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    HMS Merlin was one of the two original Merlin-class sloops that served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. She was launched in 1796 and...
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  • one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Merlin, after Merlin, the wizard in Arthurian legend (the shore establishment RNAS Donibristle...
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    Merlin (Welsh: Myrddin, Cornish: Merdhyn, Breton: Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician...
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    HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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  • a further shipment arrived on Commander Thomas Dundas' ship HMS Merlin in December 1796. But upon his arrival, Dundas noted panic in the settlement and...
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    of the line Merlin-class sloop (1795) Albatross-class brig-sloop (1795) eight 18-gun brigs HMS Dragon (1795) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Acasta (1795)...
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  • South Shields in 1801 was bought by the Royal Navy in 1803, becoming HMS Merlin Hercules (1812 ship) was apparently an American ship in origin. She made...
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  • discharged from the ship." —From a unanimous petition of the crew, HMS Eurydice, 24 April 1796 On 8 June 1794, Eurydice, along with the 36-gun Crescent, the...
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    aboard the sloop-of-war HMS Merlin, in the English Channel, under Captain James Luttrell. Seymour moved with Luttrell to HMS Portland in 1781. The Portland...
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    Jemmy (1662–unknown) Henrietta (first ship of that name) (1663–unknown) Merlin* (1666–unknown) Monmouth (1666–unknown) Navy (1666–unknown) Saudadoes (1670–unknown)...
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    ( Spain): The ship was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Experiment. She was taken in to Bermuda. Merlin ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by the French...
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  • past featuring Edward Burne-Jones's Days of Creation, The Beguiling of Merlin and The Mirror of Venus and James McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Black and...
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    Haran. She was launched in May 1793 at Bayonne. The British frigates HMS Thetis and HMS Hussar captured Prévoyante in 1795 and the British took her into the...
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    Joined later by the fourth-rate, 50-gun HMS Isis and the 16-gun sloop HMS Merlin, the British vessels were subjected to heavy fire when they engaged the...
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    Group 2 x Sea-class 15 m survey/hydrography vessels (Merlin and Fantome) HQ Amphibious Task Group HMS Vivid RNR (relocated to the South Yard from Mount Wise...
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  • unidentified HMS Alliance submarine Autobot takes Cade, Viviane, Cogman and Bumblebee to the Knights' sunken ship to recover the Staff of Merlin in The Last...
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  • since retaken and arrived at Jamaica." The recapture was the work of HMS Merlin, which captured the "English Ship Bellona, of Ten Guns, and Six Hundred...
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  • engine led R.J. Mitchell to propose the 350 mph Type 300 with the 1000 hp Merlin engine, and a £10,000 contract was offered for this aircraft to be ready...
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    galleys). The first ship to be built at the dockyard, a 10-gun pinnace named HMS Merlin (or Merlyon), was launched in 1579. The dockyard received its first royal...
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  • sloop HMS Merlin, and in March 1795 examined the coastal defences of the east coast of England from the River Thames to Boston aboard the galley HMS Hawk...
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    2001). "The Convicts of the Eleanor", by David Kent and Norma Townsend (Merlin Press, London, 2002). "A Commonwealth of Thieves", by Thomas Keneally (Random...
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    Pacific Science. 45 (2): 131–151. Retrieved 3 September 2020. Merlin (1991), p. 146 Merlin (1991), p. 145; Allen (1969), p. 5 David W. Steadman (2006)....
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    Premier David Burt says he was a "miracle baby" as their Jamaican mother, Merlin, suffered complications during her pregnancy. "Roban: Happy to work in the...
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  • was captain of HMS Captain with the Mediterranean Fleet under Lord Hood. In October 1793 he was ordered, along with HMS Bedford and HMS Speedy, to attack...
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    London (UK): Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd. p. 153. Merlin M.D. (1972). Man and marijuana: Some aspects of their ancient relationship...
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    HMS Roebuck was a fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy which served in the American and French Revolutionary Wars. Designed in 1769 by Sir Thomas Slade to...
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    HMS Childers was a brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy, initially armed with 10 carriage guns which were later increased to 14 guns. The first brig-sloop...
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  • "Jalouse, Childers, and Merlin being unfit for the service of this Country, are ordered home with the first Convoy to be repaired". Merlin and Childers went...
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  • HMS Pluto was a 14-gun fire ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1782. Pluto was converted to a sloop in 1793. She spent the period of the French Revolutionary...
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  • painter (d. 1796) September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782) September 6 – John Joseph Merlin, born Jean-Joseph Merlin, Liège-born...
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