HMS Research was a small ironclad warship, converted from a wooden-hulled sloop and intended as an experimental platform in which to try out new concepts...
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1859. HMS Research (1863) was an ironclad screw sloop built as HMS Trent but renamed in 1862 and launched in 1863. She was sold in 1884. HMS Research (1888)...
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published John Murray, 1869. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Wivern (ship, 1863). Ballard, G. A., Admiral (1980). The Black Battlefleet. Annapolis...
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"HMS Scorpion". Navy Historical Center (United States Navy). Retrieved 19 August 2008. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Scorpion (ship, 1863)...
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renamed HMS Research later that year, before being launched in 1863. HMS Trent (1877) was a Medina-class gunboat launched in 1877. She was renamed HMS Pembroke...
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1837. HMS Tamar (1863) was an iron screw troop ship launched in 1863. She became a base ship in Hong Kong in 1897 and was scuttled in 1941. HMS Tamar (shore...
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in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation...
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down in 1861, renamed HMS Circassian in 1862 but cancelled in 1863. HMS Enterprise (1864) was an ironclad sloop ordered as HMS Circassian, but renamed...
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a wood screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863. HMS Discovery (1874) was a wood screw storeship, formerly the civilian Bloodhound...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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recommissioned. In 1863 the Government acquired her for £4,000 when she was renamed HMS Sandfly and armed with two 12 pounder Armstrong guns. In 1863 she was principally...
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the purposes of 'magnetic research and geographical discovery'. Between September 1839 and September 1843, Ross commanded HMS Erebus on his own Antarctic...
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broken up by 1863. HMS Traveller (1884) was an armed tug and special service vessel, purchased in 1885 and sold for further service in 1920 HMS Traveller (N48)...
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a Canadian sailboat design HMS Naiad, one of several ships Napier Naiad, turboprop engine of the late 1940s USS Naiad (1863), a US Navy ship "The Naiad"...
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Chester, Pennsylvania, by Reaney, Son & Archbold; launched on 12 August 1863; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 January 1864, Comdr...
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in South Africa during her voyage to Japan. HMS Tartar was then involved in the Shimonoseki campaign of 1863-1864 and was involved in the bombardment of...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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15 November 1868, off Esashi, Hokkaido, Japan. Kaiyō Maru was ordered in 1863, and built by Cornelis Gips and Sons, at Dordrecht, Netherlands, for a sum...
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John Bythesea (section Loss of HMS Lord Clyde)
Commission to examine Canadian defences. On 30 March 1863 he commissioned the 12-gun screw-corvette HMS Archer at Woolwich. Archer served on the West Africa...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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launched in July 1863 as Mary Cook at East Albany, N.Y. It was purchased by the Union Navy in New York City on September 23rd, 1863 from James D. Stevenson;...
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HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS Excellent is itself part of...
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Greenhithe in May 1845 on two steam-powered ironclad icebreakers, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. After five left the ship, the remaining 129 men were last...
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the Pacific coast of Russia in 1858, and Makarov attended school there. In 1863 he joined the Imperial Russian Navy, where he served as a cadet aboard a...
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HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1809 at Blackwall Yard. On 11 September 1810, in a ship action...
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and Rockall Trough. The name comes from the bank's discovery in 1862 by HMS Porcupine, a British sail and paddle-wheel ship used mainly for surveying...
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museum's collection is Star of India, an 1863 iron barque. The museum maintains the MacMullen Library and Research Archives aboard the 1898 ferryboat Berkeley...
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www.duhnen.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-11-25. "HMS Otus- das U-Boot in Sassnitz auf Rügen". hms-otus.com (in German). "Technik Museum Speyer – Rheinland-Pfalz...
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Pearson, guarded the pont over the river. It was garrisoned by men from HMS Tenedos. Colonel Pearson’s column passed this wa Type of site: Fort Previous...
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Camelion-class sloop (redirect from HMS Zebra (1860))
64-pounders. Work was suspended in 1862 but subsequently restarted in May 1863 Winfield p.216 "J & G Thomson Ships". acumfaegovan.com. Archived from the...
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