The Colonial sloop Norfolk was built on Norfolk Island in 1798 of Norfolk Island Pine. She was wrecked in 1800. "The necessity of a vessel to keep up a...

south east of St Maartens. Later, in company with Boston, Norfolk captured a small cutter sloop. Lt. Calvert was ordered by Commodore Murray 2 August to...

ships have been named Norfolk, including: Norfolk (1798 sloop) was built on Norfolk Island in 1798 and was wrecked in 1800. Norfolk (1800 ship) was built...

ship collisions and groundings. These include but not limited to: Norfolk (1798 sloop) SS Cawarra SS Colonist (1889) SS Lindus (1881) Wendouree (1882)...

built on the island, the sloop Norfolk, used by Matthew Flinders to circumnavigate Van Diemen's Land, was constructed in 1798. He lacked confidence in...

together to Philadelphia. On 16 June, Ganges, with Norfolk, captured the 8-gun French privateer sloop Vainquere (formerly British Harlequin) 16-18 Leagues...

midshipman and sent to join the 8-gun sloop HMS Saltash on 18 March 1734, serving off Ireland. He then transferred back to Norfolk on 16 August, joining Admiral...

after retaking Norfolk, Virginia, but the aged and damaged ship was not returned to service; instead, United States was held at the Norfolk Navy Yard until...

HMS Sirius, Hibbs had helped to build the 25-ton decked sloop Norfolk that was completed in 1798 on the orders of Captain Townson, the commanding officer...

promoted Rainier to commander on 3 May 1777, giving him command of the 14-gun sloop HMS Ostrich. On 8 July of the following year, Rainier engaged and captured...

a sloop-of-war named Yorktown along the African coast, to disrupt the slave trade. His commands included the Constellation in 1855, and the Norfolk Naval...

Duke of Portland by Matthew Flinders during his 1798 circumnavigation of the island in the sloop Norfolk with George Bass. The Pyemmairre name of the Cape...

USS Vincennes was a 703-ton Boston-class sloop of war in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1865. During her service, Vincennes patrolled the Pacific...

one in return. After passing the Congress she ran into and sunk the U.S. sloop of war Cumberland… At 3:30 the Merrimack took a position astern of us, at...

nature that had just captured a French sloop, the sloop/cutter "Le Garde Le Pelican" was then captured by Norfolk. On 17 November stopped a schooner with...

his viscountcy and his barony created in 1798, both "of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk", became extinct upon his death. However...

aborigine named Bungaree with whom Flinders had previously sailed on the sloop Norfolk. On 22 July Investigator left Port Jackson, sailing north in company...

Mediterranean Squadron. From 1829 to 1830 he served as an officer aboard the sloop-of-war USS Falmouth of the West India Squadron. From 1833 to 1834 he was...

Secretary of State. USRC Pickering was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1798 for the Revenue Cutter Service. Captain Jonathan Chapman was her first commander...

United States. Two years later, he was promoted to captain and commanded the sloop-of-war Warren during the final months of the Quasi-War with France. In a...

Invincible Bonaparte or Invincible Buonaparte), which the British captured in 1798. She is best known for her wreck in January 1800 in which all but one of...

USS Fairfield was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. Fairfield was launched 28 June 1828 by New York Navy Yard; and first put to sea 20 August...

Captain George Vancouver (/vænˈkuːvər/; 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored...

commanded the sloop HMS Swift. If so, he drowned when the ship was lost with all hands in a typhoon in the South China Sea in 1797 or 1798. Hayward is not...

on the first of what were to be two punitive expeditions to Sumatra. The sloop-of-war Peacock was also dispatched, and, on the recommendation of Woodbury...

Falcon ( French Navy): The 18-gun sloop was captured by the Royal Navy. HMS Hinchinbrook ( Royal Navy): The 10-gun sloop was captured by the French Navy...

ships of the Potomac class were appropriated, but never built. List of sloops of war of the United States Navy List of United States Navy ships Bibliography...

brother, Samuel Ward Flinders, a midshipman from the Reliance) on the sloop Norfolk on a coastal survey as an interpreter, guide and negotiator with local...

Third Rate ship of the line 'Dragon' (1798)". Threedecks. Retrieved 16 January 2022. "British sloop 'Pheasant' (1798)". Threedecks. Retrieved 16 January...

Withers was the son of Thomas Withers, yeoman, of Knapton, North Walsham, Norfolk, and Priscilla his wife. He was baptised on 17 September 1769. On 4 June...