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    HMS Raven was a four-gun Lark-class cutter built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s. She was sold for scrap in 1859. Raven had a length at the gundeck...
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  • brig-sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1816. HMS Raven (1829) was a 4-gun survey cutter launched in 1829. She became a quarantine ship in 1848, was transferred...
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  • privateer in 1832. On 10 March 1812 Prospero was in company with HMS Acquilon, Raven, and the Hired armed cutter Princess Augusta at the capture of the...
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    the sloop HMS Raven to Toulon, and was present at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797. After escaping drowning off Cuxhaven, where Raven was lost and...
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    Negropont, Greece. She was refloated on 27 January with assistance from HMS Vesuvius and taken in to Piraeus, Greece, where she sank. She was later refloated...
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    HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently...
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    Isle of Grain. In 1903 Gannet was ordered to relieve the original HMS President of 1829, which had served as the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve drill ship...
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    operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Ordered for the Royal Navy as HMS Phaeton, the cruiser was purchased by the Australian government and renamed...
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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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  • Francis Morgan – 30 November 1796 – Hanged at Sydney for the murder of Simon Raven. Following his execution his body was gibbeted on Pinchgut Island in Sydney...
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    island is characterized by 30–70 m (98–230 ft) cliffs of rock or ice. Raven's Rock, a navigation hazard, lies 2.5 m (8.2 ft) below the water in the middle...
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    Roosevelt and Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales for 1941 Atlantic Charter meeting...
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    International Film Festival. The Haida nation was split between two moieties, the Raven and the Eagle. Marriages between two people from the same moiety were prohibited...
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    HMS Bacchus was a British Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and expended as a breakwater in 1829. In between, she recaptured or captured...
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    Cruizer design were placed from 1802 up to 1813. A final order in 1815 (HMS Samarang) was cancelled in 1820. The Cruizer-class brig-sloops proved to...
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  • British Royal Navy to build a counter. The following year they launched HMS Warrior, which was twice the size and had 4.5 inches of wrought iron armour...
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    Black-throated magpie-jay (category Birds described in 1829)
    northwestern Mexico. The black-throated magpie-jay was formally described in 1829 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors from a specimen collected...
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  • HMS Saracen was launched in 1812 at Portsmouth for the British Royal Navy. She had an active, though brief, naval career during which she captured a number...
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    Mundo receiving raking fire from HMS Victory by Robert Cleveley Nelson Boarding the San Josef by George Jones, 1829 HMS Captain capturing the San Nicolas...
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  • The Anglo-Dutch Relationship in War and Peace 1688-1988 (1990) - G. J. A. Raven and N. A. M. Rodger. John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh. ISBN 0-85976-292-0...
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  • Retrieved 2021-08-26. "History". The ss maggie. Retrieved 2021-09-01. "Raven". National Historic Ships UK. Archived from the original on 15 July 2016...
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    Venice and launched in June 1807. HMS Unite captured her a year later off Zara. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Cretan. She served in the Mediterranean...
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  • Calcutta on 29 November. Homeward bound, she was at Kedgeree on 15 January 1829 and Madras on 4 February. She reached St Helena on 25 April, and arrived...
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    HMS Zebra, was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built of teak in the East India Company's Bombay Dockyard and launched in...
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    introduced during the Islamic period. A superstition analogous to that of the ravens at the Tower of London states that if the apes ever leave, so will the British...
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    HMS Clio was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched at James Betts' shipyard in Mistleythorn in Essex on 10 January 1807. Her establishment...
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    Routledge and Sons]. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-297-45781-4. "The dragon and the raven, or, The Days of King Alfred / G.A. Henty". National Library Wellington...
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    A headmaster's diaries 1972–1986. Short Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1906021931. Raven, Simon (1986). The Old School – A Study in the Oddities of the English Public...
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  • Retrieved 9 June 2014. Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping. London. 1829. Retrieved 9 June 2014. "Guide to New South Wales State archives relating...
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    HMS Sophie was an 18-gun Cruizer class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She served during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During the War of 1812...
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