The Phoenix class was a two-ship class of 6-gun screw steel sloops built for the Royal Navy in 1895. Both ships participated in the suppression of the...
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HMS Phoenix (1895), a Phoenix-class sloop launched in 1895 and capsized 1906 in a typhoon at Hong Kong. HMS Phoenix (1889), a Pearl-class cruiser launched...
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HMS Phoenix was a Royal Navy Phoenix-class steel screw sloop, launched at Devonport in 1895. She saw action in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and later...
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Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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HMS Algerine (1895) (category Phoenix-class sloops)
HMS Algerine was a Phoenix-class steel screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Devonport in 1895, saw action in China during the Boxer Rebellion...
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HMS Algerine (1829) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1829 and sold in 1844. HMS Algerine (1857) was an Algerine-class wooden screw gunboat launched...
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HMS Phoenix was a Doterel-class sloop launched in 1879. She was wrecked off Prince Edward Island, Canada on 12 September 1882. The Doterel class was designed...
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The Doterel class was a Royal Navy class of screw-driven sloops. They were of composite construction, with wooden hulls over an iron frame. They were...
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cruisers Pearl-class cruisers Pelorus-class cruisers Phoenix-class sloops Powerful-class cruisers Redbreast-class gunboats Royal Sovereign-class battleships...
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The Bromo class were a class of large paddle-steamers (sloops) of the Royal Netherlands Navy in the Dutch East Indies. The class comprised Bromo (1874)...
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captured by HMS Phoenix in 1796, placed on harbour service from 1798 and was sold in 1811. HMS Janus (1844) was a wood paddle sloop launched in 1844...
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HMS Phoenix was a 6-gun steam paddle vessel of the Royal Navy, built in a dry dock at Chatham in 1832. She was reclassified as a second-class paddle sloop...
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Dockyard Devonport Talbot Eclipse-class cruiser 25 April United Kingdom Devonport Dockyard Devonport Phoenix Phoenix-class sloop 8 May United Kingdom Pembroke...
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Victory ship (redirect from Phoenix-class miscellaneous auxiliary)
converted to this class in 1961. Bowditch-class survey ships (AGS), 1957 conversion of 3 ships: Bowditch, Dutton, Michelson. Phoenix-class auxiliary ships...
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Steam frigate (redirect from Steam sloop)
frigates (including screw frigates) and the smaller steam corvettes, steam sloops, steam gunboats and steam schooners, were steam-powered warships that were...
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tonnes. She is owned by The Hongkong Electric Co Ltd and was licensed as a Class I, Category "A" Launch to carry 232 persons, having been licensed first...
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built by Columbia River Shipbuilding Westward Ho TN 54, a smack from the Sloop period, Faroe Islands Operation 'Westward Ho', a UK government scheme to...
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Hōshō (鳳翔, Flying Phoenix) was a screw sloop, originally built in the United Kingdom for Chōshū Domain in western Japan, and subsequently served in the...
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First-Class screw sloops to be built from a design of Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. This design would become known as the Conflict-class sloop...
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The Ardjoeno class was a ship class of paddle-steamers of the Royal Netherlands Navy . The class comprised Ardjoeno, Gedeh (1850), Amsterdam and Gedeh...
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in United Kingdom during World War I from the earlier SS ("Sea Scout") class. The main role of these craft was to escort convoys and scout or search...
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HMS Desperate (1849) (category Sloop classes)
vessel rated as a Steam Vessel First Class (SV1); however, the Admiralty, first rerated the vessels as First Class Sloops on 19 April 1845 then on the 9 May...
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HMS Tiger 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop Sphinx Magicienne class 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop Sphinx HMS Magicienne 1849...
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HMS Orestes (1781) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
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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HMS Driver (1840) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
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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on 3 February. On 19 February, 1778 she captured sloop Sally 280 Leagues off Martha's Vineyard. Phoenix was also involved in a kind of currency war. During...
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HMS Egeria (1873) (category Fantome-class sloops)
HMS Egeria was a 4-gun screw sloop of the Fantome class launched at Pembroke on 1 November 1873. She was named after Egeria, a water nymph of Roman mythology...
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HMS Enterprise (1864) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
Navy was an armoured sloop launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard. Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop of the Camelion class, she was redesigned...
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La Capricieuse was one of 13 Élan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines) built for the French Navy during the late 1930s. She served in...
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that evening. On 26 April 1775 she seized the sloops Diana and Abigail. On 2 May 1775, she seized a sloop owned by one of the Providence Paquet clan. On...
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