HMS Aetna (or HMS Etna) was the mercantile Success launched in 1803 at Littlehampton. The Admiralty purchased her in 1803 for conversion into a Royal...

of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Aetna (historically spelled Ætna) or HMS Etna, after the volcano Etna: HMS Aetna (1691) was an 8-gun fireship launched...

Her fate is unknown. HMS Meteor (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1861. HMS Meteor (1914) was an Thornycroft...

trade in enslaved people before the Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 and renamed her HMS Thunder. Thunder served in the Mediterranean and the Baltic; among...

HMS Dictator was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in...

HMS Euryalus was a Royal Navy 36-gun Apollo-class frigate that saw service in the Battle of Trafalgar and the War of 1812. During her career she was commanded...

HMS Heron was originally the merchant vessel Jason, launched at Newcastle in 1803, that the Admiralty purchased in 1804 for the Royal Navy for use as...

HMS Hydra launched in 1797 was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. From 1813 to 1817 she served as a troopship. She was sold in 1820. She was built...

1814 Terror and the bomb vessels HMS Volcano, HMS Starr, HMS Devastation, and HMS Aetna, and the rocket vessel HMS Erebus anchored off Fort McHenry to...

Navy captured in November 1796. She was taken into service as HMS Aetna and renamed to HMS Cormorant the next year. She captured several merchant vessels...

HMS Devastation was an 8-gun British Royal Navy bomb vessel launched in 1803 at South Shields as the mercantile Intrepid. The Navy purchased her in 1804...

HMS Nymphe was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was...

May 1778, he was given command of the bomb vessel HMS Aetna at that time and of the second-rate HMS Prince George the following year. Promoted to captain...

Cochrane tasked her with protecting Aetna during the move upriver. Newcombe therefore placed Beagle between Aetna and the grounded French battleships...

(1797) Tartarus (1797) Aetna (1803) Acheron (1803) Meteor (1803) Thunder (1803) Prospero (1803) Lucifer (1803) Devastation (1803) Thunder (1797) Ship sloops...

the first to accurately chart and describe Rockall. Vidal sailed aboard HMS Aetna in December 1835, carrying 12 chronometers. He intended to calculate the...

May 1795 Fate: Captured by HMS Melampus on 13 November 1796. Commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Aetna and later renamed HMS Cormorant. Wrecked off Egypt...

flagship, the 84-gun HMS Asia.[a] He served on the flagship until his promotion to his first command, the bomb vessel HMS Aetna on 13 May 1828. Lushington...

naval bases, although his letter was ignored. On 6 April the bomb vessel HMS Aetna, equipped with a heavy mortar, arrived with William Congreve, inventor...

become stranded. A fresh attack was ordered, utilising the bomb-ketch HMS Aetna and four gun-brigs partly armed with the 18-pounders from Aigle, there...

eventually returned to England and in December 1803 was appointed to command of the bomb vessel Aetna, to serve in the Mediterranean. On 22 October 1805...

Roads, accompanied by a squadron of small vessels and the bomb vessel HMS Aetna. The fireships failed to ignite any of the French warships, but their...

Mississippi, Shaw mustered 61 guns, 448 US Military men, and the ketches Ætna and Vesuvius to capture the former vice president of the United States (VP)...

Royal Navy's HMS Antelope. Bienfaisant ( French Navy): Siege of Louisbourg: The 64-gun ship was captured on 25 July by the Royal Navy's HMS Aetna. Echo ( French...

the First Coalition Carysfort 29 May 1794 1794, 28 May The recapture of HMS Castor. 0 War of the First Coalition 1 June 1794 1794, 1 June Action against...

Royal Navy sloop HMS Juno enters San Francisco Bay causing Montgomery to man his defenses. The large British ship, 2,600 ton, man-of-war HMS Collingwood,...