named Adventure. A thirteenth was planned but never completed: Adventure (1594) was a 26-gun galley launched in 1594 and broken up 1645. HMS Adventure (1646)...
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HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771. She had been the merchant vessel Marquis of Rockingham, launched in 1770 at Whitby....
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HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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HMS Adventure, pennant number M23, was an Adventure-class minelaying cruiser of the Royal Navy built in the 1920s that saw service during the Second World...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1772–75: HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure)
Commander Phillip Parker King, in HMS Adventure. In the desolate waters of Tierra del Fuego Stokes, the captain of HMS Beagle, became depressed and shot...
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Incognita. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Resolution began her career...
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HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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should exist. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated...
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command of Captain Stokes. The mission was to accompany the larger ship HMS Adventure (380 tons) on a hydrographic survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego...
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sailed on Cook's first voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768–1771, and two years of provisions.[a] She joined HMS Adventure at Plymouth and the two ships departed...
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HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...
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was a voracious reader, a pursuit which sparked in him a passion for adventure. He was schooled by a governess until the age of eleven, when he began...
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with HMS Weymouth. There they loaded columns, marbles, and other antiquities to bring back to England. Aid was renamed HMS Adventure in 1821. As HMS Adventure...
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Kapitsa Farthest South South Pole HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Adventure Furneaux Weddell HMS Erebus J. C. Ross HMS Terror Crozier Southern Cross Borchgrevink...
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HMS Challenger was a Pearl-class corvette of the Royal Navy launched on 13 February 1858 at the Woolwich Dockyard. She served the flagship of the Australia...
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HMS Adventure was the name ship of her class of two scout cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century. For two years...
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Navy have borne the name Resolute. Another was planned but never completed: HMS Resolute (1805) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805. She was used as a...
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expeditions. Later, he was second-in-command to Sir John Franklin and captain of HMS Terror during the Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage,...
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Majesty (25 June 1767). In November 1771, Furneaux was given command of HMS Adventure, which accompanied James Cook (in Resolution) on his second voyage....
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1845, commanding HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. There were four medical officers: Dr. Stephen Stanley and surgeon Harry Goodsir on HMS Erebus, and Dr. John...
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Trafalgar in 1805 aboard HMS Bellerophon. During the War of 1812 against the United States, Franklin, now a lieutenant, served aboard HMS Bedford and was wounded...
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Capt. Henry H. Caldwell, USN, Commanding Destroyer USS Brownson. Cdr. H.M.S. Gimber, USN, Commanding Tanker USS Canisteo. Capt. Edward K. Walker, USN...
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lands in the northern hemisphere. Captain James Cook's ships, HMS Resolution and Adventure, crossed the Antarctic Circle on 17 January 1773, in December...
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Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections...
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Kapitsa Farthest South South Pole HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Adventure Furneaux Weddell HMS Erebus J. C. Ross HMS Terror Crozier Southern Cross Borchgrevink...
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discovery of the wrecks of the two ships in Franklin's lost expedition, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, in the 2010s. Charles Francis Hall, who searched for Franklin...
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Kapitsa Farthest South South Pole HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Adventure Furneaux Weddell HMS Erebus J. C. Ross HMS Terror Crozier Southern Cross Borchgrevink...
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ultralight trike design Adventure (ship), numerous vessels Mitsubishi Adventure or Freeca, a compact MPV sold in the Philippines HMS Adventure, several ships of...
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Expeditions Antarctic/Southern Ocean Roché Bouvet Kerguelen HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Adventure Furneaux Smith San Telmo Vostok Bellingshausen Mirny Lazarev...
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expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline of Australia aboard HMS Beagle. In 1845 he served under Sir John Franklin as First Lieutenant (the...
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