HMS Wasp was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat of the Royal Navy, built in 1880 by Barrow Iron Shipbuilding and wrecked off Tory Island in 1884...

establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Wasp, with one other government vessel using the name: HMS Wasp (1749) was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1749...

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted...

USS Wasp captured in September 1814. HMS Atalanta (1816) was a tender launched in 1816 and transferred to the Customs service the following year. HMS Atalanta (1847)...

London at Penistone; twenty-four passengers are killed. 22 September – HMS Wasp (1880) is wrecked on Tory Island, County Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives...

convicted of participating in male homosexual acts. 22 September – HMS Wasp (1880) is wrecked on Tory Island, County Donegal, with the loss of 52 lives...

sixth shot. However this is unlikely due to the fact HMS Wasp (1880) foundered in 1884 and HMS Wasp (1886) was lost with all hands in 1887. Following demolition...

East India Company 18-gun warship HMS Wasp – British brigantine Nathaniel Drinkwater series by Richard Woodman HMS Antigone – former French frigate HM...

from HMS Antrim, which attacked the Argentine submarine with depth charges. HMS Plymouth launched a Westland Wasp HAS.Mk.1 helicopter, and HMS Brilliant...

Firefly (1877) Banterer class Redwing (1880) Grappler (1880) Wrangler (1880) Wasp (1880) Banterer (1880) Espoir (1880) Bullfrog (1880) Cockchafer (1881) Starling (1882)...

22 – HMS Leander captures USS Rattlesnake 1814, June 28 – USS Wasp captures HMS Reindeer 1814, July 12 – American privateer Syren captures HMS Landrail...

Royal Navy. (1817–60). John Hill. (?–1861). HMS Curacoa. Eduard Hall. (?–1865). HMS Satellite. Seaman, HMS Satellite. Drowned off Magdalena 10 May 1865...

Gaieties Start". The WASP. December 21, 1918. p. 5. "The Fairmont". The WASP. January 11, 1919. p. 12. "Follies in Rainbow Lane". The WASP. February 8, 1919...

Mediterranean Fleet, as signal sub-lieutenant in 1880. Promoted to lieutenant on 23 September 1880, he returned to HMS Agincourt in February 1881 and commanded...

disadvantaged. The actions of the captain and men during the sinking of HMS Birkenhead in 1852 prompted praise from many, due to the sacrifice of the...

War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon, commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his...

sloops-of-war, again of smaller armament. The American sloops Hornet, Wasp (1807), Peacock, Wasp (1813) and Frolic were all ship-rigged while the British Cruizer-class...

the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...

mounting two 6-inch and two 4-inch guns, built for the Royal Navy between 1880 and 1892. The Banterer class was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, the Admiralty...

promoted to commander on 28 August 1851 and given command of the sloop HMS Wasp in the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1852; he went ashore with the Naval...

and came ashore on the north end of Amelia Island, Florida. 283 1880  United Kingdom HMS Juno – a training ship that disappeared with her entire crew after...

through 1896. During the Spanish–American War, Ward commanded the armed yacht Wasp. Commended for gallantry, he was advanced to lieutenant commander on March...

HMS Truant, Yu 1007 Other incidents 26 Jan: I-201 29 Jan: I-203 10 Feb: HMS Saga 14 Feb: Alfred Victory 3 Mar: Orphée 17 Apr: USS Wasp 8 May: HMS Orion...

Angel. p. 371. ...praised as an iconic chronicle of his generation and his WASP-ish class. Halberstam, Michael J. (February 18, 1953). "White Shoe and Weak...

beating foliage and discovered several new species, particularly of parasitic wasps. Bignell was born in Exeter and left school at the age of 12 to become a...

war. With widespread news of the battle and the capture of HMS Cyane, HMS Levant and HMS Penguin, the final engagements between British and U.S. forces...

the British and renamed HMS Detroit. USS Wasp |  United States Navy /  Royal Navy | 15 October 1812 Commanded by Jacob Jones. Wasp was a sailing sloop of...

crew presumed to be a British privateer but was, in fact, the British sloop HMS Coquette. The ensuing battle severely damaged General Armstrong. Its captain...

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...

plant-gathering at Swain's Bay to the kindness of Captain Henry Fairfax of the HMS Volage, who conveyed Eaton around the hard-to-access parts of the Bay in...