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    HMS Mermaid was a 32-gun Active-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1784 and broken up in 1815. During the French Revolutionary Wars...
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  • Navy have been named HMS Mermaid after the mermaid: HMS Mermaid (1545) was a galley captured in 1545 and listed until 1563. HMS Mermaid (1651) was a 24-gun...
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    broken up 1811 HMS Mermaid 1784 – converted to troopship in 1811, broken up 1815 HMS Cerberus 1779 – wrecked near Bermuda on 30 April 1783 HMS Fox 1780 –...
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    November 1799. HMS Mermaid (1784) (Sheerness) HMS Medusa (1785) (Plymouth) HMS Royal Sovereign (1786) (Plymouth) HMS Serpent (1789) (Plymouth) HMS Chatham (1793)...
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    HMS Mermaid was a cutter built in Howrah, India, in 1816. The British Royal Navy purchased her at Port Jackson in 1817. The Navy then used her to survey...
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    (1764) HMS Carysfort (1766) HMS Bristol (1775) HMS Polyphemus (1782) HMS Mermaid (1784) HMS Daedelus (1826) HMS Vestal (1833) HMS Salamander (1832) - one...
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    Virgin Islands 23 March 1808. HMS Ceres (1781) – broken up 1830. HMS Quebec (1781) – broken up 1830. HMS Mermaid (1784) - broken up November 1815. Winfield...
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    Winfield2008, p. 258. Marshall (1827), pp. 64–65. "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Mermaid' (1784)". Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.160...
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  • HMS Mermaid they jointly made a successful attack on the French man-o-war La Vengeance off Basseterre. In May 1799 Skynner was given command of HMS Lutine...
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  • HMS Ferret was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1784 but not completed until 1787. In 1801 the Navy sold her. She then became a whaler, making...
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  • HMS Scarborough, 1756 HMS Rose, 1757 HMS Temple, 1758 HMS Tweed, 1759 HMS Mermaid, 1761 HMS Ardent, 1764 HMS Diamond, 1774 HMS Boreas, 1774, captained...
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  • HMS Boreas was a modified Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was first commissioned in August 1775 under Captain Charles Thompson...
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    of HMS St George, the 74-gun ships HMS Bedford, HMS Captain and the French Scipion, and the smaller vessels HMS Mermaid, HMS Tartar, HMS ALerte, HMS Speedy...
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    HMS Zebra was a 16-gun (later 18-gun) Zebra-class sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 August 1780 at Gravesend. She was the second ship to bear the...
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    career over his father's objections and became a midshipman in 1784 on the guardship HMS Elizabeth. Between 1785 and 1793, Otway experienced many transfers...
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  • William Cunningham Dalyell (category 1784 births)
    an inshore squadron comprising the 38-gun HMS Jason under Captain Charles Stirling, and 32-gun HMS Mermaid under Captain James Newman-Newman, which along...
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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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  • April, Pigot, aboard Hermione and acting in company with HMS Mermaid, HMS Drake, HMS Penelope and HMS Quebec, succeeded in cutting out nine merchant ships...
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    Ruby (1652) Diamond (1652) Bonaventure 48 – previously named HMS President. Renamed HMS Bonaventure in 1660, rebuilt in 1666 and broken up for a rebuild...
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    Eliab Harvey (category British MPs 1780–1784)
    in 1776 aboard HMS Mermaid, before transferring to the flagship of the North America Station HMS Eagle. From there Harvey joined HMS Liverpool on temporary...
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    France. 22 October – HMS Association, HMS Eagle, HMS Romney and HMS Firebrand (all Royal Navy) with the loss of nearly 2,000 souls; HMS Phoenix ( Royal Navy)...
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    John Oxley (category 1784 births)
    John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley (1784 – 25 May 1828) was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of British colonisation. He served...
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  • DMP · 372 373 Melusina 1893 AJ Probably Melusine, mythological French mermaid, associated with the origins of the Lusignan dynasty DMP · 373 374 Burgundia...
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  • enlisting in the Royal Navy as a midshipman aged 14 and serving aboard HMS Victory as a lieutenant at 18. At 17 he was also listed as a founding Governor...
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    captain's servant, able seaman, midshipman, and master's mate, on H.M.S. Lenox, Aldborough, Mermaid, Rippon, Prothée, Phaeton and Ariadne. Bradley's journal is...
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  • HMS Quebec was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1816. She sailed under various captains, participating in the American Revolutionary...
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    Lancs Live. Retrieved 7 November 2023. Holmes, Wes. "'Call of the Sea' mermaid statue unveiled in Talbot Square". Blackpool Gazette. Club, Blackpool Social...
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    (Launceston, 250 men, 40 guns) Captain James Douglas (then Capt. W. Montague) (Mermaid, 250 men, 40 guns) Joined from England 22–23 May Captain Frederick Cornwall...
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    stars' distances from one another. His next commands after Bellona were Mermaid, Prince (90 guns) and – in 1757 – Essex (64 guns) under Edward Hawke in...
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    [citation needed] The city is known for its "Mermaids on Parade," a public art program launched in 2002 to place mermaid statues all over the city. Tourists can...
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