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    The Cormorant-class gunvessels (sometimes known as Eclipse-class gunvessels) were a class of 4-gun first-class gunvessels built for the Royal Navy in...
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    The Philomel-class gunvessel was a class of wooden-hulled screw-driven second-class gunvessels built for the Royal Navy between 1859 and 1867, of which...
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    gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy. For gun-brigs see List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy. Diana (1823) Mowhawk (1843) Bann class (1855) Gleaner...
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    HMS Myrmidon (1867) (category Cormorant-class gunvessels)
    HMS Myrmidon was a Cormorant-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1867. She served on the North America and West...
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    The Vigilant-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy was an enlarged version of the Arrow-class gunvessel of 1854. Both classes were designed for shallow-water...
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    The Plover-class gunvessels were a class of wooden gunboats built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They mostly served overseas and were retired early...
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  • Racer-class brig launched in 1837, converted to coal hulk C29 in 1860, renamed C15 and sold in 1908. HMS Lily (1861), a 4-gun Cormorant-class gunvessel launched...
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    HMS Nassau (1866) (category Cormorant-class gunvessels)
    HMS Nassau was a Cormorant-class wooden-hulled gun vessel of the Royal Navy. She was the sixth and to date last Royal Navy ship to bear that name. Powered...
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  • November 1821. HMS Cormorant (1842) was a paddlewheel sloop launched in 1842 and broken up in 1853. HMS Cormorant (1856) was a screw gunvessel launched in 1856...
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    Albert Denison and Gerald Otho Fitzgerald on an estate of £14,085. Cormorant-class gunvessel "DENISON, Rear-Adm. Hon. Albert Denison Somerville", Who Was Who...
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  • Tartarus-class paddle gunvessel launched in 1834 and broken up in 1860. HMS Tartarus was to have been a Cormorant-class wooden screw gunvessel, laid down...
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    HMS Eclipse (1860) (category Cormorant-class gunvessels)
    HMS Eclipse was a four-gun Cormorant-class first-class gunvessel launched in 1860 from the shipyard of J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall. She served on...
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  • command of HMS Cormorant, a Vigilant-class gunvessel, and served with at the capture of the Dagu forts, in the Second Opium War. The Cormorant led the attack...
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  • Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes 7 January  United Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Espoir Philomel-class gunvessel For Royal Navy. 9 January  United...
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  • Palermo, Sicily, Italy to New York. HMS Eclipse  Royal Navy The Cormorant-class gunvessel ran aground at Tauranga, New Zealand. She was refloated. Eve  United...
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  • Baltic port. She was a total loss. HMS Eclipse  Royal Navy The Cormorant-class gunvessel ran aground at Wellington, New Zealand. She was refloated. Eliza...
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  • Tennessee River off Johnsonville. HMS Racehorse  Royal Navy The Cormorant-class gunvessel was wrecked 5 leagues (15 nautical miles (28 km)) south east of...
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  • Royal Navy. 5 June  United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Myrmidon Cormorant-class gunvessel For Royal Navy. 5 June  United Kingdom Messrs. Wigram's Blackwall...
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  • July 1865 Ship State Description HMS Eclipse  Royal Navy The Cormorant-class gunvessel was driven ashore on the coast of Australia. Subsequently refloated...
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    Pylades class – 6 ship sloops, 1793–1795 Pylades (1794) Alert (1793) Albacore (1793) Peterel (1794) Ranger (1794) Rattler (1795) Cormorant class – 7 ship-sloops...
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  • Country Builder Location Ship Class Notes 2 January  Kingdom of Great Britain Randall & Brent Rotherhithe Cormorant Cormorant-class ship sloop For Royal Navy...
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  • all surviving claimants from the action. On 5 December Cynthia and the gunvessel Urchin were in company with the 36-gun frigate Florentina when Florentina...
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    (1985) Small Bird-class patrol craft Cormorant - commissioned 1985 Hart - commissioned 1985 Jura (1972) offshore patrol craft Island-class offshore patrol...
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  • Order date Number and class Vessel names Contract or dockyard Named on 10 April 1854 6 Arrow-class despatch gunvessels Arrow, Beagle, Lynx, Snake, Viper...
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    Mediterranean (COMGIBMED). In the late 1980s two small patrol craft, HMS Cormorant, HMS Hart, were reported as being attached to FO Gibraltar. The post of...
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    mostly soldiers. The gunvessels Melampus captured were N°s 169, 174, 277, 286, 287, and 311. Frisk succeeded in capturing Gunvessel n° 288, armed with one...
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    Tisiphone class, the Admiralty expanded its fleet with the acquisition in 1794 of a number of merchant vessels. Most served as small gunvessels, and none...
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    possibly around 1797, and probably in Port Mahon. Cormorant captured her on 19 March 1799. Cormorant was in the Mediterranean proceeding to a rendezvous...
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    Corburn Cordelia Coreopsis Corfe Castle Corfield Corfu Coriander Corinthian Cormorant Cornel Cornelia Cornelian Cornet Castle Cornflower Cornwall Cornwallis...
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    cruisers destroyers torpedo boats fireships frigates gun-brigs gunboats and gunvessels mine countermeasure vessels monitors patrol and attack craft royal yachts...
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