HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting...

been named HMS Pandora after the mythological Pandora. Another was planned, but the name was reassigned to another ship: HMS Pandora (1779), a 24-gun...

Beachy Head 1781 HMS Pandora 1779 – wrecked off the Coast of Queensland, Australia, in 1791 while carrying the surviving mutineers of HMS Bounty back to...

the Admiralty despatched HMS Pandora to apprehend the mutineers. Fourteen were captured in Tahiti and imprisoned on board Pandora, which then searched without...

HMS Tapageur was the French privateer cutter Tapageur, launched in 1778 or 1779, possibly at Dunkirk. The British captured her in 1779, while she was operating...

October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean...

11°23′S 143°59′E / 11.383°S 143.983°E / -11.383; 143.983 (HMS Pandora (1779)) HMS Porpoise  Royal Navy 17 August 1803 A sloop that ran aground on...

stories of World Heritage-listed rainforests, reefs and the tragic tale of HMS Pandora, the ship sent to capture the Bounty mutineers. The museum also explores...

HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second...

March 1779 she underwent refitting at Deptford Dockyard. Henry Trubshaw Bell, coxswain of HMS Robust was appointed as bosun on 30 August 1779, at Halifax...

losses." Popular fiction often confuses Bligh with Edward Edwards of HMS Pandora, who was sent on the Royal Navy's expedition to the South Pacific to...

at John's Ness in Ipswich in 1779 HMS Pandora a 24-gun post ship launched at Barnard's Thames Yard at Deptford in 1779 HMS Zephyr a 14-gun sloop launched...

commissioned in September 1779. After three successful cruises in which she captured a number of prizes, HMS Pandora and HMS Danae captured her in July...

command of HMS Discovery, receiving this command on 26 August 1775. When Cook was killed in a skirmish with Hawaiians on 14 February 1779, Clerke took...

famous vessels, such as HMS Victory and Yamato, and less-famous ships that are well-documented representatives of their class (HMS Bellona, Lawhill). The...

command of HMS Pandora—had sailed from England with orders to comb the Pacific for the mutineers of HMS Bounty. In March of the following year, Pandora arrived...

later patron of the natural sciences. In January 1759, he joined the 70-gun HMS Monmouth as a cadet under his uncle Captain Augustus Hervey during Hervey's...

which they perished, till the period of their penance expire. Thomas Moore (1779–1852) places the vessel in the north Atlantic in his poem Written on passing...

the Hawaiian archipelago. Captains: James Cook (1728–1779) (Resolution) and Charles Clerke (1741–1779) (Discovery) Surgeon-naturalists: William Anderson...

astronomer's assistant, initially aboard HMS Discovery, and then transferring to HMS Resolution in September 1779. The expedition explored the North Pacific...

voyages that involved careful searches for a Passage included the 1775 and 1779 voyages of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra. The journal of Francisco...

after him by Captain Edward Edwards of HMS Pandora, who had served under Ducie during his time in command of HMS Augusta. United Kingdom portal Tadeusz...

Hesiodos 1994 PV24 Hesiod (c. 700 BC), an early Greek poet, told the story of Pandora, who out of curiosity opened a jar, letting loose all evils on humanity...

– Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German explorer DMP · 54 55 Pandora – Pandora, the first human woman in Greek mythology. She was created from clay...

young Mackenzie was sent, or went accompanied by two aunts, to Montreal. By 1779 (a year before his father's death at Carleton Island), Mackenzie had a secured...

Baffin Munk I. Fyodorov HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Discovery Clerke Mackenzie Kotzebue J. Ross HMS Griper Parry HMS Hecla Lyon HMS Fury Hoppner Crozier J...

HMS Frobisher during construction but was named HMS Parker when launched in 1915. It was scrapped in 1921. The Royal Navy Hawkins-class cruiser HMS Frobisher...

Marion Bay on the east coast of Tasmania in 1789, aboard his armed brig HMS Mercury. John Henry Cox was born c. 1750, the son of a rich jewellery merchant...