• HMS Whiting was a Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner (a type of vessel often described as a Bermuda sloop) of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of...
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  • 1712. HMS Whiting (1805) was a 4-gun Ballahoo-class schooner launched in 1805 that the French privateer Diligent captured in 1812. HMS Whiting (1812)...
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    Yorkshire]. She is a close replica of HMS Pickle based on available knowledge. Bermuda sloop Dispatch boat HMS Whiting (1805) Sans Pareil was Seymour's flagship...
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  • HMS Laura was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Bermuda. Laura served during the Napoleonic Wars before a French privateer...
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    the Embargo Law. HMS Whiting |  Royal Navy | 8 July 1812 A Royal Navy Ballahoo-class schooner of 75 tons and 4 guns, launched in 1805, Lieutenant Lewis...
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    HMS Reindeer (also Rein Deer) was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Samuel & Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe and was...
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    on 11 December 1805. A number of different builders in different yards built them, with all the first batch launching in 1804 and 1805. The second batch...
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    10 Augt. 1805" to all surviving claimants from the action. While sailing to Gibraltar with his prize in tow, Baker fell in with the 74-gun HMS Dragon on...
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    civil-naval relations deteriorated in Nova Scotia from 1805 to the War of 1812. HMS Whiting was in Liverpool for only about a week, but the possibility...
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    November 1805, Revolutionnaire, participated in the Battle of Cape Ortegal. She and Phoenix captured Scipion, which the Royal Navy commissioned as HMS Scipion...
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  • Caroline was launched at Calcutta in 1805. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC). Thereafter, she became a London-based transport...
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    paintings', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society.[1] Brendan Whiting (2004), Victims of Tyranny: The Story of the Fitzgerald Convict Brothers...
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    assigned to HMS Alert as a servant, but was soon transferred as an able-seaman to HMS Scipio, and then in July 1790 was made midshipman on HMS Bellerophon...
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  • and HMS Lynx captured the American merchant ship General Washington, claiming US Army arms and military stores on board were "contraband". In 1805 she...
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  • HMS Moucheron was a French privateer, built in 1799, that the British captured in 1801. The British government purchased her in 1802 for the Royal Navy...
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  • Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1801-1805). Burnaby Greene left Cockatrice in February 1807, moving to take command of HMS Foxhound. In 1807 J. B. Balderston...
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  • William Congreve, who had arrived with a transport, fitted King George, Whiting and the other hired armed cutter, Nimrod, with rockets. On 11 April the...
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  • HMS Comus was a 22-gun Laurel-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806. In 1807 she took part in one notable single-ship...
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    concise account of the origin and progress of the Rocket System, London: Whiting Fortsecue, Sir John (1910), History of the British Army, vol. VI, pp. 64–65...
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  • 1804. Captain Benjamin Richardson received a letter of marque on 16 August 1805. He sailed Albion from Portsmouth on 27 September, bound for Madras, Bengal...
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    Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2002) and Wanting (2008). Brendan Whiting's book Victims of Tyranny, gives an account of the lives of the Irish rebels...
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    December 1917 A Canadian cargo ship that struck a mine in Falmouth Bay. HMS Whiting  Royal Navy 15 September 1816 A Baltimore clipper that ran aground on...
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    president, the following year, a struggle broke out over their replacements. In 1805, Henry Ware was elected to replace Tappan as Hollis chair. Two years later...
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    the Third's Sound in 1791, it was referred to as King George's Sound from 1805. The name "King George Sound" gradually came into use from about 1934, prompted...
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  • HMS Briseis was a 10-gun Cherokee- class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1808 at Upnor, on the River Medway. She participated in one notable...
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    sloops HMS Redpole and HMS Lyra were equipped as light ships to guide the fireships into the channel. With these ships were the schooner HMS Whiting and...
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  • HMS Révolutionnaire, HMS Zebra 30 Jul: Elizabeth Henrietta July (unknown date): Governor Hunter 28 Aug: Caroline 15 Sep: HMS Whiting September (unknown...
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    coast of Portobelo after his failed invasion of Panama George Duff (1764–1805), Royal Navy admiral buried at sea after being killed in the Battle of Trafalgar...
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    the Napoleonic Wars over France and Spain that took place on 21 October 1805 off the coast of Cape Trafalgar. The site around Trafalgar Square has been...
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    civil-naval relations deteriorated in Nova Scotia from 1805 to the War of 1812. HMS Whiting was in Liverpool for only about a week, but it terrified...
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