HMS Gorgon was a wooden steam paddle sloop of 6 guns, launched in 1837. In 1840 she took part in the bombardment of Acre, and in 1843 was part of the Royal...
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1805 and was broken up in 1817. HMS Gorgon (1837) was a steam frigate launched in 1837 and broken up in 1864. HMS Gorgon (1871) was a coast defence ship...
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Nicaragua Canal. Pim went to the West Indies in command of HMS Gorgon in 1860 and returned home on HMS Fury. He made post captain in 1868 and was compulsorily...
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Spanish ship Fenix (1749) (redirect from HMS Gibraltar (1780))
cedar) were used to make the partitions and doors of the cabins of HMS Gorgon (1837), which was being built at Pembroke at the time. Winfield's book gives...
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HMS Bedford was a Royal Navy 74-gun third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 27 October 1775 at Woolwich. At an unknown date on a cruise she...
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ships that had been designed as steam paddle frigates. HMS Gorgon and the slightly larger HMS Cyclops had both been constructed to have a full battery...
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HMS Thames was a 32-gun fifth-rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805 at Chatham. A wartime lack of building materials meant that...
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vessels', lengthened versions of sloop Gorgon HMS Cyclops 1839 HMS Vulture 1843 HMS Firebrand 1842 HMS Gladiator 1844 HMS Sampson 1844 – second class, originally...
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HMS Nymphe was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was...
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passing convoys and had taken command of the 44-gun frigate/store ship Gorgon to add to his transport capacity and determined to move the troops to a...
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frigate HMS Gorgon and being promoted to post-captain on 19 April 1854. Subsequently, Cumming was transferred to HMS Conflict and, in company with HMS Amphion...
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military machinery of their time, and at least three (Fulton, HMS Firebrand and HMS Gorgon) were steamers, which initially stayed behind the sailing vessels...
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for privateers. He sent Nelson, in Captain, together with the transport Gorgon, Vanneau, the cutter Rose, and troops of the 51st Regiment of Foot to accomplish...
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with the Second and Third fleets, but officially with the arrival of HMS Gorgon on 22 September 1791, the New South Wales Marines were relieved by a newly...
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HMS Diomede was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Diomede class of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1798. She was commissioned in March...
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Royal Navy and renamed HMS Glatton, blew up in September 1918. Nidaros (1912) – Seized by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Gorgon. Ellida (1849–1866) Ellida...
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service as Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury from 1830 to 1837 and Chargé d'Affaires to Belgium from 1837 to 1842. He was a political ally of Calhoun and an...
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Royal Oak, Ramillies, Armide, Cydnus, Seahorse, Trave, Sophie, Belle Poule, Gorgon, Meteor. American claims that at least two British boats sunk and over 300...
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the Cherokee town of Ooltewah, Tennessee, where he built a race track. In 1837, he again moved his business operations to Webber's Falls on the Arkansas...
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HMS Minerva was a 38-gun fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate. The first of four Minerva-class frigates, she was launched on 3 June 1780, and commissioned soon...
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character in Friedrich Hebbel's play Genoveva DMP · 680 681 Gorgo 1909 GZ Gorgon (German: Gorgo) one of the three sisters – Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa –...
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Sheerness), however, the Chatham vessel was transferred to Sheerness in 1837 prior to being laid down. Hermes was re-engined and lengthen in 1842, Megaera...
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HMS Seahorse was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1794 and broken up in 1819. Launched in June 1794, Seahorse...
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during which he hoped to conclude the treaty. Chatfield, however, sent HMS Gorgon to pre-emptively seize the island for Britain. But Chatfield had over-reached...
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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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to HMS Gorgon, HMS Edgar and then HMS Crown over the following year. In 1790 he sailed for the East Indies and there served on HMS Minerva and HMS Ariel...
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HMS Apollo, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of the Lively class, carrying 38 guns, launched...
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Powerful, Ganges, Edinburgh, Revenge, Benbow, frigate Pique, and steamer Gorgon) operating off the coast of Ottoman Syria. In Admiral Sir Robert Stopford's...
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serving with the Royal Navy's Baltic Fleet in 1807 - aboard the hospital ship Gorgon - he was successful in treating an outbreak of scurvy in the allied Swedish...
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On 17 December, Ross and most of the marines returned to England on HMS Gorgon. January – James Stirling 26 April – John Lee Archer 13 July – Allan Cunningham...
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