HMS Porcupine was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1777 and broken up in 1805. During her career she saw service...
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HMS Porcupine (1777) was a 24-gun post ship launched in 1777 and broken up in 1805. HMS Porcupine was a 16-gun sloop purchased in Jamaica in 1777 and...
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designed by John Williams HMS Porcupine 1777 – broken up 1805 HMS Pelican 1776 – wrecked in a hurricane near Jamaica 1781 HMS Eurydice 1781 – hulked as...
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HMS Pelican was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1777 and wrecked in 1781. Pelican cost £5,623.11.0d to build...
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her predecessor. HMS Pelican (1777) was a 24-gun sixth-rate Porcupine-class post ship launched in 1777. She foundered in 1781. HMS Pelican (1781) was...
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1764. HMS Siren (1773) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth rate launched in 1773 and wrecked in 1777. HMS Syren (1779) was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post...
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November 1794 she rescued the crew of HMS Actif which had developed leaks and was foundering. St Albans and Porcupine shared in the capture on 8 November...
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HMS Phoenix was a 44-gun fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759 and sunk in 1780 and saw service during the American War of Independence...
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HMS Hyaena (HMS Hyæna) was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post-ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1778. The French captured her in 1793, took her into service...
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HMS Amphitrite was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. She served during the American Revolution primarily in the economic...
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HMS Eurydice was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1781 and broken up in 1834. During her long career she saw service in the...
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this with a promotion to post-captain and an appointment to the 24-gun HMS Porcupine on 2 February. Knowles went on to serve in a highly active role in the...
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command of HMS Porcupine on 4 February. Knowles' replacement was Lieutenant, later Commander, Hugh Lawson. On 30 July 1780 Minorca and Porcupine engaged...
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two brigs had engaged the convoy. The 20-gun HMS Porcupine, under Captain Sir Charles Knowles, and xebec HMS Minorca, under Commander Hugh Lawson, engaged...
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HMS Milford was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Milford by Richard Chitty and launched in 1759. She was...
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HMS Lowestoffe was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Built during the latter part of the Seven Years' War, she went on to see action in the...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1868 and 1869–70: HMS Lightning and HMS Porcupine)
expeditions in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Captains: Captain May (Porcupine), Killwick Calver (1813–1892) (Lightning). Naturalists: Sir Charles Wyville...
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the 28-gun HMS Dido. Buller returned to Britain and paid her off at the end of the year, and was given command of the 24-gun HMS Porcupine in 1792. He...
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Hill, Seymour, and James Ross Island. 1845 – John Bell discovers the Porcupine River, which he descends to its confluence with the Yukon. 1846 – Candido...
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drummer for Against All Will Steven Wilson (born 1967), English musician of Porcupine Tree Steven Wilson (baseball) (born 1994), American baseball player Steven...
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Strait of Canso docked at the Martin Marietta Materials quarry at Cape Porcupine Cape Breton Highlands National Park Smelt Brook on the northern shore...
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when a gale on 25 September 1778 or so parted them. On 29 September, HMS Porcupine, Captain W. C. Finch, was on her way from Lisbon to England when she...
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Waldegrave. On 17 October 1779, Pomona, together with Lowestoffe, Charon, and Porcupine participated in the successful British attack on the Fort of San Fernandino...
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would greatly distress the enemy." The privateers Bellona, Mercury, and Porcupine arrived at Demerara on 21 February. Hornet joined them the next day. Two...
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You Do Autechre's Tri Repetae Slowdive's Pygmalion Oval's 94 Diskont Porcupine Tree's The Sky Moves Sideways Hallucinogen's Twisted 1994 in music, 1994...
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1749 he was given command of the expedition to the Pacific by the sloop Porcupine and Raven, then of one to the north-west and north-east passages in the...
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many animals to Europeans for the first time: coyote, buffalo, axolotl, porcupine, pronghorn antelope, horned lizard, bison, peccary, and the toucan. He...
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February 1781. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1238). 2 February 1781. "HMS Culloden". Hunting New England Shipwrecks. Retrieved 1 February 2021. "The...
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Capture of the "Somers" and "Ohio", a provincial marker). Yet two days later, HMS Nancy was attacked in an engagement that involved three US warships (Battle...
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