HMS Kingfisher (or King's Fisher or Kingsfisher) was a Royal Navy 18-gun ship sloop, built by John King and launched in 1804 at Dover. She served during...

She was wrecked in 1798. HMS Kingfisher (1804) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and broken up in 1816. HMS Kingfisher (1823) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class...

reclassified as a D-class destroyer in 1913 and was sold in 1920. HMS Mallard (L42) was a Kingfisher-class sloop launched in 1936 and sold in 1947. This article...

1690, and was broken up in 1713. HMS Sophia was a vessel of 52 tons (bm) that the Royal Navy purchased in June 1804 for service as a fire vessel and then...

purchased her and donated her to the Royal Navy, which commissioned her in 1804 as HMS Grenada. She was later converted to a brig. She captured nine small French...

Napoleonic Wars. He also commanded the sloop HMS Kingfisher at the blockade of Rochefort and the fifth-rate HMS Pallas under Admiral Lord Gambier at the Battle...

sloop HMS Tamar. In her, and afterwards in HMS Kingfisher, he continued on the North American station, and on 14 November 1775 he was posted to HMS Mercury...

under John Jervis, Lord St Vincent. Jervis appointed him to the sloop HMS Kingfisher. Maitland was part of several successful cruises, and assisted in the...

HMS Tonnant (lit. 'Thundering') was an 80-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been Tonnant of the French Navy and the lead ship...

knots (37 km/h). A number of such sloops, for example the Grimsby and Kingfisher classes, were built in the interwar years. Fleet minesweepers such as...

commander of HMS Kingfisher. He was promoted to post-captain in July 1795 and took command of a variety of ships including most notably HMS Syren, HMS Latona...

74-gun ships HMS Northumberland and HMS Atlas commanded by Sir Alexander Cochrane, and on 1 February a brig Kingfisher commanded by Nathaniel Day Cochrane...

captured in 1800. She served with the Royal Navy as the 22-gun post ship HMS Heureux. She captured numerous French and Spanish privateers and merchant...

Royal Sovereign, HMS Mars, HMS Triumph, HMS Brunswick, HMS Bellerophon, two frigates and one cutter, HMS Phaeton, HMS Pallas, HMS Kingfisher when a French...

on 23 December 1796, appointing him to the sloop HMS Transfer. Maitland was moved to HMS Kingfisher in April 1797, and took her to cruise off Portugal...

After a brief command of HMS Kingfisher Wilson was promoted to post-captain on 2 September 1795. He temporarily commanded HMS Flora in 1798, and in 1801...

HMS Alceste was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as Minerve, an Armide-class frigate. In the spring of 1806, prior to her capture, she engaged...

Active successfully isolated Pomone, and when another British ship, HMS Kingfisher, appeared in the distance, Pauline fled. Alone and having lost heavily...

HMS Pique was a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had formerly served with the French Navy, initially as the Fleur-de-Lys, and later as...

Europeans to enter the bay were the crews of HMS Lady Nelson, commanded by John Murray and, ten weeks later, HMS Investigator commanded by Matthew Flinders...

1682 Oxford 54 (1674) – rebuilt 1702. Woolwich 54 (1675) – rebuilt 1702 Kingfisher 46 (1675) – a specialised fourth-rate designed for a role similar to that...

the service until October 1773, joining George Montagu, captain of HMS Kingfisher. Montagu was the son of Rear-Admiral John Montagu, then commander in...

lieutenant on 10 March 1797, and on 11 August the same year commander of Kingfisher, a brig mounting 18 six-pounder guns, with a complement of 120 men. In...

HMS Topaze was a Royal Navy 32-gun frigate, originally completed in 1791 as a French Magicienne-class frigate. In 1793 Lord Hood's fleet captured her...

September, 1803 she was near Gibraltar and, along with HMS Narcissus, spoke with USS New York. In August 1804, Active was under the command of Captain Richard...

sociable plover, or Chettusia gregaria. JPL · 8974 8975 Atthis 4076 T-2 The kingfisher, or Alcedo atthis. JPL · 8975 8976 Leucura 4221 T-2 The black wheatear...

under way. Duckworth formed up the smaller ships, Acasta, Magicienne, Kingfisher and Epervier, windward of the line-of-battle ships to keep them out of...

raiding operations in the West Indies. On 1 February, the British sloop HMS Kingfisher arrived at St. Kitts with news that three French ships of the line had...

Timoléon 15 Aug: HMS Etrusco 13 Oct: HMS Jason 3 Dec: HMS Kingfisher 9 Dec: Henry Addington 10 Dec: HMS Colossus 14 Dec: HMS Coquille December (unknown date):...

used on the ship Deptford's journey to Jamaica, 1761–1762. Between 1799 and 1804, Baron Alexander von Humboldt a German naturalist and explorer, traveled...