• HMS Scourge was a Bulldog-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally she was ordered as a Driver-class sloop, however...
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  • until she was lost in 1835. HMS Scourge (1844) was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1844 and broken up in 1865. HMS Scourge (1871) was an Ant-class gunboat...
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    HMS Albion, HMS Superb, HMS Raleigh, HMS Vanguard, HMS Belleisle, and HMS Brilliant. Paddle steamers: HMS Retribution, HMS Gladiator, HMS Scourge, HMS Devastation...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    the first-rate sloop HMS Scourge in the Mediterranean. Promoted to captain in 1859, he took command of the 21-gun corvette HMS Racoon from commissioning...
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    the Gadfly class. Blazer (1870) Comet (1870) Bustard (1871) Kite (1871) Scourge (1871) Snake (1871) Mastiff (1871) Bloodhound (1871) Arrow (1871) Bonetta (1871)...
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    HMS Vernon (1808); HMS Mersey (1820); HMS Alligator (1827); HMS Columbus (1837); HBM Sloop Pilot (1841); HMS Sydenham (1843); HMS Scourge (1848); HMS Edgar...
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    Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon and the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake, as part of the...
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    prelude to crucifixion, and in this context is sometimes referred to as scourging. Most famously according to the gospel accounts, this occurred prior to...
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    hunger". In February 1847 he showed Commander James Crawford Caffin of HMS Scourge some of those in the parish affected by the famine. Caffin wrote to a...
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  • film), Indian Tamil film A1 – Slave Pits of the Undercity, a component of Scourge of the Slave Lords adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons Larsen's Opening...
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    were nearly ready for service. Sharp, John G.M.The USS Columbia and the "Scourge of the West Indies Yellow Fever" http://www.usgwarchives...
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    The British captured her in 1796 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS Scourge. She captured a number of French privateers, primarily in the West Indies...
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    economics to Chicago economics was analysed by Nicholas Kaldor in The Scourge of Monetarism. The handing over of monetary policy to the bank became a...
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    Irish coast. On 12 February 1797 Phoenix was in company with HMS Unite, Stag, Triton and Scourge at the capture of the French privateer Difficile. She was...
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    the steamer HMS Scourge to Ireland Island in the "Imperial fortress" of Bermuda. After a year of acute ill health aboard the prison hulk HMS Dromedary,...
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    Syren commanded by Lieutenant Charles Stewart. She was renamed the USS Scourge. The French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars were a series of...
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  • historian John Keegan writing: We must recognise that our response to the scourge of terrorism is compromised by what we did through SOE. The justification ...
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    October. His first appointment as lieutenant was to the 14-gun brig-sloop HMS Scourge, which was sent to serve in the West Indies. Here Riou appears to have...
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    HMS Driver Class overview Name Driver-class paddle sloop Operators  Royal Navy Preceded by Alecto class Succeeded by Bulldog class Cost Driver: £39,707...
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    John Williams, returning from Rarotonga, used his influence to stem the scourge of alcoholism, but without success. Maihara the sister of Moeore on hearing...
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    HMS Warrior was so badly damaged, it was scuttled. The Royal Navy also lost destroyers HMS Turbulent (90 crew dead), HMS Ardent (78 crew dead), HMS Fortune...
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  • Retrieved 13 May 2023. de Looper, Michael (2017). "'This most dreadful scourge': Scarlet fever in Sydney, 1841". Health and History. 19 (2): 116–133....
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  • EH5.28.8-12, quoting the Little Labyrinth of Hippolytus, after being "scourged all night by the holy angels", covered in ash, dressed in sackcloth, and...
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    September 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2008. Cassidy, Sarah. "Stuckists, scourge of BritArt, put on their own exhibition", The Independent, 23 August 2006...
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    following March that he hoped that Gibraltar "will escape the dreadful scourge of last autumn, and I hope that General Fox has burnt down all the small...
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    synchronizer (22 Apr 1915), leading to an aviation period known as the Fokker Scourge; founded the US-based Atlantic Aircraft Corporation (1924) to manufacture...
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    Nichols Publishing Company. p. 6697. proved ineffectual to suppress the scourge, and it was not until the introduction of gunboats that the Spaniards succeeded...
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