• 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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  • 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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