The Gleaner (or Pelter)-class gunboat was a class of six gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1854 for use in the Crimean War. The Gleaner class was designed...
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Arrow-class gunvessels. Then in mid-1854 the Royal Navy ordered six Gleaner-class gunboats followed later in the year by an order for 20 Dapper-class gunboats...
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The Dapper-class gunboat was a class of twenty gunboats built for the Royal Navy in 1854–55 for use in the Crimean War. The Dapper class was designed...
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Devon. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. HMS Gleaner Royal Navy The Gleaner-class gunboat was driven ashore on "Gonti Island". Subsequently refloated...
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class (1855) Gleaner (or Pelter) class Pelter (1854) Pincher (1854) Badger (1854) Snapper (1854) Gleaner (1854) Ruby (1854) Dapper class Lark (1855) Magpie (1855)...
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HMS Pincher (1854) was a Gleaner-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1854 and broken up by 1864. HMS Pincher (1879) was an Ant-class iron screw gunboat launched in...
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The Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat was a class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. One of the class was hulked in 1904...
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Bothnia. Following the end of that war, many of the numerous steam-driven gunboats produced as part of the Great Armament were deployed in many other locations...
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shipwrecks: 29 July 1855 Ship State Description HMS Gleaner Royal Navy Crimean War: The Gleaner-class gunboat ran aground 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off "Borko...
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to a port in California, United States. HMS Ruby Royal Navy The Gleaner-class gunboat was driven ashore at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. She was refloated...
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Zhenhai was condemned in the same year. Several British gunboats of the Dapper/Gleaner/Albacore class, which had served in the Second Opium War, were sold...
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Gleaner, later HMS Gleaner, was a ketch launched in 1802. She initially served as a light vessel and survey vessel. She served the Royal Navy as the "hired...
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Bittern class HMS Stork (1936–39) Hastings class HMS Folkestone (1938) HMS Scarborough (1938) Halcyon class HMS Franklin (1938–52) HMS Gleaner (1938–39)...
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gun each 10 Gunboats Gleaner, Pelter, Ruby, Pincher, Teazer, Badger, Snaper, Biter, Boxer, Clinker Between 2 and 3 guns each 10 Gunboats Cracker, Dapper...
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damage and only two men wounded. At the time of the capture the ketch HMS Gleaner was in sight, though it is not clear what she could have added had the...
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captain of the torpedo gunboat HMS Gleaner. Marescaux took over Gleaner and returned her to Chatham, where the worn-out gunboat was paid off. Subsequently...
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Birkenhead". Manchester Times. No. 732. Manchester. 29 March 1856. "Launch of a Gunboat". Daily News. No. 3074. London. 25 March 1856. "Naval and Military News"...
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Gladiator Gladiolus Glaisdale Glamorgan Glasgow Glasserton Glassford Glatton Gleaner Glenarm Glenearn Glengyle Glenmore Glenroy Glentham Gloaming Globe Gloire...
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Retrieved 31 March 2020. Anonymous, "Greek Transport Sunk: An Austrian Gunboat Fires on a Schooner Carrying Cretan Insurgents," New York Journal, March...
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barges and 1 flat, all loaded with coal, under tow of Gleaner ( United States), were sunk after Gleaner grounded on Twelve Pole Bar in the Ohio River then...
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Halifax. George United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Halifax. Gleaner United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore at Halifax. Hannah United...
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ship was wrecked in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all hands. HMS Gleaner Royal Navy The ketch foundered in the Bay of Biscay off Saint-Jean-de-Luz...
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2012. alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (N) "Italian destroyers Sella class". Warshipsww2.Eu. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved...
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England Expeditionary Raid: Pursued by a United States Navy flotilla, the gunboat, also referred to as CSS Segar, CSS Seger, and CSS Segur, was run aground...
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Strait: The Star-class destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Strait of Dover by Kaiserliche Marine torpedo boat destroyers. HMT Gleaner of the Sea Royal...
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Miscellany". Liverpool Mercury. No. 2598. Liverpool. 27 June 1854. "First Gunboat for the Baltic". Daily News. No. 2524. London. 22 June 1854. "The Crew...
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were rescued by Christian ( Wismar). HMS Janus Royal Navy The Clown-class gunboat was driven ashore at Shanghai, China. Orion United States The full-rigged...
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Pas-de-Calais, France. Genius Germany The schooner ran aground at Cuxhaven. Gleaner United Kingdom The schooner was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North...
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List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1868 Ship State Description Gleaner United Kingdom The 135-ton brig was thought to have hit the Seven Stones reef and sank...
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voyage from Antigua to London. She was refloated but found to be leaky. Gleaner United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and damaged at Ooster Point...
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