HMS Pheasant was an 18-gun Merlin class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1798 for the Royal Navy at a cost of £8,087 (equivalent to £1,075,300...
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Navy have been named HMS Pheasant: HMS Pheasant (1761), a 14-gun sloop. Originally French (Faisan), captured April 1761 by HMS Albany. Foundered in the...
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on 19 October 1798 as an able seaman aboard HMS Niger, serving under Captain Philip Wodehouse. He moved with Wodehouse to the 28-gun HMS Volage and then...
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HMS Brilliant was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Brilliant was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain...
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committee which established the Melbourne Zoo) by introducing animals such as pheasants, deer and wallabies to Phillip Island. Plans for the first bridge to the...
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River. On 8 August Lynx recaptured Friendship. On 14 April 1799, she and HMS Pheasant captured the American merchant ship General Washington, declaring the...
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3 February 1807, Rear-Admiral Charles Stirling dispatched the sloop HMS Pheasant to support the capture of the Spanish stronghold of Colonia del Sacramento...
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of HMS Beagle (1831–1836), and by the work of a political economist, Thomas Robert Malthus, who, in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), noted...
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command of Lieutenant Martin White. On 20 October 1808 HMS Brilliant was in company with HMS Pheasant and Sandwich when they discovered the Revenue cutter...
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Recent resident breeding species include: the robin, finch, tit, thrush, pheasant, grey partridge, tawny owl, kestrel, sparrowhawk, great spotted woodpecker...
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