the name HMS Driver: HMS Driver (1797) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1797, one of three ordered from builders in Bermuda (the others being HMS Dasher...
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HMS Driver was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She is credited with the first global circumnavigation by a steamship when she arrived...
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component Speaker driver, a transducer in a loudspeaker HMS Driver, two British Royal Navy ships Driver (rank), British army rank Driver (series), series...
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in Bermuda in 1796 (the others being HMS Dasher and HMS Driver). She was launched in 1796, and wrecked in 1797. HMS Hunter (1801) was an 18-gun brig-sloop...
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Kyle Larson (redirect from Kyle Larson (racing driver))
of the season after leading 462 of 500 laps, the highest laps led by a HMS driver in a single race. Larson's 28th career win tied him with Carl Edwards...
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examinations at Dartmouth Naval College. In 1855 he took part, as captain of HMS Driver in the Baltic Expedition, and was actively engaged at Bomarsund and Åbo...
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Carson Hocevar (category NASCAR drivers)
Corey LaJoie would fill in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy while HMS driver Chase Elliott served a one-race suspension. He finished in 36th place...
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Jun: Canadian 3 Jul: Victory 28 Jul: Petrel 2 Aug: Stag Hound 3 Aug: HMS Driver 18 Aug: Jefferson Davis 1 Oct: Infernal 5 Oct: CSS Venus 11 Oct: USS South...
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HMS Virago was a Royal Navy Driver-class wooden paddle sloop launched on 25 July 1842 from Chatham Dockyard. She was sent to the Mediterranean Station...
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stop in Cape Town to load supplies for the colony of New South Wales. HMS Driver completed the first circumnavigation by a steam ship in 1845–1847. The...
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HMS Black Prince was the third ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. She was the world's second ocean-going, iron-hulled, armoured warship,...
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Jun: Canadian 3 Jul: Victory 28 Jul: Petrel 2 Aug: Stag Hound 3 Aug: HMS Driver 18 Aug: Jefferson Davis 1 Oct: Infernal 5 Oct: CSS Venus 11 Oct: USS South...
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Richmond but was repulsed when the troops returned fire. Grey ordered HMS Driver to take reinforcements to Petone—50 of the 58th, 20 of the 96th and 30...
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Centaur. HMS Leander then came under the command of Captains William Lyall and Henry Whitby. Leander, HMS Driver under Slingsby Simpson, and HMS Cambrian...
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October 1812. Ross then served successively with his uncle on HMS Actaeon and HMS Driver. Ross participated in John's unsuccessful first Arctic voyage...
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The first steamship to circumnavigate the globe, the Royal Navy sloop HMS Driver, wrecked on Mayaguana on 3 August 1861, 14 years after the completion...
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aged 12, on board HMS Tribune and served in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1815, when only 22, he was promoted to captain, taking command of HMS Cossack in August...
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Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda (redirect from HMS Malabar (shore establishment))
12-gun sloops-of-war, ordered in 1795, and commissioned as HMS Dasher, HMS Driver and HMS Hunter. Over the next fifteen years, the Admiralty would commission...
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Bermuda design. The first three ordered from Bermudian builders—HMS Dasher, HMS Driver and HMS Hunter—were sloops of 200 tons, armed with twelve 24-pounder...
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Unknown date: Henry, Latona Other incidents 27 Jan: Segunda Rosario 5 Jul: John and William 20 Jul: John Barry 7 Nov: Creole 28 Nov: HMS Driver 1840 1842...
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transferred to the fifth-rate HMS Gloire in December 1809. He subsequently served in the sloops HMS Observateur, HMS Driver and HMS Emulous. Wallis transferred...
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Jun: Canadian 3 Jul: Victory 28 Jul: Petrel 2 Aug: Stag Hound 3 Aug: HMS Driver 18 Aug: Jefferson Davis 1 Oct: Infernal 5 Oct: CSS Venus 11 Oct: USS South...
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to visit New Zealand, HMS Driver, 20 Jan 1846 1846: First gunboat purchased by a governing authority in New Zealand 1848: HMS Acheron, a steam paddle...
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Unknown date: Henry, Latona Other incidents 27 Jan: Segunda Rosario 5 Jul: John and William 20 Jul: John Barry 7 Nov: Creole 28 Nov: HMS Driver 1840 1842...
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Unknown date: Henry, Latona Other incidents 27 Jan: Segunda Rosario 5 Jul: John and William 20 Jul: John Barry 7 Nov: Creole 28 Nov: HMS Driver 1840 1842...
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HMS Cormorant was a Driver-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy that operated from 1843 to 1853. Lyon & Winfield (2004), p. 160. Lyon, David; Winfield...
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HMS Growler was a paddle-driven Driver-class sloop, built in 1841 and broken up in 1854. In 1847 she carried liberated Africans to Sierra Leone for resettlement...
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paddle sloop HMS Driver; 1845–1847; first steamship circumnavigation. The first Galathea expedition; 1845–1847; first Danish circumnavigation. HMS Herald;...
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