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    HMS Monkey was a schooner of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1826 at Jamaica and assigned to the West Indies squadron. She made three notable captures...
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  • paddle tug. HMS Monkey (1826) was a schooner assigned to the West Indies squadron, launched 1826 and wrecked in 1831 near Tampico. HMS Monkey (1831) was...
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    HMS Magpie was a 4-gun Magpie-class schooner of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Jamaica in June 1826 as the lead ship of the class. Her design was...
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  • her in 1826. The navy sold Assiduous on 5 May 1825. Vice Admiral Lawrence Halsted, Commander-in-Chief, West Indies, ordered HMS Magpie and Monkey built...
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  • HMS Nimble was a Royal Navy 5-gun schooner-of-war. She was employed in anti-slave trade patrol from 1826 until 1834, when she was wrecked on a reef with...
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    HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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    HMS Superb was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and the fourth vessel to bear the name. She was launched on 19 March 1798 from...
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  • captured on 31 March 1823, and took into service. The Navy sold HMS Renegade in January 1826. Zaragozana may originally have been a slaver, or a privateer...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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  • London Zoo (redirect from Monkey Valley)
    managed under the aegis of the Zoological Society of London (established in 1826), and is situated at the northern edge of Regent's Park, on the boundary...
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    Voladora 1829, June 26 – HMS Monkey captures Midas 1830, September 7 – HMS Primrose captures Veloz Passagera (details) 1832, June 3 – HMS Speedwell captures...
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  • their prizes, and captured a slave ship. The Navy sold her in 1826. On 20 March 1823 HMS Grecian captured the pirate schooner La Gata, a felucca, and two...
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    Bedford Pim (category 1826 births)
    Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim FRGS (12 June 1826 – 30 September 1886) was a Royal Navy officer, Arctic explorer, barrister, and author. He was the first...
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  • Duchess of Portland was launched at Troon in 1826. In the next 40-some years she sailed as a West Indiaman, and then around Britain. In 1831 she survived...
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    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...
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    Record Office Portrait photographs of the officers of HMS Erebus (1826) and the captain of HMS Terror (1812), National Maritime Museum Collection The...
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    They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys." Before the First World War, a royal match with Edward's second cousin...
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    Green. July 12 – Captain James Cook sets off from Plymouth, England, in HMS Resolution on his third voyage, to the Pacific Ocean and Arctic, which will...
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  • water bills". BBC News. BBC. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 1 February 2024. "Monkey caught in Highland garden after five days on the loose". BBC News. BBC....
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    Madison. On March 28, 1814, Porter encountered British frigate HMS Phoebe and the sloop-of-war HMS Cherub and the battle of Valparaiso ensued. He surrendered...
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    small Danish vessel, Admiral Juel. In 1808 he engaged in a sea battle with HMS Sappho; the British captured Admiral Juel and treated Jørgensen as a privateer...
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    Blue Day Book by Bradley Trevor Greive. A small part of Helen Garner's Monkey Grip is set in Hobart as the main characters take a sojourn there. Children's...
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    consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses...
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    Slave Trade". The American Historical Review. 119 (5): 1826–1827. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.5.1826. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved...
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    frigates, with either 32 or 44 guns. Pellew's flagship was HMS Indefatigable and Warren's HMS Révolutionnaire. At the time of the French Revolutionary Wars...
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    Expedition in a cairn on King William Island, after deserting their ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with their surviving 105 crew members on April 22 to attempt...
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  • Asia (1798 ship) (category Maritime incidents in February 1826)
    source). She then became a West Indiaman. She was wrecked at Guadeloupe in 1826. Asia first appeared in British shipping registers in 1800. On 22 May 1805...
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    of Wales and their tutor John Neill Dalton. They temporarily shipped into HMS Inconstant after the damaged rudder was repaired in their original ship,...
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  • & told him they hurt no English Men." Hamilton afterwards transferred to HMS Bedford for the remainder of the journey. The day after Stone was captured...
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    be made, and the first review claimed it made a creed of the "men from monkeys" idea from Vestiges. Human evolution became central to the debate and was...
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