HMS Cracker was a later Archer-class gun brig, launched in 1804. She participated in several actions and captured two small French privateers. She was...
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launched in 1797. She was sold in 1802. HMS Cracker (1804) was a later Archer-class gun brig, launched in 1804. She participated in several actions and...
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HMS Cracker was an Acute-class gunbrig, launched in 1797. She was sold in 1802. Lieutenant Thomas Aitkinson commissioned Cracker in May 1797. On 28 August...
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HMS Daring was a 12-gun gun-brig of the Archer class of the British Royal Navy. She was launched in 1804 and served in the Channel and North Sea, capturing...
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HMS Dart was one of two sloops built to an experimental design by Sir Samuel Bentham and launched in 1796. She served the Royal Navy during the French...
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gunbrig HMS Archer for the Channel. In Archer, Fitton captured the Danish schooner Thisted. In February 1812 he took command of the gunbrig HMS Cracker for...
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HMS Merlin was launched in 1801 in South Shields as the collier Hercules. In July 1803, with the resumption of war with France, the Admiralty purchased...
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HMS Polyphemus, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 April 1782 at Sheerness. She participated in the 1801 Battle of...
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French brig Brave (1793) (redirect from HMS Insolent (1793))
April 1798. The British Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Arrogante, but renamed her HMS Insolent some four months later. She was sold in June 1818...
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HMS Naiad was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served in the Napoleonic Wars. She was built by Hall and Co. at Limehouse on the Thames, launched in...
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got off, but had to return to the Thames for repairs. On 17 December HMS Cracker provided assistance to Tigris. On 19 December Tigris had to put back...
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west coast of Africa. Often called "Captain Crackers" or "Old Captain Cracker," he is best known for his actions against the English Royal African Company...
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the aim of putting Christian values into practice. 1846: The Christmas cracker invented by London confectioner Thomas J. Smith by wrapping a bon-bon in...
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Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books. 1822 – The Graham Cracker is developed in Bound Brook, New Jersey by the Presbyterian minister Sylvester...
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Quartermaster-General, 90th Regiment, Staff Barry, David, Able Seaman, " Cracker." RN Bayly, Major Paget Unattached. Infantry Beal, Mr. John Paymaster RN...
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