in 1850 and named her HMS Assistance. Assistance participated in two Arctic expeditions before her crew abandoned her in the ice in 1854. Assistance was...
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between 1848 and 1850 and soon converted to exploration ships: two steamships, HMS Pioneer and HMS Intrepid, the other four (Resolute, Assistance, Enterprise...
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HMS Assistance (1850) was a discovery vessel, formerly the merchant vessel Baboo. She was purchased in 1850 and abandoned in the Arctic in 1854. HMS Assistance (1855)...
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Advance (1850) Airship Italia Akademik Fyodorov Akademik Tryoshnikov HMS Alert (1856) America (airship) Antarctic Snow Cruiser HMS Assistance (1850) USS Bear...
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service from 1825, and broken up in 1850. HMS Royal Oak (1862) was an ironclad frigate launched in 1862 and sold in 1885. HMS Royal Oak (1892) was a Royal Sovereign-class...
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HMS Assistance was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at a private yard on the River Medway to the draught specified by the...
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York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's...
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HMS Assistance was one of six 40-gun fourth-rate frigates, built for the Commonwealth of England under the 1650 Programme, after the Restoration of the...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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Horatio Austin (HMS Resolute), Erasmus Ommanney (HMS Assistance), plus two steam tenders, Pioneer and Intrepid (Cpt. John Bertie Cator 1850). Ommanney finds...
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SS Arctic (redirect from SS Arctic (1850))
cheerful a scene as the heart could crave." Arctic was launched on January 28, 1850, from Brown's yard on New York's East River, before a large crowd. According...
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of Trade. She was sold in 1903. Arctic Hell-Ship : the voyage of HMS Enterprise, 1850-1855 by William Barr, University of Alberta Press, USA, 2007, ISBN 0-88864-482-5...
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HMS La Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford. She was named after the 1692 Battle of...
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Owen Stanley (category 1850 deaths)
Narrative of the Voyage by H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the Late Captain Owen Stanley R.N., F.R.S etc, during the years 1846-1850. London: T. & W. Boone...
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Dockyard, and launched in 1650. After the Restoration in 1660, she was renamed HMS Bonaventure after a previous ship built in 1653 that had been blown up three...
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Horatio Hornblower (redirect from HMS Crab (fictional Hornblower vessel))
the matter by forcing a duel with his tormentor. He is then transferred to HMS Indefatigable under Edward Pellew and distinguishes himself. He fends off...
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The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8. Media related to HMS Albion (ship, 1842) at Wikimedia Commons...
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HMS Royal George was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1827 at Chatham Dockyard. In 1853 she was fitted...
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Calliope on 28 November 1850 and died in Sydney on 2 November 1853. A memorial to him was placed in St James' Church. Captain Gennys of HMS Fantome took command...
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1853, she ran aground in the Dardanelles. She was refloated with assistance from HMS Firebrand. Rodney was fitted with screw propulsion in 1860, completed...
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HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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engaged and the Great Britain was re-floated on 27 August 1847 with the assistance of HMS Birkenhead. The Birkenhead was never commissioned as a frigate, as...
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escorting a convoy of 137 merchant ships in the Baltic, with the assistance of the bomb vessel HMS Thunder and two gun-brigs. They left Karlskrona that day and...
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HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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attached to the training establishment HMS Vernon and in the next year served on the Ton-class minesweeper HMS Pollington. Laurence then served briefly...
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HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, which set out from Portsmouth, England, in 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales...
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Resolute desk (section HMS Resolute)
ships and explorer. HMS Resolute, captained by Sir Henry Kellett, was joined by HMS Intrepid, HMS Pioneer, HMS Assistance, and HMS North Star, all under...
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led an expedition in 1850 that also attempted to find the missing explorers. George F. McDougall was second master on board HMS Resolute. Although the...
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HMS Queen Charlotte was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1790 at Chatham. She was built to the draught of...
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