named HMS Grasshopper, named for the grasshopper, a common type of herbivorous insect. HMS Grasshopper (1776) was a 14-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS Basilisk...
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Judy (dog) (section HMS Grasshopper)
Judy (1936 – 17 February 1950) was a ship's dog aboard HMS Gnat and Grasshopper stationed on the Yangtze before and during World War II. She proved able...
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HMS Grasshopper was a Dragonfly-class river gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. After completion was sent to the China station where she...
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(short story), 1892, by Anton Chekhov HMS Grasshopper, eight vessels and one shore station of the Royal Navy Grasshopper (robot weather station), developed...
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HMS Jupiter was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. As completed, Jupiter had a main gun armament of six 4.7-inch (119 mm) QF Mark XII guns in three...
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HMS Grasshopper was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop built at Portsmouth Dockyard by Nicholas Diddams and launched in 1813. She was the second...
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HMS Grasshopper was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806, captured several vessels, and took part in two notable actions...
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fireship, previously the 14-gun sloop HMS Grasshopper. She was renamed HMS Basilisk in 1779 and was sold in 1783. HMS Basilisk (1801) was a 12-gun Bloodhound-class...
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Hornblower, captain of HMS Hotspur, and Maria Mason are married. Admiral Pellew arrives and gives Hornblower his next mission: HMS Grasshopper, commanded by old...
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officers, Commander Denis 'Lofty' Sprague, captain of HMS Thames, and Lieutenant Patrick Griffiths of HMS Rorqual, and French warrant officer mechanic Yves...
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to 1817 he operated in and around Newfoundland. In 1810 he was captain of HMS Adonis. In autumn 1810 he conducted an expedition to the River of Exploits...
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HMS Grasshopper was a Beagle-class (or G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagles were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn...
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rising to the rank of lieutenant. In 1811 he was serving on the Brig HMS Grasshopper, which shipwrecked Christmas Eve off the coast of the Dutch coast....
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12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
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HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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HMS Maori was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. She served with the United Kingdom Mediterranean Fleet...
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was part of the China Station until 1940, when she was relieved by HMS Grasshopper. She then transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet's Inshore Squadron...
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for Netherlands East Indies Engagements, 23 January – 27 February 1942. HMS Argus Some English language sources rely on Roscoe which incorrectly attributes...
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HMS Wellesley was a 74-gun third rate, named after the Duke of Wellington, and launched in 1815. She captured Karachi for the British, and participated...
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Judy was a ship's dog on both HMS Gnat and HMS Grasshopper....
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12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
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12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
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12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
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the destroyer Kortenaer, which promptly sank. The gunnery duel continued: HMS Exeter was struck in her boiler room, which cut her speed to 11 knots (20 km/h;...
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12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
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Judy was a ship's dog who had survived the sinking of the gunboat HMS Grasshopper on 14 February 1942, and spent more than two years in a PoW camp at...
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of HMS Grasshopper (18) and after a few months commissioned in the rank of lieutenant in August 1819. The next October, he joined the frigate HMS Phaeton...
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design competition for its first postwar destroyers. One of the designs, HMS Ambuscade, built by Thornycroft, impressed Dutch officials. The Netherlands...
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12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
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