Sphinx-class sailing sixth rates were a series of ten post ships built to a 1773 design by John Williams. Although smaller than true frigates, post ships...

example of a post ship, see HMS Camilla. She was one of ten Sphinx-class post ships built during the 1770s. The United States Navy termed ships of this type...

HMS Vestal was a 20-gun sixth-rate Sphinx-class post ship of the Royal Navy. Commissioned by Captain James Shirley, Vestal escorted a convoy to Newfoundland...

HMS Galatea was a 20-gun Sphinx-class sixth-rate post-ship of the Royal Navy. She was designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes in Deptford Dockyard...

HMS Camilla was a Royal Navy 20-gun Sphinx-class post ship. Camilla was built in Chatham Dockyard to a design by John Williams and was launched in 1776...

HMS Ariel was a 20-gun Sphinx-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. The French captured her in 1779, and she served during the American Revolutionary...

Six ships (and one shore establishment) of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sphinx or HMS Sphynx, after the mythical creature, the Sphinx: HMS Sphinx (1748)...

Navy, designed the class as a development of his earlier design (1773) for the 20-gun Sphinx class. The 1776 design enlarged the ship, which permitted the...

At least six ships of the Royal Navy, have been named HMS Daphne after the naiad Daphne: HMS Daphne (1776), was a Sphinx-class post ship that the French...

Experiment-class ship (1772) a series of 50-gun ships Sphinx-class post ship (1773) a series of ten 20-gun post ships HMS Royal Sovereign (1774) 100-gun ship of the...

This is a list of frigate classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom (and the individual ships composed within those classes) in chronological order...

August by the French Navy's Junon. HMS Ariel ( Royal Navy): The Sphinx-class post ship was captured on 10 September by the French Navy's Amazone. Astrée...

Captain Philip Charles Durham, with Phaeton, retook the 20-gun Sphinx-class post ship Daphne, which the French had captured almost exactly three years...

Seaford – 2 ships, with 20 × 9-pdrs. 1757. Rose (1757) – sunk as blockship 1779. Glasgow (1757) – burnt by accident 1779. Sphinx class – 10 ships, with 20...

Porcupine-class post ship. The class was designed by Surveyor of the Navy John Williams in 1776; it was an enlarged version of the Sphinx class, also designed...

The Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele is a Classic Greek funerary stela dating to the last quarter of the 5th century B.C. It is part of the Cesnola Collection...

(1770) 50-gun ship of the line launched at Harwich HMS Berwick (1775) 74-gun ship of the line launched at Portsmouth HMS Sphinx (1775) 20-gun ship HMS Cygnet...

(ARL-28) was one of 39 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named for Typhon, the son...

HMS Narcissus was a Sphinx-class 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1781. Most notably in 1782, while she was under the command...

its ships, which are known for their highly individual, boutique design. The rest of its fleet—the S.S. São Gabriel in Portugal, the S.S. Sphinx and River...

The list of shipwrecks in 1796 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded or otherwise lost during 1796. Joseph, Peter (2012). So Very Foolish...

USS Coronis (ARL-10) was one of 39 Achelous-class repair ship landing craft built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Coronis (one...

HMS Eurydice was a 24-gun Porcupine-class post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1781 and broken up in 1834. During her long career she saw service in the...

finish the ships. Already before World War I ACL had started to build ocean liners. In March 1914 it had launched the ocean liner Sphinx (151 m, 11,375...

LST-511-class tank landing ship launched by the U.S. Navy during the final months of World War II. Chimon served as a transport and stores ship for the...

The list of ship launches in 1777 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1777. "British sloop 'Swift' (1777)". Threedecks. Retrieved...

broadsides but never anchored herself and passed out of the action, while the Sphinx also failed to anchor, and only contributed minimally to the action. Suffren...

The list of ship launches in 1776 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1776. "British sloop 'Cygnet' (1776)". Threedecks. Retrieved...

The German destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maass was the lead ship of her class of four destroyers built for the German Navy (initially called the Reichsmarine...

LST-542-class tank landing ship launched by the U.S. Navy during the final months of World War II. Proton served as a troop ship, a cargo ship and as an...