The Cuckoo class was a class of twelve 4-gun schooners of the Royal Navy, built by contract in English shipyards during the Napoleonic War. They followed...
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Jackdaw, including: HMS Jackdaw (1806), a Cuckoo-class schooner sold in 1816 HMS Jackdaw (1830), a schooner wrecked in 1835 RNAS Crail (HMS Jackdaw),...
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a Cold War U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer HMS Rook (1806), a 19th-century British Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus)...
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HMS Rook (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
HMS Rook was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner, that Thomas Sutton built at Ringmore (Teignmouth) and launched in 1806. In 1808 two French privateers...
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HMS Jackdaw (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
HMS Jackdaw was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner that William Rowe built at Newcastle and launched in 1806. She had a relatively undistinguished career...
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when the Cuckoo-class schooners did engage enemy vessels, in each case the enemy force was much stronger and overwhelmed the Cuckoo-class schooners.[citation...
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HMS Landrail (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
HMS Landrail was a Cuckoo-class schooner built by Thomas Sutton at Ringmore, Teignmouth. Like all her class she carried four 12-pounder carronades and...
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HMS Cuckoo was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. She was built by James Lovewell at Great Yarmouth and...
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Virginia Cuckoo (Mineral, Virginia), a historic house in Cuckoo, Virginia Cuckoo, Tasmania, a locality in Australia HMS Cuckoo (1806), a 4-gun schooner HMS...
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HMS Quail (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
HMS Quail was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. Custance & Stone built her at Great Yarmouth and launched...
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In 1804 it ordered 18 Ballahoo-class schooners. Then a year later it ordered 12 Cuckoo-class schooners. Both classes were built in Bermuda. Winfield...
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This was paid off in 1996. HMS Rook (1806), which was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner captured by two French privateers in 1808. This article includes...
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HMS Magpie (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
Magpie was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner that William Rowe of Newcastle built and launched on 17 May 1806. Like all her class, she was armed with four...
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HMS Pigeon (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
Navy Cuckoo-class schooner. Custance & Stone built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806. Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners...
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HMS Sealark (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
HMS Sealark was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner armed with four 12-pounder carronades and manned by a crew of 20. She was built by William Wheaton...
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HMS Wagtail (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
Navy Cuckoo-class schooner launched in 1806 by James Lovewell at Great Yarmouth. Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners, she...
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name HMS Cuckoo, after the cuckoo, a family of birds: HMS Cuckoo (1806) was a 4-gun schooner launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1810. HMS Cuckoo (1837) was...
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in 1783. HMS Crane (1806) was a 4-gun Cuckoo-class schooner wrecked in 1808. HMS Crane (1809) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1809. She foundered...
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HMS Woodcock (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
Navy Cuckoo-class schooner. Crane & Holmes built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806. Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners...
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HMS Porgey (1807) (category Ballahoo-class schooners)
she was launched in 1807. Like many of her class and the related Cuckoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her...
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HMS Crane (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
HMS Crane was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. She was built by Custance & Stone at Great Yarmouth and...
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through the inexperience of her pilot. HMS Pigeon (1806) was a Cuckoo-class schooner launched in 1806 and wrecked off Margate in 1809. Pigeon: See HMS Variable (1827)...
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HMS Widgeon (1806) (category Cuckoo-class schooners)
Navy Cuckoo-class schooner built by William Wheaton at Brixham and launched in 1806. Like many of her class and the related Ballahoo-class schooners, she...
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HMS Sealark (1806) was a 4-gun Cuckoo-class schooner launched in 1806 and wrecked in 1809. HMS Sealark (1811) was the American schooner Fly, launched in 1801 or...
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HMS Tang (1807) (category Ballahoo-class schooners)
Bermuda, and she was launched in 1807. Like many of her class and the related Cuckoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early...
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entire armament of unrated vessels. For instance, the Ballahoo- and Cuckoo-class schooners were armed only with four 12-pounder carronades. Second, gunboats...
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HMS Capelin (1804) (category Ballahoo-class schooners)
Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. Like many of her class and the related Cuckoo-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early...
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4-gun Cuckoo-class schooner, commanded by Lieutenant Robert Daniel Lancaster. Captured near Gibraltar by an American privateer Syren, a schooner sporting...
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HMS Laura (1806) (category Adonis-class schooners)
pencil cedar . The Adonis-class schooners were a little larger and much better armed than the Ballahoo- and Cuckoo-class schooners that they followed. The...
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The Adonis class was a Royal Navy class of twelve 10-gun schooners built under contract in Bermuda during the Napoleonic War. The class was an attempt...
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