Seven vessels of the Royal Navy have been named Dwarf: HMS Dwarf (1810) was a Decoy-class cutter. She participated in the capture of a French privateer...
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HMS Bramble (26 November 1898) and HMS Britomart (29 March 1899), while their counterparts in Glasgow were named HMS Dwarf (15 November 1898) and HMS...
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HMS Dwarf was launched in 1840 as the mercantile Mermaid. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1843 as the Navy's first screw-propelled vessel. She was broken...
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navy service was HMS Dwarf.) Bee was broken up in 1874. HMS Bee (1915) was an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1915 and sold in 1939. HMS Bee was to have...
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HMS Dwarf was a Decoy-class cutter launched in 1810. She participated in the capture of a French privateer and in operations in the Gironde. After the...
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The Seven Dwarfs are a group of seven fictional dwarfs that appear in the 1812 fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm and other renditions and adaptations...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
gunboat HMS Dwarf engages German armed yacht Herzogin Elisabeth in an action in the Wouri River 1914, September 14 – British armed merchantman HMS Carmania...
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smuggling vessels. The French captured her in 1814. HMS Dwarf (1810) was wrecked on 3 March 1824. HMS Racer (1810) stranded on the French coast on 28 October...
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gunnades. HMS Trident commissioned for the first time on 8 August 1846 for the Mediterranean. On 26 September 1849, she collided with HMS Dwarf in the Atlantic...
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expeditions were also in fashion (not the least the recently completed voyage of HMS Beagle 1831-36 with Charles Darwin on board) and the Danish King Christian...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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HMS Sappho was a Royal Navy brig that gained public notoriety for causing a diplomatic incident over the slave trade with the United States of America...
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HMS Medusa was one of three 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a tugboat in 1861–1862...
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problematic, but the five Marconi installations in March 1900 on naval cruisers HMS Dwarf, Forte, Magicienne, Racoon and Thetis proved successful. By 1912, Marconi...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Cockchafer (1881) Starling (1882) Stork (1882) Raven (1882) Albacore class HMS Albacore HMS Mistletoe HMS Watchful Bramble class Rattler (1886) Wasp (1886) Lizard (1886)...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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Dec: Agnes Unknown date: Sylph Other incidents 17 May: St. Louis Fire 4 Jul: SMS Vulcano 26 Sep: HMS Dwarf 27 Sep: Cambria 30 Nov: Mona's Isle 1848 1850...
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August, Ebani was en route from Sierra Leone to Monrovia when the gunboat HMS Dwarf stopped her off the coast of West Africa. South Africa mobilised to invade...
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from Kingstown, County Dublin to Holyhead. Her passengers were taken off by HMS Banshee. She was towed in to Holyhead by Hibernia. The Chester and Holyhead...
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Asia (1797 ship) (redirect from HMS Sir Francis Drake)
Navy purchased her in 1805 in the East Indies. The Royal Navy renamed her HMS Sir Francis Drake and used her as a frigate. She served in the Java campaign...
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attempting to save a man's life while serving as first lieutenant of HMS Dwarf Major Richard Orpin Townsend Nicolls (1823–1862) of the Madras Staff Corps...
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