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    The Merlin-class packet boat of 1838 was a Sir William Symonds (the Surveyor of the Navy) design that was approved on 2 April 1838. The vessels were to...
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    HMS Merlin was the name ship of her class of three 2-gun paddle packet boats built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a survey...
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  • HMS Medina (1840) (category Merlin-class packet boat)
    HMS Medina was a 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. The ship remained in ordinary until she was commissioned...
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  • HMS Medusa (1838) (category Merlin-class packet boat)
    HMS Medusa was one of three 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a tugboat in 1861–1862...
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  • News-Letter. No. 10500. Belfast. 13 February 1838. "Steam Packet Launch at Selby". Hull Packet. No. 2776. Hull. 16 February 1838. "Launches". Ipswich Journal...
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  • HMS Medina (1813) was a Cyrus-class post ship; she was sold in 1832. HMS Medina (1840) was a 2-gun Merlin-class paddle packet boat completed in 1840. She was...
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  •  22819. London. 23 October 1857. col D, p. 9. "Fatal Shipwrecks". The Hull Packet and East Riding Times. No. 3797. Hull. 16 October 1857. "Shipping Intelligence"...
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  • Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 20 October 2023. "Launch of Her Majesty's Packet Lizard". The Era. No. 69. London. 19 January 1840. Reports from Committees:...
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  • No. 24987. London. 20 November 1849. "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet and East Riding Times. No. 3391. Hull. 21 December 1849. "Ship News". The...
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  • London. 10 November 1841. col C, p. 6. "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet. No. 2970. Hull. 19 November 1841. "Shipwrecks of Nantucket Sound" (PDF)...
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    Hecla (1839) Hecate (1839) Merlin class – originally classed as packets Merlin (1838) Medusa (1838) Medina (1840) Stromboli class – improved Gorgon Stromboli (1839)...
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    The Tide-class tanker (formerly the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) project) is a class of four fast fleet tankers that entered service...
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    Western logotype. This livery was sometimes known as the 'fag packet' livery. When the Class 180 Adelante units were delivered, they were painted in the...
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    Astute-class, at 7,400 tonnes, carry both Tomahawk land-attack missiles and Spearfish torpedoes. In 2022, HMS Anson was the most recent Astute-class boat to...
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  • States 1926 Canada Fairchild 82 Canada 1935 24 Argentina Fairchild C-82 Packet United States 1944 223 Fairchild FC-2/51 United States 1926 180 Canada Fairchild...
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    stating that all 200 berths in First Class were filled while 33 of the 80 berths in Second Class were taken. The six boats were officially labeled: port guard;...
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    RFA Lyme Bay (category Bay-class landing ships)
    capable of handling helicopters up to the size of Chinooks, as well as Merlin helicopters and Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The well dock can carry one LCU...
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  •  2022 (2022-01-27) Bill and Toony enlist volunteers to help mail out marketing packets for the network (so Toony can do as little as possible). Featured cartoons :...
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    RFA Cardigan Bay (category Bay-class landing ships)
    capable of handling helicopters up to the size of Chinooks, as well as Merlin helicopters and Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The well dock can carry one LCU...
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    RFA Mounts Bay (category Bay-class landing ships)
    capable of handling helicopters up to the size of Chinooks, as well as Merlin helicopters and Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The well dock can carry one LCU...
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    Seabird Half Rater (category One-design sailing classes)
    cigarette packet under a street lamp in Southport. The first eight boats were built by Latham of Crossens at a cost of £34 17s 6d each. The boats were named...
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  • – present, BBC Two 1964 – present The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009) Live England Test...
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    Merlin by surprise, with reprint after reprint being produced. In 1995, the Topps Company Inc. completed its takeover of Merlin Publishing. Merlin's official...
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  • classes Classic dinghy classes List of boat types List of historical ship types List of keelboat classes designed before 1970 Olympic sailing classes...
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    climax of the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, an armed AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin transport helicopter is used in the main villain Silva's assault on Bond...
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  • January 1885. "Macduff - Fishing Boat Ashore". Aberdeen Journal. No. 7153. Aberdeen. 14 February 1885. "Beverley". Hull Packet. No. 5233. Hull. 23 January...
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  • 1930, completed 3 July 1930. MV Innisfallen, ferry for City of Cork Steam Packet Co, launched 4 March 1930, completed 14 June 1930. Celedonia, lighter for...
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    for trio of destroyers". Falmouth Packet. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2012. Historic England. "Jersey Packet (906143)". Research records (formerly...
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  • Thumbnail for Fairchild C-123 Provider
    the early 1950s, as the XC-123 and XC-123A. The only difference was the class of engines used. The XC-123 used two Pratt & Whitney R-2800-23 air-cooled...
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  • Thumbnail for List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy
    class Coquette (1871) Foam (1871) Decoy (1871) Merlin (1871) Mosquito (1871) Goshawk (1872) Swinger (1872) Ariel (1873) Zephyr (1873) Forester class Cygnet (1874)...
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