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    HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy 27 knot torpedo boat destroyer ordered from John I Thornycroft & Company under the 1893 – 1894 Naval Estimates. She was the...
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  • 1865. HMS Ardent was to have been a wooden screw sloop, but she was renamed HMS Rattler before her launch in 1843. HMS Ardent (1894) was an Ardent-class...
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  • HMS Boxer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1894. She spent several years operating with the Mediterranean...
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  • in 1887. HMS Boxer (1894) was an Ardent-class destroyer launched in 1894 and sunk in a collision with SS St Patrick on 8 February 1918. HMS Boxer (F121)...
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    HMS Bruizer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 27 February 1895 by John Thornycroft at Chiswick, and...
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    "Daring Class". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2010. "HMS Ardent Association Online". hmsardent.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25...
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    Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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    before being defeated in the Battle of Río de Oro by the British cruiser HMS Highflyer and scuttled by her crew, just three weeks after the outbreak of...
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    succumbed to her illness in Tissot's arms on 9 November 1882, "with the ardent faith of a neophyte and the silent resignation of a saint." After Kathleen...
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    attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...
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    and Kolesnik 1979, p. 87. Manning 1961, p. 39. Lyon, op.cit., pp.56. "HMS Ardent Association Online". hmsardent.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25...
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    Cuba Mail Steamship Company, commonly known as Ward Line, owned her from 1894 until 1914, and ran her between New York and Mexico via Cuba. In 1898 she...
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  • The vessel could stop from full speed in twice the length of the ship. HMS Ardent was destroyed by Argentinian aircraft in Falkland Sound in May 1982. All...
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    such as HMS Bellerophon, HMS Temeraire and HMS Superb; or after events or people in some way connected with him, such as HMS Collingwood and HMS St. Vincent...
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    as "a highlander in the custody of a lowlander", and an adversary as "an ardent Italian in the custody of a Scotsman". One of his earliest childhood memories...
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    HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse (the ships of Force Z) as well as HMS Hampshire were included in the designations. However, HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope...
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    the salvage of HMS Ardent when stranded on the west coast of Africa in 1858; HMS Royal Adelaide at Devenport 6 April – 25 June 1860; HMS Terrible in the...
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    Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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    HMS Empress of India was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. The ship was commissioned...
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    HMS Ramillies was a Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the Battle of Ramillies. The ship was built by J....
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  • Pullings. Aubrey is reinstated on the Navy List in London and gains command of HMS Diane, carrying the envoy to negotiate a treaty with Pulo Prabang and Maturin...
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    shipbuilder: HMS Havock and HMS Hornet from Yarrow (the Havock class). HMS Daring and HMS Decoy from John I. Thornycroft & Company (the Daring class) HMS Ferret...
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    HMS Phoenix was a Royal Navy Phoenix-class steel screw sloop, launched at Devonport in 1895. She saw action in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and later...
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    aboard training ship HMS Britannia, Dartmouth, Devon 1879–1880: Cadet, HMS Bacchante Mid, 1880–1883: Promoted to midshipman, HMS Bacchante Lt, 1886–1887:...
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    Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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    not an unrealistic figure: the radius of action for a similar ship, HMS Ardent of 1894, was given as 2,750 nautical miles at 13 knots. However, while Brassey...
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    Superintendent Elliot, was composed of the frigate HMS Samarang and the steamships HMS Nemesis and HMS Atalanta. Although the waterway was in places only...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Himalaya (1854)
    HMS Himalaya was built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company as SS Himalaya, a 3,438 gross register ton iron steam screw passenger...
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    Revolta da Armada (Revolt of the Navy), once again led by de Melo. On 16 April 1894, Aquidabã was anchored off the coast of Santa Catarina, near the Fortress...
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  • well as for the British navy ; others, such as the battleships HMS Canopus (1897) and HMS Prince of Wales (1902), were engined there. Scott was closely...
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