borne the name HMS Proserpine: HMS Proserpine (1756) was a sloop purchased in 1756 and captured by France later that year. HMS Proserpine (1757) was a fireship...
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HMS Proserpine was a Pelorus-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. There were eleven "Third class" protected cruisers in the class, which was designed by Sir...
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HMS Proserpine was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1777 was wrecked in February 1799. Proserpine was...
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French ship Proserpine, any one of several ships of the French Navy HMS Proserpine, any one of several ships of the Royal Navy USS Proserpine, a United...
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captured her in September 1779, but HMS Proserpine recaptured her on 29 November 1779. She was broken up in 1811. HMS Sphynx (1815) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class...
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brigantine-rigged packet launched in 1779 and captured by the British man-of-war HMS Proserpine on 23 March 1782. USS Active (1837), a schooner purchased in 1837 and...
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June 1776 HMS Proserpine 1777 – wrecked off Heligoland in 1799 HMS Andromeda 1777 – capsized in the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1780 HMS Aurora 1777...
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HMS Proserpine was a 32-gun Amphion-class frigate built for the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The French Navy captured her off Toulon about a...
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2024. The New Seaman's Guide, and Coaster's Companion, Cornhill, 1809 Proserpine Frigate – Official Account of the Loss of that Ship; a letter addressed...
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HMS Orestes was an 18-gun Dutch-built brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally built as the privateer Mars, which the British captured in 1781...
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and Pauline, sortied from Toulon harbour to chase a British frigate, HMS Proserpine, which was conducting surveillance of French movements. First sneaking...
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French frigate Bellone (1778) (redirect from HMS Proserpine (1798))
The British Royal Navy captured her in 1798 and commissioned her as HMS Proserpine. She never went to sea and was broken up in 1806. In January 1780, Bellone...
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April 1944, Harwood became Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands (HMS Proserpine). He retired on 15 August 1945 with the rank of admiral, having been...
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whale. HMS Proserpine HMS Mermaid HMS Mercury HMS Penelope HMS Thalia The last six ships of the 1817 orders were never completed to this design: HMS Pegasus...
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Duties, London, (8 February 1938 – August 1939) HMS Proserpine, Lyness, Orkney HMS Pyramus, Kirkwall, Orkney HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land-based gunnery school...
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Simonot. In the action of 27 February 1809, she and Pauline captured HMS Proserpine. Pénélope later took part in the action of 5 November 1813. Pénélope...
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Navy. On 27 February 1809, along Pénélope, she captured the 32-gun HMS Proserpine. In October 1809, she sailed from Toulon to escort a convoy bound for...
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14-gun sloop Goéland, which HMS Penelope and HMS Proserpine captured in 1793, and which was sold in 1794. HMS Goeland (1803) was the French 16-gun brig-sloop...
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1809 – Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine. 1812 – Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag...
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HMS Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. The ship was wrecked in a hurricane on...
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German fleet in Scapa Flow). During the Second World War it was home to HMS Proserpine, the main base for the naval fleet based at Scapa Flow. In 2010–2011...
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The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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third-rate HMS Colossus, the sixth-rate HMS Proserpine, the third-rate HMS America, the third-rate HMS Egmont and then the second-rate HMS Princess Royal...
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arriving at St. John's on 25 October, aboard HMS Ophir, escorted by HMS Crescent, HMS Niobe, HMS Proserpine, and HMS Diadem. The ships were greeted by a flotilla...
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Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the former Lyness royal naval base HMS Proserpine, the museum charts the history of Orkney's involvement in World War...
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site for HMS Proserpine, the stone frigate ashore base at Lyness; it also served for the anti-submarine patrol forces and their depot ship, HMS Dunluce...
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protected cruiser D'Entrecasteaux just north of the Great Bitter Lake, HMS Proserpine at Port Said, the Royal Indian Marine Ship Hardinge south of Lake Timsah...
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frigate Proserpine (1785), a Hébé-class frigate captured by the Royal Navy in the action of 13 June 1796 and taken in British service as HMS Amelia French...
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Navy have borne the name HMS Amsterdam, after the city of Amsterdam: HMS Amsterdam (1804) was the Dutch frigate Proserpine, launched in 1801, that the...
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Council. On 1 February 1799 Grenville and a party were travelling on HMS Proserpine when she was wrecked near Scharhörn off the Elbe. She was trying to...
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