• She was renamed HMS Swallow in 1660 and was wrecked in 1692. HMS Swallow (1661) was a 6-gun ketch purchased 1661, sold 1674. HMS Swallow (1672) was a 2-gun...
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    HMS Swallow was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1745, she initially served in home waters as a convoy escort and cruiser...
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    HMS Swallow was a 10-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy that prior to her commissioning was briefly known as HMS Galgo. Launched in 1744, the ship...
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    HMS Swallow was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 10 February 1703. Swallow was rebuilt...
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  • Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Swallow Prize: HMS Swallow Prize (1692) was a French 18-gun sixth rate, captured in 1692. She was recaptured...
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    LÉ Ciara (redirect from HMS Swallow (P242))
    Kong waters, and was delivered in 1984 by Hall, Russell & Company as HMS Swallow (P242). The ship was passed to the Irish Naval Service in 1988 and was...
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  • 1767 (ship's time), while serving in a voyage in the South Pacific on HMS Swallow, captained by Philip Carteret. Pitcairn was born in Burntisland, Fife...
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  • Look up swallow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swallow is a family of birds. Swallow or Swallows may also refer to: Swallowing, transferring a substance...
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    of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the...
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    HMS Swallow was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in December 1805, nine months late. She served the Royal Navy through the Napoleonic Wars, capturing...
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    1768, written by her master. Dolphin sailed in 1766 in the company of HMS Swallow, under the command of Philip Carteret, who had served on Byron's circumnavigation...
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    HMS Swallow was an 18-gun Albatross-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1795 and sold in 1802. During her naval career she captured...
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    HMS Swallow was a Nymphe-class composite screw sloop and the twenty-seventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Developed and constructed for the...
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  • In 1781 the British Royal Navy purchased HMS Swallow on the stocks. The Navy sold her in 1795. She became a West Indiaman and a hired armed vessel for...
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    Gunner Robarts of HMS Ardent with two lieutenants, Cecil Buckley and Hugh Burgoyne, one from HMS Miranda and the other from HMS Swallow, volunteered to...
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  • ISBN 978-1-85285-573-4. ...Colonel John Cunningham from his cabin on HMS Swallow... Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development...
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  • HMS Swallow was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Peirson Lock to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at the Yard...
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  • Swallow served the British Royal Navy as a ship's tender. These vessels were never commissioned and so technically do not qualify for the prefix "HMS"...
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    English navigator Samuel Wallis, on board HMS Dolphin, accompanied by Philip Carteret on the consort ship Swallow. In August 1766, the two ships passed through...
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  • HMS Swallow was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Richard Symons, Little Falmouth as the packet ship Marquis of Salisbury for Captain Sutton, launched...
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  • Swallow was a 6-gun unrated Ketch which served in the English Royal Navy, bought in 1661. The term "Ketch" refers to a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast...
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    Captain Chaloner Ogle of HMS Swallow came upon the pirate ships Royal Fortune, Ranger, and Little Ranger at Cape Lopez. Swallow veered away to avoid a shoal...
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    HMS Swallow was an S-class destroyer, which served with the Royal Navy. The S class were a cheaper and faster alternative to the larger V and W class...
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    HMS Caprice was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered on 16 February 1942 from Yarrow, Scotstoun. She was originally to be named HMS Swallow...
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    HMS Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth...
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    the Royal Navy. On 3 July 1767 the 15-year-old boy, aboard the sloop HMS Swallow, was the first person to sight an unknown island in the south Pacific...
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    captain and was given the command of HMS Dolphin as commander of an expedition accompanied by Philip Carteret on HMS Swallow with an assignment to circumnavigate...
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  • Pitcairn Island was sighted on 3 July 1767 by the crew of the British sloop HMS Swallow, commanded by Captain Philip Carteret. The island was named after Scottish...
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    The first recorded visit this atoll was Commander Philip Carteret on HMS Swallow in 1767, just a few days after he had discovered Pitcairn Island. Carteret...
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    the 1764–1766 and 1766–1768 voyages of HMS Dolphin under John Byron and Samuel Wallis, the voyage of HMS Swallow under Philip Carteret (1766–1769), as...
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