HMS Mosquito was a Beagle-class (or G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagle class were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn...

name HMS Mosquito, or the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito: HMS Musquito (1777) was a vessel in service in 1777. HMS Musquito (1794)...

HMS Racoon was a Beagle-class (or G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagles were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn (31 mph;...

The de Havilland Mosquito was a British light bomber that served in many roles during and after the Second World War. Mosquito-equipped squadrons performed...

HMS Basilisk was a Beagle-class (from 1913 G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagles were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of...

a proprietary colony under William Courteen, followed by James Hay I)  Mosquito Coast (1638–1860) (over Central America's Miskito Indian nation) Aden Protectorate...

destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899. This was the first turbine warship of any kind, and achieved a remarkable 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) on sea trials. By 1910, the...

1926 he took command of the HMS Ormonde surveying in British Guiana, and then worked in home waters for two years in HMS Beaufort. He was promoted to...

September – Last death from yellow fever in the Panama Canal Zone following a mosquito eradication program led by William C. Gorgas. October–December – Martha...

landing party at Bluefields during the Nicaraguan campaign to annex the Mosquito Coast. In 1895 he was transferred to the newly launched Majestic as acting...

knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)) and the experimental 36-knot (67 km/h; 41 mph) HMS Swift. The destroyers needed sufficient range to operate across the North...

semi-automatic rifle, a drawing of a new light tank design, a photo of a US Navy Mosquito boat, a photo of a grenade launcher, and reports on US tanks he had observed...

have been named HMS St Vincent, either in honour of the Earl or after that battle that he won. HMS St Vincent, commissioned in 1910, was the first of...

7 August 2019 at the Wayback MachineThe New Yorker, 5 August 2019 How Mosquitoes Changed Everything by Brooke Jarvis McMains 2015, p. 75. Gaunt, p. 204...

incorporates the Union Jack in its canton, due to long periods of contact in the Mosquito Coast. The Union Jack was used by the United States in its first flag,...

Navy was convinced of the superiority of the all-big-gun battleship like HMS Dreadnought over mixed-calibre designs such as the Danton class, which preceded...

23 March – HMS Albion laid down. 25 March – First deck landing by a twin engined aircraft, a Mosquito on HMS Indefatigable. 26 March – HMS Edgar launched...

The first Meteor F.1 prototype was used for deck handling trials aboard HMS Pretoria Castle in 1946 however no flights were attempted at that time. 1...

of Ekdo 262 service test unit attacked an RAF 540 Squadron de Havilland Mosquito, but failed to shoot it down on July 26, 1944. First jet on jet aerial...

engineer Ronald Eric Bishop (1903–1989), chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito James Brindley (1716–1772), canal engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859)...

Retrieved June 18, 2024. Riley, John (2005). The History of Greenfield Park 1910-1975. General Store Publishing House. p. 140. ISBN 9781897113189. "Gilles...

to prevent further outbreaks of the mosquito-borne malaria by reducing the local habitat of the Anopheles mosquito. Nevertheless, from the 17th century...

generally displayed on the ship's hull, though not on destroyer leaders such as HMS Montrose pennant D1. In May–June 1940 the Royal Navy was in the process of...

transponders were fitted to Mosquitoes of 109 Squadron, which developed the use of the device as part of the Pathfinder Force. The Mosquito was chosen because...

bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina. 1906 – HMS Dreadnought, the first of...

it will remain in force until 1954. January 9 – WWII: British submarine HMS Starfish is sunk in the Heligoland Bight. January 10 – WWII: Mechelen incident...

1912, which as it was said, resulted in "seriously depleting the local mosquito fleet". Steamships had no direct speed control from the bridge of the vessel...

Lea & Blanchard. p. xxxvii. Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6...

of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory...

fever was transmitted by mosquitoes, so Wilmington's outbreak had to be introduced by a third party and spread by mosquitoes in the city. During the Reconstruction...