HMS Ferret was a Dutch hoy that the Admiralty purchased in 1794 for use as a gun-boat. It sold her in May 1802. Ferret was commissioned into the Royal...
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HMS Ferret, after the domestic mammal, the Ferret: HMS Ferret (1704) was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1704 that the French captured in 1706. HMS Ferret (1711)...
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launched in 1868 and sold in 1888. HMS Lynx (1894) was a Ferret-class destroyer launched in 1894 and sold in 1912. HMS Lynx (1913) was an Acasta-class destroyer...
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HMS Ferret was a Dutch hoy of the same name that the Admiralty purchased in 1794 for use as a gun-boat. It sold her in May 1802. Fury underwent fitting...
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HMS Abergavenny was originally Earl of Abergavenny, an East Indiaman sailing for the British East India Company (EIC). As an East Indiaman she made two...
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HMS Ferret was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1784 but not completed until 1787. In 1801 the Navy sold her. She then became a whaler, making...
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had about 190 men on board. HMS Jupiter came up after and took Jean Bart into Plymouth. French privateer Jean Bart: HMS Ferret captured the privateers Jean...
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a series of warships: HMS Ferret, 13 August – 20 September 1790 HMS Culloden, 1794 HMS Argo, 1 August 1794 – 2 January 1795 HMS Ardent, 1797 – 11 October...
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original six frigates whose construction was authorized by the Naval Act of 1794. Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young navy's capital...
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HMS Sir Isaac Brock was a warship which was destroyed before being completed at York, Upper Canada during the War of 1812. The ship was named after the...
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HMS Lark was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class, launched in 1794 at Northfleet. She served primarily in the Caribbean, where she took a number...
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Jamaica. On arrival in the West Indies, Jervis was assigned to the sloop Ferret on the Mosquito Coast, where he saw constant service against Spanish guarda-costas...
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hurricane swept ashore 35 ships lying in other ports in Antigua, while HMS Hector and HMS Winchelsea, both moored in English Harbour, suffered no damage.[citation...
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captain of Ferret between December 1789 and October 1790. In 1790 he was promoted to captain at the age of 22 and was briefly captain of HMS Lowestoffe...
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became commander of the sloop HMS Ferret. Promoted Captain he commanded HMS Renown, HMS Adventure, HMS Levant and HMS Cleopatra. He commanded the Cleopatra...
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Richard, later renamed HMS Royal James 1670 – HMS Saint Andrew; first-rate ship of the line, later renamed HMS Royal Anne 1701 – HMS Royal Sovereign; first-rate...
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December by the Royal Navy's HMS Netley. Ferret ( France): The privateer was captured on 25 December by the Royal Navy's HMS Viper. She was taken in to...
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HMS Formidable and promoted to commander in June 1782, after which he was given command of the sloop Pachahunter, and then HMS Pylades and HMS Ferret...
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Russell sailed around Cap-Français to Jérémie and met with the 12-gun HMS Ferret under Captain Nowell. It was agreed that Nowell's first lieutenant, an...
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uniformity between ships. On one occasion in 1853, the commanding officer of HMS Harlequin paid for his boat crews to dress as harlequins, an incident which...
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HMS Woolwich was an Adventure-class frigate launched in 1784. She essentially spent her career as a storeship until she was wrecked in 1813. It is not...
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Haitian Revolution (category 1794 in the Caribbean)
mulatto leader, Jean-Pierre Boyer, sent six regiments into the Grand-Anse to ferret out Goman. The black rebel was trapped and shot off a 1,000-foot-high cliff...
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12-gun sloop HMS Ferret to serve in the North Sea. While on station for a period after this he temporarily commanded the 38-gun frigate HMS Artois while...
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and 116 men, that HMS Unite captured on 19 May 1810. HMS Duguay-Trouin. This Duguay Trouin may have been the schooner that Ferret and Hussar captured...
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Vénėrable. On 31 May 1757 Squirrel captured the American ship America, Lewis Ferret, master. Her owners appealed the seizure but the court of appeal ruled that...
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Reserves HMS Calliope HMS Cambria HMS Ceres HMS Dalriada HMS Eaglet HMS Ferret HMS Flying Fox HMS Forward HMS Hibernia HMS King Alfred HMS President HMS Scotia...
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Garde (Bond of Friendship) Royal Navy – HMS York (until 2012) Royal Navy – HMS Richmond Royal Navy – HMS Iron Duke The Regimental Handbook: The Yorkshire...
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Transport Board (Royal Navy) (category 1794 establishments in Great Britain)
Transport Office. The Board existed between 1690 and 1724, and again between 1794 and 1817. In both these periods it was constituted and functioned as a subsidiary...
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implemented a longer trial of citrus fruit. In an experiment in 1794, lemon juice was issued on board HMS Suffolk on a twenty-three-week, non-stop voyage to India...
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to the Catherine yacht, and then in the fleet of 1791 commanded HMS Zealous. In 1794 he was promoted to rear-admiral, vice-admiral on 1799, and to admiral...
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