The Albacore-class gunboat, also known as "Crimean gunboat", was a class of 98 gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1855 and 1856 for use in the 1853-1856...
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Two classes of British Royal Navy gunboats have been named Albacore-class gunboats: Albacore-class gunboat (1855), a class of 98 gunboats built for use...
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The albacore is a species of tuna. Albacore may also refer to: HMS Albacore, various British Royal Navy ships Albacore-class gunboat (1855), built for...
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Cracker (1855) Boxer (1855) Stork (1855) Skylark (1855) Biter (1855) Swinger (1855) Albacore class (1855) Beaver (1855) Whiting (1856) Nightingale (1855) Violet (1856)...
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HMS Forward was a British Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869. After her sale, Mexican pirates captured her, and boats...
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HMS Albacore (1883) was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1883, the nameship of the 1883 Albacore class. She was sold in 1906. HMS Albacore (1909) was a destroyer launched...
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HMS Hardy (1856) (category Albacore-class gunboats (1855))
was a Albacore-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, notable for her action during the British involvement in the Taiping Rebellion. The Albacore-class was almost...
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The Dapper-class gunboat was a class of twenty gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1854–55 for use in the Crimean War. The Dapper class was designed...
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was a mortar vessel launched in 1855 and broken up in 1865. The sixth Pickle was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up...
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The Cheerful-class gunboat was a class of twenty gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1855 for use in the Crimean War. The Cheerful class was designed...
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HMS Havock (1856) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856 and sold in 1870. HMS Havock (1893) was a Havock-class destroyer launched in...
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HMS Hardy (1855) was a mortar vessel launched in 1855. She was renamed MV 12 later in 1855 and was sold in 1858. HMS Hardy (1856) was an Albacore-class wood...
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HMS Cockchafer (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1872. HMS Cockchafer (1881) was a Banterer-class composite screw...
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Thames Conservancy Board in 1867. HMS Blazer (1856) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1856, converted to a dredger and renamed YC29...
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gunboat) 1862 — Sacramento - (steam sloop) 1863 — Nipsic - (steam gunboat) 1863 — Shawmut - (steam gunboat) 1863 — Agamenticus - (Miantonomoh-class monitor)...
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HMS Surly (1856) (category Albacore-class gunboats (1855))
HMS Surly was an Albacore-class gunboat built for the Royal Navy. She was constructed in Newcastle by T & W Smith as part of the second batch, ordered...
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HMS Bustard (1818) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop; she was sold in 1829. HMS Bustard (1855) was an Albacore-class wood screw gunboat; she was sold at Hong Kong...
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HMS Sepoy (1856) (category Albacore-class gunboats (1855))
HMS Sepoy was a 4-gun Albacore-class gunboat of the Royal Navy launched in 1856 and broken up in 1868. The Albacore class was ordered to meet the sudden...
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HMS Grappler (1856) (category Albacore-class gunboats (1855))
HMS Grappler was an Albacore-class gunboat of the Royal Navy. She served on what is now the British Columbia Coast from 1859 until sold into commercial...
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9") on 19 October 1855. This allowed the navy to reuse the name HMS Surly for an Albacore-class gunboat ordered on 4 October 1855 and laid down on 15...
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HMS Forward (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869. HMS Forward (1877) was a composite screw gunboat launched...
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launched in 1855 and renamed MV.16 later that year. She was reclassified as a dockyard lighter in 1862. HMS Beacon (1856), an Albacore-class gunboat launched...
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HMS Banterer (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1872. HMS Banterer (1880) was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat launched...
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HMS Manly (1855) was a mortar vessel launched in 1855, but renamed Mortar Vessel 6 shortly afterwards. She was hulked in 1866. HMS Manly (1856) was an Albacore-class...
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HMS Redbreast (1855), a mortar vessel launched in 1855, renamed MV-19 a few months later, and broken up in 1865. HMS Redbreast (1856), an Albacore-class screw...
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HMS Dove (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold at Shanghai in 1873. HMS Dove (1893) was a 20-ton paddle gunboat built in sections...
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Musquito-class floating battery launched in 1794. She was broken up in 1803. HMS Sandfly (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855. She...
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HMS Plover (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sunk in 1859. HMS Plover (1860) was a Philomel-class gunvessel launched...
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HMS Raven (1855) was a mortar vessel launched in 1855 and renamed MV 13 later that year; she was ordered to be sold in 1856. HMS Raven (1856) was an Albacore-class...
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in 1857 and was broken up in 1867 HMS Magnet (1856) was an Albacore-class wood screw gunboat launched in 1856 and broken up in 1874. HMS Magnet (1885)...
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