in the following March, and Rule's Cruizer design would subsequently...
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She was ordered in 1812, but cancelled that same year. HMS Argus (1813) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1827. The...
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Admiralty sold her in May 1799. HMS Pilot (1807) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1828. She became a whaler, making five...
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1798. HMS Musquito (1799) or Muskito was a 12-gun schooner captured from the French in 1799 and sold in 1802. HMS Musquito (1804) was a Cruizer-class...
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almost all her crew. HMS Belette (1814) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1814 but not completed until 1818. She was sold in 1828. Demerliac (1996)...
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in 1828. She became a whaler that made four voyages to the British southern whale fishery between 1830 and 1848. She was last listed in 1848. HMS Rover...
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undertaking three whaling voyages between 1811 and 1819. HMS Nimrod (1812) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1827 when...
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at Anholt Island in the Kattegat. HMS Fly (1813) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and sold in 1828. HMS Fly (1831) was an 18-gun sloop launched...
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HMS Forester (1806) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806. She was used for harbour service from 1816 and was sold in 1819. HMS Forester...
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new Snake-class warships, HMS Childers and HMS Cruizer. HMS Snake (1797) HMS Victor (1798) HMS Childers (1827) HMS Cruizer (1828) Winfield (2008), pp. 282...
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HMS Zebra, was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built of teak in the East India Company's Bombay Dockyard and launched in...
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action in August 1828 but prior to that played an active part in the Napoleonic Wars. At the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809, she and HMS Lyra guided the...
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HMS Belette (or Bellette) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built by Edward Larking and William Spong at Kings Lynn and launched in 1814. She was...
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Navy in 1836. He fought in the Second Opium War, and as Commander of HMS Cruizer, is credited with having been the first person to climb the walls of...
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HMS Redwing was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1806, she saw active service in the Napoleonic Wars, mostly in the...
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design for this task, alongside the Vengeur-class ship of the line and Cruizer-class brig-sloop. The Apollo class was chosen to fulfil the role of standardised...
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was a former vessel of the British Royal Navy, probably the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Harrier. The Navy sold her in 1829 and her new owners deployed...
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Navy in 1828. During the Oriental Crisis of 1840 he took part in the capture of Acre. He was subsequently given command of HMS Cruizer and then HMS Daphne...
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was in company with Latona, the hired armed cutter Courier, and Cruizer when Cruizer captured the Prussian hoy Dolphin. In April 1800, Captain Peter Ribouleau...
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HMS Lyra was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched at Deptford in 1808 for the Royal Navy. In 1809 she was one of the vessels that participated in the...
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HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, Minerva-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy. This frigate was most noted for her intrusion into Nagasaki harbour in 1808...
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he served at the Cape of Good Hope between 1828 and 1830 onboard HMS Jaseur, a Cruizer-class 18-gun brig-sloop involved with anti-slave operations between...
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HMS Pelorus was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. She was built in Itchenor, England and launched on 25 June 1808. She saw...
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HMS Hecate was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built by John King at Upnor and launched in 1809. After serving in the British Navy, essentially...
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HMS Union was the mercantile City of Kingston that the Royal Navy purchased in 1823 for service as a 3-gun schooner. She served in the suppression of...
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Edward Sparshott (section Commander, 1821–1828)
midshipman on HMS Centaur, flagship of Sir Samuel Hood, he was present at the surrender of Madeira. As captain, he commanded HMS Prince Regent, and HMS Winchester...
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HMS Clio was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched at James Betts' shipyard in Mistleythorn in Essex on 10 January 1807. Her establishment...
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escorted Baltic convoys through the Great Belt. On 11 June 1808, she and Cruizer discovered several vessels at anchor close to shore at the entrance to...
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