HMS Wolf (or Wolfe) was a Merlin-class sloop launched at Dartmouth in 1804. She captured or destroyed four small Spanish or French privateers before she...
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Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wolf or HMS Woolf, after the mammal the wolf: HMS Woolf (1656) was a 16-gun ship, previously the Spanish...
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floating battery in 1804, and transferred to Customs as a store hulk in 1805. The Admiralty offered her for sale at Portsmouth in May 1814. HMS Pandour was a...
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the French there. The Navy bought her in 1804 and converted her to a storeship in 1806. After being renamed HMS Coromandel she became a convict ship and...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1804. 1804 (MDCCCIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday...
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in October 1804 and was subsequently taken into service with the Royal Navy. She was initially registered as HMS Iphigenia but renamed HMS Imperieuse...
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John Gould (category 1804 births)
John Gould FRS (/ɡuːld/; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced...
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Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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Farmer (1842–1903), American author, women's rights activist Lydia Mary Fay (1804–1878), American missionary, educator, writer, and translator Lydia Rodríguez...
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HMS Spencer was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 May 1800 at Bucklers Hard. Her designer was the French émigré shipwright...
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HMS Arab was a 22-gun post ship of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the 18-gun French privateer Brave, which the British captured in 1798. She served...
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his naval successes led Napoleon to nickname him le Loup des Mers (the Sea Wolf). He was successful in virtually all of his naval actions. Cochrane was dismissed...
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(HMS Nelson) Band of HM Royal Marines, Plymouth (HMS Raleigh) Band of HM Royal Marines, Scotland (MoD Caledonia, Rosyth) Band of HM Royal Marines, HMS Collingwood...
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line and chasing off regular French warships in the Battle of Pulo Aura in 1804, and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sinking the Australian light cruiser...
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captain to search for deserters from HMS Belleisle, HMS Bellona, HMS Triumph, HMS Chichester, HMS Halifax, and the cutter HMS Zenobia. Chesapeake was off the...
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Yuri Lisyansky; 1803–1806; the first Russian circumnavigation. John DeWolf; 1804–1808; circumnavigation by sea and land; first American to travel overland...
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(born 1951) Sir Rudolph Walter Bentinck (1868–1947), Royal Navy admiral Wolf Walter Rudolph Bentinck (1903–1992) Vivian Mark Bentinck (born 1945) Alice...
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population several times. There were 37 famine years in Iceland between 1500 and 1804. The first census was carried out in 1703 and revealed that the population...
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Europe, although several of the larger mammals such as the lynx, brown bear, wolf, elk and walrus were hunted to extinction in historic times. There are important...
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command of HMS Canada, HMS Powerful, HMS Invincible and HMS Formidable. In 1796, he was promoted to rear-admiral and raised his flag on HMS Prince. In...
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Thomas Jefferson (category Candidates in the 1804 United States presidential election)
presidential election, Jefferson again challenged Adams, and won the presidency. In 1804, Jefferson was reelected overwhelmingly to a second term. As president, Jefferson...
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least nine Royal Navy warships since 1744 – both as HMS Achilles and with the French spelling HMS Achille. A 60-gun ship of that name served at the Battle...
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19 August 1915, the German submarine U-27 was sunk by the British Q-ship HMS Baralong. All German survivors were summarily executed by Baralong's crew...
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1907 BF Briseis, mythological Trojan slave DMP · 655 656 Beagle 1908 BU HMS Beagle, Darwin's ship DMP · 656 657 Gunlöd 1908 BV Gunnlod, mythological...
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region between 1790 and 1818, a permanent settlement was established in 1804 at "Novo-Arkhangelsk" (New Archangel, today's Sitka, Alaska), and a thriving...
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extinct to the museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 1826–1830 HMS Adventure and HMS Beagle under the overall command of Phillip Parker King begin a...
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(1805–1865), British naval officer, hydrographer and meteorologist, captain of HMS Beagle, governor of New Zealand (1843–1848) and in 1854 established and directed...
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List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes (redirect from SS William H. Wolf)
Creek, Oakville. S.M. Douglas A former White Star dredger. HMS Speedy Royal Navy 8 October 1804 A schooner that sank off Brighton, Lake Ontario. 43°48′50″N...
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Stanley. Unfortunately for Stanley, she was captured as a prize of war by HMS Rosamond on September 5, 1812. Stanley did not know that the United States...
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who ruled first as the First Consul of France from 1799 to 1804, then as emperor from 1804 to 1815. He rose to power amidst the chaos and political turmoil...
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