HMS Phoenix was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the mythical bird, and was the fifteenth ship of the Royal Navy...
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been named HMS Phoenix, after the legendary phoenix bird. The earliest example of the use of HMS as an abbreviation is a reference to HMS Phoenix in 1789...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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HMS Goshawk was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the sixth Royal...
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destroyer that was torpedoed by U-27 and sank under tow off Vlorë, Albania. 40°23.5′N 19°14′E / 40.3917°N 19.233°E / 40.3917; 19.233 (HMS Phoenix (1911))...
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Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
politician. He commanded the sixth-rate HMS Phoenix at the Battle of Minorca in May 1756 as well as the third-rate HMS Dragon at the Capture of Belle Île in...
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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
HMS Lenox, a guardship at Portsmouth commanded by Captain Robert Roddam, Collingwood sailed to Boston in 1774 with Admiral Samuel Graves on board HMS Preston...
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Battle of Trafalgar (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
intense crossfire as they approached the Franco-Spanish lines. Nelson's own HMS Victory led the front column and was almost knocked out of action. Nelson...
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Cloudesley Shovell (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring to the fifth-rate HMS Nonsuch in July 1680. He returned to HMS...
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from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy as USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold...
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HMS Phoenix 1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMS Triton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise...
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Dates are launching dates. Protected cruiser SATS General Botha (1885, ex-HMS Thames) - Assigned 1922, scuttled 1947. Torpedo cruiser Patria (1893) - Decommissioned...
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Edward Belcher (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Strait as a surveyor.: 153 In 1835 he was surveying in the Irish Sea in HMS Lightning: 221 , and in 1836 he commanded a surveying ship on the north and...
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sail: HMS Botha (flotilla leader), HMS Archer, HMS Jackal, Phoenix and HMS Tigress (all refitting); HMS Beaver, HMS Druid, HMS Ferret, HMS Hind, HMS Hornet...
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for the French Navy. She was completed before World War I as part of the 1911 naval building programme. She spent the war in the Mediterranean, spending...
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The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
lieutenant on 23 February 1684 and assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Oxford before returning to HMS Phoenix in which he sailed to the East Indies on a mission to...
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Griffin HMS Princess Mary (60 guns) HMS Medway (60 guns) HMS Exeter (60 guns) HMS York (60 guns) HMS Winchester (50 guns) HMS Harwich (50 guns) HMS Preston...
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Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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William Cornwallis (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
against the British. Cornwallis detached Captain Richard Strachan in HMS Phoenix to intercept the French frigate Résolue and two French merchant ships...
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Pardon was brought first from Bermuda, then by Captain Vincent Pearse of HMS Phoenix, and received a mixed reception, some of those rejecting the pardon being...
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Fort Defiance (Brooklyn) (section H.M.S. Roebuck)
first test of the redoubts came when Admiral Howe sent two ships, Phoenix and HMS Rose, to run the American gauntlet by heading up to New York City....
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named Egeria Hall after HMS Egeria. It was constructed in 1995. After many years in the Surveying Service, in November 1911 she was put up to public...
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HMNB Portsmouth (redirect from HMS Nelson (shore establishment))
(opened 1859, closed 1973) HMS Mercury: RN Signals School 1941–1993, Leydene House, East Meon, near Portsmouth HMS Phoenix: Fire fighting training establishment...
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Mowlam: 1999. Lord Bhattacharyya: 1 October 2015. Ratan Tata: 1 October 2015. HMS Diamond, RN: 16 October 2014. The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire...
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Philip Howard Colomb (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
shipmate of the Serpent during the Burmese War of 1852–53; as mate of the Phoenix in the Arctic Expedition of 1854; as lieutenant of the Hastings in the...
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John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (category Grand Crosses of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece))
1908, to the armoured cruiser HMS King Alfred, on the China Station, where he served for two years. During 1910, 1911 and 1912, there was a series of...
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frigates HMS Itchen, HMS Exe and HMS Aire (all 1942), HMS Awe (1943) and HMS Dovey (1944); Flower-class corvettes HMS Campanula, HMS Bluebell, HMS Montbretia...
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HMAS Sydney (D48) (redirect from HMS Phaeton (1934))
opportunity around Sicily. However, early on 8 June, the British submarine HMS Phoenix reported that she had unsuccessfully attacked an Italian fleet including...
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H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened...
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