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    HMS Miranda was a Doterel-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Devonport Dockyard and launched on 30 September 1879. This class of ship was part of...
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  • HMS Miranda. HMS Miranda (1851) was a screw sloop launched in 1851. She was redesignated a corvette in 1862 and scrapped in 1869. HMS Miranda (1879)...
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    and Sarah Cotton. In 1879, Acland was promoted to the rank of Commander. In May 1883 he received command of the sloop HMS Miranda on the Australian Station...
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    courts-martial for crew from HMS Adamant, HMS Atlas, HMS Caesar, HMS Defiance, HMS Glory, HMS Haughty, HMS Neptune, HMS Queen Charlotte and HMS St George The Vlieter...
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    Major-General's Song (category 1879 songs)
    "Modern Major-General's Song") is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. It has been called the most famous Gilbert...
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    Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby. From 29 July 1879 to 9 May 1882 he was captain of HMS Duke of Wellington, which was the flagship of the officer...
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    White Sea. In Autumn 1854, a squadron of three warships led by the sloop HMS Miranda shelled and destroyed Kola. An attempt to storm Arkhangelsk proved abortive...
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  • (1865–1936), American baseball player Hércules de Miranda (1912–1982), Brazilian footballer Hércules Florence (1804–1879), French-Brazilian painter and inventor...
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  • Justicia) Lancashire HMS Lord Clive Maloja HMS M30 HMS M31 HMS M33 Nomadic Olympic Orduna Pakeha HMS Raglan Regina HMS Sir Thomas Picton HMS Terror Themistocles...
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  • Mines. Retrieved 21 May 2021. HMS Firebrand Memorial "St. Hilda". Durham Mining Museum. Retrieved 14 May 2021. Atty, Miranda (23 December 2012). "1962: The...
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    The Pirates of Penzance (category 1879 operas)
    premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where it was well received by both audiences and critics. Its London debut...
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    HMS Doterel Class overview Name Doterel-class sloop Operators  Royal Navy Cost Between £48,700 (Miranda) and £52470 (Gannet) Built 1878–1880 In commission...
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    X205 y X221 Tipo BDK BDK-1 renamed LCT-1. Ex-HMS LCT(4) 1253, ex- Foca (1948–1978) BDK-2 renamed LCT-2. Ex-HMS LCT(4) 1323, ex- Morsa (1948–1983) BDK-3 renamed...
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    mainstream attention after the debut of the Broadway show Hamilton. Lin-Manuel Miranda played the title role and wrote the musical based on a biography by Ron...
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    under military command although no civilian has received the award since 1879. Since the first awards were presented by Queen Victoria in 1857, two-thirds...
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  • the number "Right Hand Man" from the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, George Washington refers to himself with irony as "The model of a modern...
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  • 2022. "Morre o último piloto veterano da Segunda Guerra, Major-Brigadeiro Miranda Corrêa" (Press release) (in Portuguese). Brazilian Air Force. 16 September...
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    museum HMS Agincourt 1867 H Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead 407 ft (124 m) 59 ft 6 in (18.1 m) 5-mast 6,638 tons burthen 10,800 tons warship HMS Minotaur...
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    men. Captain Dawson of HMS Miranda led a mission to Ambae Island, killing a chief suspected of murdering blackbirders, while HMS Diamond went on a "savage-hunting...
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    & Reynolds (1989), pg 24 "HMS - ViewItem". www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 21 October 2021. "HMS - ViewItem". www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved...
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    Superintendent Elliot, was composed of the frigate HMS Samarang and the steamships HMS Nemesis and HMS Atalanta. Although the waterway was in places only...
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  • it will remain in force until 1954. January 9 – WWII: British submarine HMS Starfish is sunk in the Heligoland Bight. January 10 – WWII: Mechelen incident...
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  • Canadian baseball player Michael Kerr (disambiguation), several people Miranda Kerr (born 1983), Australian model Nancy Kerr (born 1975), English folk...
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  • States Congress. January 11 – WWII: The British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Southampton (83) is bombed, catches fire and has to be sunk off Malta, with...
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    Earl Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 6 March 1944. Private Alex F. Miranda, a 20-year old soldier, was executed on 30 May 1944 by a 10-man firing...
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    HMS Mutine was a Doterel-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched on 20 July 1880. She became a boom defence vessel...
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    Navy HMS Calliope (1837) HMS Acheron (1838) HMS Rattler (1843) - the first warship to use screw propulsion HMS Miranda (1851) HMS Clio (1858) HMS Diamond...
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    Dave Gorman (born 1971) Tony Hancock (1924–1968) Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) Miranda Hart (born 1972) Lenny Henry (born 1958) Richard Herring (born 1967) Benny...
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    unfavourable terms. In late 1854, a squadron of three British warships led by HMS Miranda left the Baltic for the White Sea, where they shelled Kola (which was...
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    colonies in South America (to assist the Latin American patriot Francisco de Miranda) his force was instead ordered to sail for Portugal, to take part in the...
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