HMS Blossom was an 18-gun Cormorant-class sloop-of-war. She was built in 1806 and is best known for the 1825–1828 expedition under Captain Beechey to...
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ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blossom: HMS Blossom (1806) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806. She was converted to a survey ship in 1825...
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Akademik Tryoshnikov HMS Alert (1856) America (airship) Antarctic Snow Cruiser HMS Assistance (1850) USS Bear (1874) HMS Blossom (1806) Bowdoin (Arctic schooner)...
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until the Navy sold her for £820 to Mr. Soames on 16 August 1838. HMS Blossom (1806) A first class share was worth £3164 17s 3d; a sixth-class share was...
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developed at the time. HMS Blossom (1806) Blossom Rock Navigation Trees (California Historical Landmark) Report Upon the Removal of Blossom Rock San Francisco...
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from Buenos Aires. From there, on 4 April, she sailed with HMS Andromache and HMS Blossom (1806) to Valparaiso to establish the Royal Navy's new Pacific...
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Wainwright C.B. was an officer in the Royal Navy. In 1806, he became captain of the frigate HMS Chiffonne and, in 1809, was the commodore of a squadron...
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HMS Hyacinth was an 18-gun ship-sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Great Yarmouth. In 1810 she was reclassed as a 20-gun...
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of Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) at the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Blossom reached as far north as Point Barrow, Alaska, the furthest point into the...
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[sic] Eastward in 1821-1822. In 1825, Beechey was appointed to command HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and...
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captured on 23 February 1812 by HMS Blossom. French privateer Grand Jean Bart, of Saint Malo, captured on 29 February 1812 by HMS Semiramis. After a chase of...
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HMS Undaunted was a Lively-class fifth-rate 38-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy, built during the Napoleonic Wars, which conveyed Napoleon...
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Henry Kellett (category 1806 births)
(2 November 1806 – 1 March 1875) was an Irish naval officer and explorer. Born at Clonacody in Tipperary County, Ireland, on 2 November 1806, Kellett joined...
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1802 or 1803, he married Maria Adye. They had at least three children. In 1806, Buchan was appointed as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and from about 1808...
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Joseph Billings (category 1806 deaths)
Joseph Billings (c.1758 – 1806) was an English navigator, hydrographer and explorer who spent the most of his career in Russian service. From 1790 to 1794...
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in 1806 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1806. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (4286). 7 January 1806. "Tuesday's...
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then to the Mediterranean. In 1808 Beaufort moved to Blossom. On 28 November 1808, Woolwich, HMS Active, Delight, and the hired armed ship Lord Eldon...
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midshipman on HMS Weazel, which shortly joined in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. Short periods of service on HMS Clyde and HMS Diligence followed...
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HMS Nymphe was a fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, formerly the French Nymphe, lead ship of her class. HMS Flora, under the command of Captain...
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Sir William Cornwallis in the Channel fleet as a first-class volunteer, in 1806 became a midshipman, and in 1810 received promotion to the rank of lieutenant...
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based out of the port. HMS Blossom was in the region during 1818. The next surveying expedition was commenced by HMS Sulphur and HMS Starling in 1837, with...
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hydrographer, Governor of New Zealand and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's second voyage of HMS Beagle, slit throat Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (172...
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Erebus and Mount Terror are named after two ships from his expedition: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914, led by Ernest...
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HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771. She had been the merchant vessel Marquis of Rockingham, launched in 1770 at Whitby....
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appointed to the 110-gun first-rate HMS Royal Sovereign (which had taken part in the Battle of Trafalgar); he was promoted in 1806 to able seaman, then 2nd master's...
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John Arthur Morrell, who became a commander and served aboard HMS Eagle during an 1806 attack on Naples, then held by Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte...
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distinguishing himself joined the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806, serving on the merchant ship Nadezhda under the captaincy of Adam Johann...
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commanders, including Pavel Nakhimov (1802-1855), Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov (1806-1854), Vladimir Istomin (1810-1855), and Grigory Butakov (1820-1882). An...
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Cephalotus (section Blossoms, fruit and seeds)
Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour, botanist to Nicolas Baudin's expedition. In 1806, Jacques Labillardière used these specimens as the basis of his publication...
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Neufchatel; and in 1822, promoted to the rank of captain and commander of HMS Blossom of twenty-six guns. Alexander, heir and successor. Henry Dundas entered...
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