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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HMAS Sydney (D48) (redirect from HMS Phaeton (1934))
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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French brig Nettuno (1807) (redirect from HMS Cretan (1808))
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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Moira (1813 ship) (section EIC voyage #2 (1828-1829))
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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