the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rainbow, after the rainbow, a common meteorological phenomenon: English ship Rainbow (1586) was a 26-gun galleon launched...

Look up rainbow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that appears as a multicolored arc that forms with the sunlight...

believed that HMS Triad had been sunk by a mine, and that the ship sunk by the Enrico Toti was in fact the R-class submarine HMS Rainbow, which was patrolling...

HMCS Rainbow was an Apollo-class protected cruiser built for Great Britain's Royal Navy as HMS Rainbow entering service in 1892. Rainbow saw time in Asian...

HMS Rainbow was a Rainbow-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The Rainbow-class submarines were designed as improved versions of...

It is often stated that the Enrico Toti sank HMS Rainbow. However, the submarine Enrico Toti sank was HMS Triad. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships...

Rainbow was a galleon of the English Tudor navy, built at Deptford Dockyard by Peter Pett (the first of that name in this extensive family), and launched...

reached the rank of commander in 1936, while commanding the submarine, HMS Rainbow. In 1938, he attended a staff course at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich...

HMS Rainbow was a frigate of the Royal Navy, built in 1823. It was a sixth rate sloop with 26 guns. It was commanded by Henry John Rous from 1825 to 1829...

HMCS Rainbow, after the rainbow. HMCS Rainbow (1891), an Apollo-class protected cruiser operated by the Royal Navy from 1893 to 1909 as HMS Rainbow, transferred...

the French Revolutionary Wars. As commander of the fourth-rate ship HMS Rainbow, he was one of the most successful British naval commanders during the...

As lieutenant: HMS Portsmouth HMS Bristol As captain: HMS Suffolk during the Battle of Barfleur HMS Rainbow HMS Ossory HMS London HMS Greenwich during...

of a single carronade broadside fired at close range by the frigate HMS Rainbow under Henry Trollope caused a wounded French captain to capitulate and...

Batz between a French naval frigate, Hébé, and a Royal Naval frigate, HMS Rainbow. This battle was notable as the first proper use of a carronade, and...

Toti. For years, it was assumed that Enrico Toti had engaged and sunk HMS Rainbow, which was thought to be operating in the same area. At the time of her...

{RRHS}, 1997). On 20 August 1828 Captain Henry John Rous on the frigate HMS Rainbow dropped anchor at Byron Bay. His mission was to discover a navigable...

Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1809 and took her into service as HMS Rainbow. She was sold in 1815. Iris was built to plan by Louis Bretocq, a plan...

the fifth-rate HMS Rainbow, the third-rate HMS Fougueux (in which he took part in the capture of Gorée in 1758), the fourth-rate HMS Princess Mary, the...

Danger area in 1828 in HMS Rainbow, a sixth-rate frigate. In August 1925, the council erected directional signs to Rainbow Bay. Rainbow Bay is one of the most...

comment on the ketch HMS Deptford in October that year. In June 1669 he was given command of HMS Advice, followed by HMS Rainbow between 1670 and 1672...

HMS Challenger was a survey ship of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy associated with the discovery of Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the oceans...

fight with HMS Rainbow and HMS Avon. The British captured Néréide during the action of 20 May 1811, and commissioned her into the Royal Navy as HMS Madagascar...

British 44-gun fifth rate HMS Rainbow captured Hébé in 1782. (The British took Hébé into service as HMS Hebe but in 1805 renamed her HMS Blonde). The class of...

9:30 am on 27 October, a party from HMS Broke went on board and attached tow ropes. The oceangoing tugs HMS Marauder and HMS Thames had arrived and took the...

Corneliszoon Hooft Unknown date: HMAS Yarra Other incidents 22 Jan: HMS Rainbow 30 Jan: President Roosevelt, Roma 8 Feb: USS Whipple 10 Feb: I-54, I-55...

1588, he was appointed Admiral of the Narrow Seas and took command of HMS Rainbow and the Squadron of ships that took part in the Battle of Gravelines...

The Italian merchant ship Antonietta Costa rammed and sank submarine HMS Rainbow while on a convoy from Bari to Durazzo. Accidental ramming can also occur...

officers of the war battled each other off the coast of Nova Scotia. HMS Rainbow (44 guns), under the command of British Admiral George Collier, captured...

nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) south of the Isle of Wight, in company with HMS Listrac (former French armed merchant ship), when she encountered five German...

20 kilometres south of Cape Byron, Australia's most easterly point. HMS Rainbow, commanded by Capt. Henry Rous, first sailed into the Richmond River...