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    HMS Halifax was a ship-rigged sloop of the Merlin class built in 1806 for the British Royal Navy at the Naval Yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Built to fill...
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  • French Marie, renamed from HMS Mary in 1800 and sold in 1802. HMS Halifax (1806), an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 at Halifax, Nova Scotia and broken up...
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  • same year. She became the mercantile Halifax. HMS Halifax (1806) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 at Halifax, Nova Scotia and broken up in 1814 Ships...
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    HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. She won...
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    Guerrière being engaged by the 74-gun HMS Culloden until she reached the entrance to the port. She sailed in 1806 with several other French ships to attack...
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    purpose of the Halifax Yard was to supply, man and refit ships but it also built some warships including: HMS Halifax (1768) HMS Halifax (1806) Ships based...
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  • HMS Muros was the privateer Alcide, launched at Bordeaux in 1804. The British Royal Navy (RN) captured her in 1806 and commissioned her. She wrecked in...
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  • HMS Spider was a brig-rigged Spanish sloop that the British Royal Navy captured in 1806 and took into service. She served in the Mediterranean and the...
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    Paul's Church is a historically evangelical Anglican church in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, within the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Recruit (1806)
    HMS Recruit was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Sandwich, Kent. She is best known for an act of pique by Commander...
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    Captain George Burlton 1806 to 1809 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179. Winfield (2008), p. 48. "HMS Resolution (1770) at Halifax, Nova Scotia". The Observer...
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    HMS Columbine was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806. She served on the North America station, in the Mediterranean, off the Portuguese coast...
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    HMS Crocodile was a 22-gun sixth-rate post-ship launched in South Shields in 1806. She was broken up at Portsmouth in October 1816. In July 1806 Captain...
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    HMS Ferret was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Benjamin Tanner at Dartmouth and launched in 1806, 19 months late. She served on the Jamaica...
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    HMS Atalante (or Atalanta) was an 18-cannon sloop-of-war launched in 1808, and ordered in 1806, from Bermuda. However, the ship was wrecked on 10 November...
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    namesake HMS Halifax in 1806. Several notable naval engagements occurred off the Halifax station. Most dramatic was the victory of the Halifax-based British...
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    HMS Spartan was a Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate, launched at Rochester in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars she was active in the Adriatic and in...
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  • Caribbean under the North American Station. A list of shipyards of NAS: Halifax Naval Yard, Nova Scotia Oswego, New York Pointe au Baril, Ontario Navy...
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  • escorting convoys to and from the West Indies. She foundered in 1806 while serving on the Halifax, Nova Scotia, station. Busy was the sole vessel of her class...
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    Provo Wallis (category Military personnel from Halifax, Nova Scotia)
    temporary captain of HMS Shannon as she returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with Chesapeake. As commanding officer of the fifth-rate HMS Madagascar, Wallis...
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    from Havana to New York, HMS Leander recaptured her. This incident gave rise to a case in the Vice admiralty court in Halifax, which restored her to her...
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  • granted a warrant to Commander Rupert George of HMS Hussar. George sent press gangs from Hussar into Halifax. In one night they detained 50 to 60 men, including...
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  • in the Mediterranean Sea between 1804 and 1806. Returning home to the United States in Spitfire in August 1806, Babbitt joined the frigate Chesapeake in...
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    HMS Emulous was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop, built by William Row at Newcastle and launched in 1806. She survived an inconclusive but...
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  • HMS Linnet was originally His Majesty's revenue cutter Speedwell, launched in 1797, that the Royal Navy purchased in 1806. Linnet captured a number of...
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    February 1805, while on the Halifax station, Leander captured the French frigate Ville de Milan and recaptured her prize, HMS Cleopatra. On 25 April 1805...
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  • ship HMS Heureux. She captured numerous French and Spanish privateers and merchant vessels in the Caribbean Sea before she was lost at sea in 1806. Her...
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    appointed to command the former French frigate HMS Guerriere, which had been captured by HMS Blanche on 19 July 1806. Dacres sailed to the North American station...
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  • HMS Decouverte was the French schooner Eclipse, launched in 1804, that was captured in 1806. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Decouverte. She...
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  • HMS Meleager was a 36-gun fifth-rate Perseverance-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and wrecked on 30 July 1808 off Jamaica. During...
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