HMS Swallow was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Peirson Lock to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at the Yard...
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1728. HMS Swallow (1732) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1732. She was renamed HMS Princess Louisa in 1737 and was broken up in 1742. HMS Swallow (1744)...
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yacht at Plymouth HMS Lichfield (1730) 50-gun ship of the line at Plymouth HMS Saltash (1732), 8-gun sloop at Plymouth HMS Swallow (1732) 60-gun ship of...
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HMS Princess Louisa. She was wrecked in 1736. HMS Princess Louisa was a 60-gun fourth rate launched as HMS Swallow in 1732 and broken up in 1742. HMS Princess...
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given command of the 6-gun fireship HMS Charles. In May he moved to the 18-gun frigate HMS Swallow Prize. In Swallow Prize Hardy served in the Channel Islands...
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of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the...
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February 1721, Atkins sailed from Spithead for the coast of Guinea with the Swallow and the Weymouth, sent to put down piracy on the west coast of Africa....
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Letter of Marque sloop "Swallow". In September 1777 while on station in Jamaica she captured the American privateer Swallow and with HMS Ruby also captured...
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initially in the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and then transferred to the fourth-rate HMS Reserve in November 1678 and to the fourth-rate HMS Mary Rose in June 1679...
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1729 Launched Royal Sovereign 1732 Designed Spy 1732 Launched Spy 1732 Appointed Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard. 1732? Superannuated with a pension...
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USS Constitution (section HMS Cyane and HMS Levant)
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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HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 8 August 1693. She was one of two 50-gun...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1766–68: HMS Dolphin and HMS Swallow)
English navigator Samuel Wallis, on board HMS Dolphin, accompanied by Philip Carteret on the consort ship Swallow. In August 1766, the two ships passed through...
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Edward Jacobowsky DMP · 705 706 Hirundo 1910 KX The bird genus Hirundo (swallows) DMP · 706 707 Steina 1910 LD Mr. Stein, a benefactor of the Breslau Observatory...
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T-2 The sand martin (Riparia riparia), a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family JPL · 8599 8600 Arundinaceus 3060 T-2 The great reed warbler (Acrocephalus...
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Windsor 60 (1729) – rebuilt 1745 Deptford 60 (1732) – reduced to 50 guns 1752, sold 1767 Swallow 60 (1732) – broken up 1742 Tilbury 60 (1733) – burnt 1742...
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Greenhithe, in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred...
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Affairs Rauf Bey and British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos, and it took effect...
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City of Adelaide (1864) (redirect from HMS Carrick)
purchased by the Royal Navy. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick (to avoid confusion with the newly commissioned HMAS Adelaide), and...
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at Le Havre – captured by the English Navy November 1704, becoming HMS Swallow's Prize, 32. Victoire, 26 guns, design by René LeVasseur, launched September...
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employed as a journeyman (a runner) for Mr Moy, a velvet cap-maker on Swallow Street. Heavy drinking Moy leaves the socially aware Hawkes to cultivate...
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Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several...
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Navy, HMS Swallow fires its cannons as Roberts sails his ship Royal Fortune toward the oncoming Swallow in order to gain time by forcing Swallow to turn...
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moments, he was given his breakfast, which he tried eating but was unable to swallow. His favorite niece, Nellie Madison Willis, who sat by to keep him company...
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Antarctic was edited by Brian Roberts and posthumously published 1912 – A barn swallow ringed by James Masefield in Staffordshire, England is recovered in Natal...
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HMS Conqueror sank the light cruiser ARA General Belgrano, but lost the destroyers HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry and the frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope...
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and so a new ship, HMS Centurion, and HMS Rippon which was due for rebuilding, were built with slightly altered dimensions. In 1732 the Admiralty decided...
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of piracy although he is later reprieved. January 27 The crew of the ship HMS Welfare, commanded by John Strong, become the first European people to land...
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1774-death) Lauchlan Macleane c. 1727 1778 (lost as passenger in foundering of HMS Swallow (1769) en route home from India) Arundel (1768–71) Governor of St Vincent...
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The design depicts the silhouette of the barn swallow with the text ‘HIRUNDO RUSTICA’ (the barn swallow in Latin) at the top right, in semi-circle. At...
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