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    HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, Minerva-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy. This frigate was most noted for her intrusion into Nagasaki harbour in 1808...
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  • the Royal Navy have been named HMS Phaeton or Phaëton after Phaëton, the son of Helios in Greek mythology: HMS Phaeton (1691), a purpose-built fireship...
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  • patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus Double Phaeton, a Gräf & Stift luxury automobile c. 1910 HMS Phaeton (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy Phaethon...
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  • launched in 1781 that HMS Latona and HMS Phaeton (1782) captured in 1793. The Royal Navy took her into service as the 28-gun sixth rate HMS Blonde. She was...
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  • HMS Ganges was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1782 at Rotherhithe. She was the first ship of the Navy to bear the...
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    designed by Edward Hunt HMS Minerva 1780 – broken up 1803 HMS Arethusa 1781 – broken up 1814 HMS Phaeton 1782 – Sold 1827 HMS Latona 38-gun fifth rate...
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    British navy. Such ships include: HMS Phaeton (1782) HMS Arethusa (1781) HMS Amphion (1798) HMS Alcmene (1794) HMS Argus (I49) The Royal Australian Navy...
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    renamed Flore Américaine, fitted as a privateer in 1793, taken by HMS Phaeton (1782) in 1798, not recommissioned. Félicité, (launched 1756 at Le Havre)...
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    a French privateer that Phaeton and Anson captured in 1798. She was renamed HMS Trompeuse in 1799 and foundered in 1800. HMS Mercury (1807) was a tender...
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  • However, that same year the HMS Phaeton (1782)#Nagasaki Harbour Incident occurred, in which a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Phaeton entered Nagasaki harbor under...
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    and 28 February. She also shared in Phaeton's capture or recapture of Aventure, Hazard, and Daphne, and with Phaeton and a number of other vessels in the...
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    74-gun ships HMS Russell, HMS Thunderer and HMS Marlborough, ahead to scout for French forces. At 6 am on 28 May the attached frigate HMS Phaeton signalled...
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    Royal Sovereign, HMS Mars, HMS Triumph, HMS Brunswick, HMS Bellerophon, two frigates and one cutter, HMS Phaeton, HMS Pallas, HMS Kingfisher when a French...
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  • in 1760 by HMS Aeolus and taken into service as HMS Blonde. She was wrecked in 1782. Blonde, launched in 1781, that HMS Latona and Phaeton captured in...
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    privateer. HMS Phaeton and HMS Anson captured her on 8 September 1798 after Phaeton had chased her for 20 hours. Captain Robert Stopford, of Phaeton, in his...
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  • transferred to command HMS Lively but in April that ship was wrecked off Cadiz. His next command was HMS Phaeton in the following year. In Phaeton Morris fought...
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  • Vanguard, Phoenix, Latona, and Phaeton. In 1798 Nelson was detached into the Mediterranean by Earl St. Vincent with HMS Orion, Alexander, Emerald, Terpsichore...
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    HMS Latona was a 36-gun, fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served during the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the...
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    escorted by a squadron under Captain Fleetwood Pellew, aboard the 38-gun HMS Phaeton joined them. The two squadrons sailed together, arriving at Malacca on...
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    by the Royal Navy's HMS Melampus. Resource ( France): The brig, a privateer, was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Phaeton and HMS Stag (1794). Sally ( Great...
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    Dockyard. HMS Phaeton Builder: John Smallshaw, Liverpool. Ordered: 3 March 1780 Laid down: June 1780 Launched: 12 June 1782 Completed: 27 December 1782 at Plymouth...
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    line HMS Royal Sovereign, the 74-gun ships of the line HMS Mars, HMS Triumph, HMS Brunswick and HMS Bellerophon, the frigates HMS Phaeton and HMS Pallas...
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  • Lord William FitzRoy (category 1782 births)
    FitzRoy. FitzRoy entered the Navy on 21 April 1794, on board the frigate Phaeton, firstly serving under Captain William Bentinck, and following the battle...
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    1794–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7. Media related to HMS St Fiorenzo (ship, 1782) at Wikimedia Commons...
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  • and not HMS Speedwell; HMS Speedwell was at Gibraltar and under the command of Lieutenant Gibson. In June 1795, HMS Weazle and HMS Phaeton captured the...
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  • Station. In doing so he saw service on HMS Thorn, HMS Portland, HMS Bulldog, HMS Sphinx, HMS Phaeton, HMS Bedford, and HMS Salisbury, the latter of which while...
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  • Bellerophon, Vanguard, Phoenix, Latona, and Phaeton. Some reports attribute the actual capture to Phaeton and Latona. The Royal Navy classed Blonde as...
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    September 1798, after a 24-hour long chase, Anson and Phaeton captured Flore. Captain Stopford, of Phaeton, in his letter described Flore as a frigate of 36...
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    Hawk Roebuck Hound Vulture Wolf Hunter Vulcan Blaze Flame Strombolo Aetna Phaeton Lightning Vesuvius Phoenix Firebrand Terrible Vesuvius Blaze The earlier...
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    HMS Edgar was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, that saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...
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