HMS Hornet was a Havock-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1893 and sold in 1909 for scrapping. Although the Daring-class...
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broken up in 1868. HMS Hornet (1868), a composite Beacon-class screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1899. HMS Hornet (1893), a Havock-class destroyer...
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(TBD) of the British Royal Navy. The two ships, Havock and Hornet, built in London in 1893 by Yarrow & Company, were the first TBDs to be completed for...
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of the bank, thus encouraging circulation. HMS Hornet (1893), a Havock class destroyer. HMS Havock (1893), the lead ship of the class, was built with...
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The vessel could stop from full speed in twice the length of the ship. HMS Ardent was destroyed by Argentinian aircraft in Falkland Sound in May 1982...
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boilers placed end-to-end, while Hornet had 8 water tube boilers. This resulted in an obvious external difference, since Hornet had 4 funnels (with the centre...
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shipbuilder: HMS Daring and HMS Decoy from John I. Thornycroft & Company HMS Havock and HMS Hornet from Yarrows (the Havock class) HMS Ferret and HMS Lynx from...
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boilers, this was the same 8 boiler configuration originally used on HMS Hornet. The ships produced 4,000 hp (3,000 kW) and could make 27 knots (50 km/h;...
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it was placed under the command of HMS Dolphin, but in 1926 it was separately commissioned as HMS Hornet. Hornet closed in 1936 and the site was leased...
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USS Constitution (section HMS Cyane and HMS Levant)
shipping lanes near Brazil, sailing with Hornet on 27 October. They arrived near São Salvador on 13 December, sighting HMS Bonne Citoyenne in the harbor. Bonne...
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Cruizer-class sloop (section Hornet)
which role her engines were removed. In May 1893 she was renamed Lark and in 1912 she was sold at Malta. Hornet served in the Baltic in 1854 during the Russian...
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City of Adelaide (1864) (redirect from HMS Carrick)
1893, she became a floating hospital in Southampton, and in 1923 was purchased by the Royal Navy. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick...
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which sink several German transports. 26 October Santa Cruz Islands – USS Hornet sunk in aircraft carrier battle near Guadalcanal 26–29 October Convoy HX...
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HMS Orontes was a 19th-century troopship of the Royal Navy, intended for carrying troops to southern Africa and the West Indies (rather than to India...
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Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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the Royal Navy from 1876 to 1885. He served on board HMS Hornet in the South China Seas and HMS Lark (a survey ship) in the western Pacific (especially...
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history all took place in Queensland. On 27 October 1857 Martha Fraser's Hornet Bank station on the Dawson River, in central Queensland took the lives of...
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Commodore John Rodgers in President. Other ships of the squadron were Congress, Hornet, and Argus; departed on a seventy-day North Atlantic cruise. A passing American...
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During the Second World War it formed part of HMS Hornet, the adjacent Coastal Forces base; and when Hornet was decommissioned (in 1957) the Yard became...
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Cockchafer (1881) Starling (1882) Stork (1882) Raven (1882) Albacore class HMS Albacore HMS Mistletoe HMS Watchful Bramble class Rattler (1886) Wasp (1886) Lizard (1886)...
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included the newly captured USS Macedonian (formerly HMS Macedonian) and the sloop of war Hornet. On May 24, 1813, the squadron departed New York. On...
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commander of HMS Hornet, a 16-gun cutter. The third lieutenant was John Gore, a 16-year Naval veteran who had served as master's mate aboard HMS Dolphin during...
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requested relief of command. Captain James Lawrence, late of Hornet and her victory over HMS Peacock, took command of Chesapeake on 20 May. Matters on board...
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Greenhithe, in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred...
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USS President (1800) (section As HMS President)
center of the Little Belt affair; her crew mistakenly identified HMS Little Belt as HMS Guerriere, which had impressed an American seaman. The ships exchanged...
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follow-on to the two prototype destroyers (Havock and Hornet) ordered from Yarrows under the 1892–1893 programme. The Admiralty did not specify a standard...
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follow-on to the two prototype destroyers (Havock and Hornet) ordered from Yarrows under the 1892–1893 programme. The Admiralty did not specify a standard...
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follow-on to the two prototype destroyers (Havock and Hornet) ordered from Yarrows under the 1892–1893 programme. The Admiralty did not specify a standard...
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and 17 February, the fleet was joined by the small sloop Fly, the sloop Hornet, and the schooner Wasp. On 17 February 1776, Hopkins decided to take advantage...
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appointments to HMS Brittania, HMS Garnet, HMS Inflexible, HMS Foxhound, HMS Melita, HMS President, HMS Pembroke, HMS Leander, HMS Hood, HMS Leviathan, HMS Bachante...
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