HMS Racoon was a Pearl-class steam corvette. Racoon was launched on 25 April 1857 at Chatham Dockyard. In July 1863 she ran aground in Loch Ness and was...

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Racoon, after the raccoon: HMS Racoon (1782) was a 14-gun brig-sloop. In 1782 she was under the command...

HMS Charybdis (1859) HMS Cadmus (1856) HMS Racoon (1857) HMS Satellite (1855) HMS Scout (1856) HMS Scylla (1856) HMS Pearl (1855) HMS Pelorus (1857)...

HMS Orpheus was a Jason-class Royal Navy corvette that served as the flagship of the Australian squadron. Orpheus sank off the west coast of Auckland...

under Keppel again on the fourth-rate HMS Raleigh in the East Indies and China, until she was wrecked near Macau in 1857. He was recommended for the Victoria...

Department by William H. Webb, was launched in New York City, in November 1857. She was a copper-plated steamer that could make speeds of up to eleven knots...

Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 4893. Liverpool. 16 October 1863. "HMS Racoon (1857)". Davis. Retrieved 19 April 2020. "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard...

Hulks ceased to be used in Great Britain on the final expiry of the Act in 1857. Converting the ships to prison hulks involved removal of the rigging, masts...

HMS Edgar (1862); HMS Medea (1865); HMS Doris (1868); HMS Constance (1868); HMS Valorous; HMS Racoon (1874). HMS Galatea, 1865 (left of center) HMS Galatea, Halifax...

(1855–1933), United States Army major general William Black, captain of HMS Racoon, 1811–1815 William Black (1771–1866), Canadian shipper, merchant, and...

Sumner Dred Scott v. Sandford The Impending Crisis of the South Panic of 1857 Lincoln–Douglas debates Oberlin–Wellington Rescue John Brown's raid on Harpers...

June 1893) was a Royal Navy officer who died when his flagship HMS Victoria collided with HMS Camperdown during manoeuvres off Tripoli, Lebanon. Tryon was...

Southampton on 1 October 1856 for Mumbai, arriving on 27 December 1856. In March 1857 she was involved in transporting troops to the Persian Gulf for the Anglo-Persian...

Minnehaha was a barque built in 1857 and wrecked on 18 January 1874 in the Isles of Scilly. On 18 January 1874, while travelling from Callao, Peru to Dublin...

they agreed. At 10:00 on 26 August, the Archer-class protected cruiser Racoon arrived at Zanzibar Town and was anchored in line with Thrush and Sparrow...

York City on 23 April 1855, and again sailed for the Far East on 19 August 1857, to base at Shanghai and patrol in support of America's burgeoning trade...

brig-sloop. Latouche captured the brig, HMS Racoon. Latouche then tacked into the Delaware River, as HMS Vestal, HMS Bonetta, and the prize Sophie, led by...

HMS Malacca was a 17-gun wooden sloop of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 9 November 1847 from Moulmein, Burma to be built of teak. As a Surveyor's...

Jackson on 18 March and headed for Callao, Peru. She made another voyage in 1857 to Sydney and another in 1863 to Keppel Bay near Yeppoon and Moreton Bay...

Islands. In the Second World War, some of her iron was scavenged to repair HMS Exeter, one of the Royal Navy ships that fought Graf Spee and was badly damaged...

the United States, where she became a practice ship for midshipmen until 1857, when she was placed in ordinary service.[citation needed] During the American...

She spent the early years of her career traveling to the Shoalhaven. By 1857 she had moved to include Wollongong. She spent much of 1858 traveling to...