HMS Brisk was a 14-gun wooden-hulled screw sloop designed by the Committee of Reference as part of the 1847 program. She is considered an enlarged Rattler...

1843 HMS Brisk (1851), a steam sloop launched in 1851 and sold in 1870 HMS Brisk (1886), a torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1906 HMS Brisk (1910)...

HMS Miranda was a 14-gun (15-gun from 1856) wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy. As part of the 1847 Program, she was designed by John Fincham, Master...

coast of Ireland. It was a partly cloudy but relatively warm day, with a brisk wind. Again, the dock facilities were not suitable for a ship of Titanic's...

his passion for natural science. However, it was his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 that truly established Darwin as an eminent geologist...

HMS Encounter was ordered as a First-Class Sloop with screw propulsion on 5 February 1845 to be built at Pembroke, in accordance with the design developed...

she described as the Ellice house "converted into a regular prison". A brisk firing commenced all around the cottage; bullets coming through the house...

list of shipwrecks in August 1851 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1851. "Ship News". The Times. No. 20884...

carried over 27,000 passengers to and from Margate and competition was brisk. The biggest boom came in the 1830s with the creation of the Star, Diamond...

Robins, who in 1864 accompanied an expedition up the River Niger aboard HMS Investigator, described slavery in the region: Upon slavery Mr Robins remarked...

passengers and crew who had left in the lifeboats by HMS Brisk under Captain Charles Webley Hope. The Brisk arrived in the Chathams on 20 May and a search of...

daybreak, as soon as the opposite shore could be made out, artillery began a brisk fire followed by all the noise the single machine gun company could produce...

Militia, accompanied by a 3-pounder cannon, and about 200 Potawatomi. A brisk battle took place before the Americans forced the British and their allies...

Giles, CBS News reporter who, during the COVID-19 pandemic, produced "A brisk walk with Nancy Giles", which documented her walk around the town, in particular...

the Colonies through the East India Company’s Secret Committee in London. Brisk business was enjoyed catering for the additional 2,000 troops and personnel...

his wife Euphemia née Mudie. His brother Robert, a surgeon on the ship 'HMS Brisk' died of fever near Sierra Leone (aged 25); and he had previously worked...

Bathurst, New South Wales, the first of three sons of the Reverend Edwin Bean (1851–1922), then headmaster of All Saints' College, Bathurst, and Lucy Madeline...

warehouse was constructed. Steam power was added to the marine railway in 1851 and additional stone outbuildings were constructed in 1854. The Marine Railway...

Alexander Gordon, RE, the whole of the garrison troops, officers and men of HMS Brisk, and a large number of civilians and friends. The Grahamstown Journal...

"Admiralty Court - Yesterday". Daily News. No. 1454. London. 21 January 1851. "America". The Times. No. 20624. London. 19 October 1850. col A-B, p. 5...