• borne the name HMS Dispatch, or the variant HMS Despatch: HMS Despatch (1691) was a 2-gun brigantine launched in 1691 and sold in 1712. HMS Despatch (1745)...
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    ships. USRC Eagle, along with two of the involved British ships HMS Narcissus and HMS Dispatch, are among six vessels celebrated in the lyrics of "Semper Paratus"...
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  • the British Royal Navy captured in 1799 and named HMS Dispatch. The Navy never commissioned Dispatch and sold her in 1801. Infatigable was commissioned...
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    HMS Dispatch (also Despatch) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Richard Symons & Co. at Falmouth and launched in 1804. Dispatch was instrumental...
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    1814 during the War of 1812 from the British ships HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy. Palmer...
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  • was wrecked on 14 April 1812 while returning to Falmouth from Malta. HMS Dispatch – any one of 16 vessels USS Despatch - any one of six vessels This article...
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    of Sir Thomas Hardy. British vessels included HMS Dispatch, HMS Terror, HMS Nimrod, HMS Pactolus, and HMS Ramillies. Hardy took the fleet to Block Island...
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  • July 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars and commanded the sloop HMS Dispatch at the Battle of Copenhagen in August 1807 during the Gunboat War. Promoted...
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    British squadron during the War of 1812 consisting of HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror. The ships appeared off Stonington Point on...
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    HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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  • until 1850. HMS Enchantress (1862) was a dispatch vessel launched in 1862, became the Admiralty yacht, sold for breaking up in 1889. HMS Enchantress (1888)...
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    side. Stonington (9–12 August 1814) British vessels HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy bombarded...
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  • of Stonington (August 9–12, 1814): British vessels HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy bombarded...
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  • Mediterranean as a dispatch vessel and tender, and was sold in 1748 at Minorca. HMS Enterprise was a 48-gun fifth rate launched in 1693 as HMS Norwich (1693)...
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  • commander and given command of the brig HMS Dispatch. On 19 March 1794 he was given command of the sloop HMS Kingfisher. Initially Gosselin commanded...
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    USS Wasp sinks HMS Avon 1814, October – The packet ship Grace repelled an attach by a U.S. privateer 1814, October 11 – HMS Dispatch defeats the US Revenue...
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  • 477-ton Arrow-class wooden screw dispatch vessel launched at Leamouth on 26 June 1854 and sold on 19 May 1862. HMS Arrow (1871), an Ant-class iron gunboat...
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    capturing the sloop HMS Dispatch on 12 July following a 90-minute engagement at 41°26′N 65°50′W / 41.433°N 65.833°W / 41.433; -65.833. Dispatch mounted 8 carriage...
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  • cancelled in 1849. HMS Vigilant (1856) was a wood screw gunvessel, built in 1856 and sold in 1869. HMS Vigilant (1871) was a wood paddle dispatch boat, built...
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    February 1813 near Madeira. On the night of 1–2 October 1814 Pomone and HMS Dispatch (or Despatch) used their boats to raid Drown Meadow (now Port Jefferson...
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    foundered at sea. On 3 April 1813 HMS Dispatch captured the Prussian vessel Enigheidt. Briton, HMS Belle Poule, and HMS Royalist shared by agreement. Belle...
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  • Dispatch boats were small boats, and sometimes large ships, tasked to carry military dispatches from ship to ship or from ship to shore or, in some cases...
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  • commissioned as a dispatch vessel. She was named Surprise in 1920. She was sold in 1923 but returned to service in 1939 and was renamed HMS Surprise. She...
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    ship's company were unavailing. The Royal Navy took Infatigable in as HMS Dispatch, which however it never fitted or commissioned. It sold her in 1801....
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    HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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    HMS Narcissus was the lead ship of the Royal Navy Narcissus-class 32-gun fifth-rate frigates, launched in 1801. She participated in the War of 1812. Narcissus...
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  • HMS Pearl was a 40-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. It was used during the War of Jenkins' Ear, and was one of the ships dispatched under Commodore George...
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    three-decker. She was considerably larger than her British contemporary HMS Victory and somewhat bigger than the French Bretagne. There is no complete...
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    HMS Ocean was a Landing Platform Helicopter, formerly the UK's helicopter carrier and the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy. She was designed to support...
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  • broken up, she served as a prison hulk in Bermuda. HMS Coromandel (1855) was a wooden paddle dispatch vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1853 for...
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