• HMS Ariel was a 20-gun Sphinx-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. The French captured her in 1779, and she served during the American Revolutionary...
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  • name: HMS Ariel (1777), a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1777, captured by the French ship Amazone in 1779 and lent to the Americans as USS Ariel until...
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    up 1787 HMS Ariel 1777 – taken by French l'Amazone in 1779 HMS Narcissus 1781 – wrecked off New Providence 1796 Porcupine class 24 guns, 1777–81; designed...
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  • named Ariel, after the sprite Ariel in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. USS Ariel (1777), a 16-gun sloop-of-war, originally the Royal Navy's HMS Ariel...
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  • 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)...
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    May 1777, remaining her captain into 1778. Camilla remained off the North American coast during this time, and Phipps's next command, the 20-gun HMS Ariel...
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    French had captured her and taken her into Gorée. Aggie (1777 ship) was launched in Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed...
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    a brief time on HMS Bounty he was taken off by the First Lord and moved to HMS Ariel before Bounty sailed. He was then moved to HMS Leander, where he...
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    merchantmen as well as the Royal Navy vessel HMS Fox. Later on July 8, 1777, however, the Hancock was captured by HMS Rainbow of a pursuing squadron, and became...
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    Paul Jones during the naval battle off of Flamborough Head, England against HMS Serapis in the celebrated engagement of September 23, 1779. He became one...
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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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    American Revolutionary War, where she became famous for her battle with HMS Quebec; in 1783, she brought the news that the war was over to America. She...
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    inflicted by Ariel according to the command of Prospero: PROSPERO Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? ARIEL To every article...
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    Regiment Continuental Light Dragoons, 1777 Eric J Griffiths 1978 1978 HN2845 Private Connecticut Regiment, 1777 Eric J Griffiths 1978 1978 HN2846 Private...
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    Royal Navy's HMS Albion. HMS Ardent ( Royal Navy): The 64-gun third rate was captured on 17 August by the French Navy's Junon. HMS Ariel ( Royal Navy):...
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  • destination of Kindley Field, Bermuda. Star Tiger's sister aircraft G-AGRE Star Ariel also disappeared over the western Atlantic, with the loss of all seven crewmen...
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    Archive. Buchan 2006, p. 89 Buchholz 1999, p. 19 Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel (1967). The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution. MJF Books. ISBN 1567310214...
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  • (PDF). state.nj.us. Retrieved 29 July 2021. "The History of the HMS Cerberus and HMS Lark". noaa.gov. Retrieved 17 September 2021. "Revolutionary War...
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    one dog. William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, in which the character Ariel refers to the "still-vex'd Bermoothes" (I.ii.229), is thought to have been...
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    Understanding Cyber Conflict: Fourteen Analogies, Chapter 14, George Perkovich and Ariel E. Levite, Eds., Georgetown University Press, 2017. Tidy, Joe. Ransomware:...
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    French frigate Amazone (1778) (category 1777 ships)
    Boston on 11 June 1780. On 7 October 1779, Amazone captured the 20-gun HMS Ariel. On 2 May 1780, she departed Brest with the 7-ship and 3-frigate Expédition...
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    division under Lapérouse, recently promoted to Captain after capturing HMS Ariel, with his flag on Astrée. Both ships were light frigates, designed for...
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    Statue of Ariel by Charles Wheeler....
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    from the original on 8 February 2006. Retrieved 24 August 2016. Bogle, Ariel (11 August 2016). "New Wikipedia Project Champions Women Scientists in the...
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    HMS Caroline was a 36-gun fifth-rate Phoebe-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was designed by Sir John Henslow and launched in 1795 at Rotherhithe...
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  • Lassell (1799–1880); Lassell also discovered the moons Hyperion (1848), Ariel (1851), and Umbriel (1851). 1924: The Eddington limit – the natural limit...
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  • and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. 1943 – World War II:...
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  • German submarine U-12 is hunted down by Royal Navy destroyers HMS Ariel, HMS Acheron and HMS Attack off the Firth of Forth and sunk with the loss of 19 of...
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