The Drake class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1741. All were ordered in 1740, and were the first...
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HMS Drake (1705 yacht) was a 2-gun yacht launched in 1705. She was rebuilt in 1727 and was sold in 1749. HMS Drake (1705 sloop) was a 14-gun sloop launched...
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HMS Drake was an 8-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1741 as the first of three Drake-class sloops constructed for convoy duty during...
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corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy Drake-class sloops (1740) Wolf-class sloops (1741) Baltimore-class sloops (1742) Merlin-class sloops - the other...
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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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The Cherokee class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting ten guns. Brig-sloops were sloops-of-war with two masts (a fore mast and a taller...
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corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy Drake-class sloops (1740) Wolf-class sloops (1741) Baltimore-class sloops (1742) Hind-class sloops - the other...
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HMS Hawk (1741) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
HMS Hawk was an eight-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, the second of three Drake class sloops constructed during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins'...
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HMS Swift (1741) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
HMS Swift was an 8-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, the last of three Drake class sloops constructed during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins'...
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The Baltimore class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1742-43. Two were ordered in 1742 and a third in...
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an asteroid HMS Hind, numerous Royal Navy ships Hind-class sloop, an 18th century Royal Navy class Mil Mi-24, a Soviet/Russian helicopter codenamed "Hind"...
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with Allin. Among other ships, he designed the sloops Hound and Trial in 1732, the Drake-class sloop in 1740; in 1741 he designed the standard 20-gun...
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screw sloop launched in 1862 and sold to China later that year. She was renamed China and was sold in 1865. HMS Africa was to have been a Drake-class cruiser...
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List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1742 Ship State Description HMS Drake Royal Navy The Drake-class sloop was wrecked at Gibraltar....
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HMS Sheldrake (1806) was a Seagull-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and sold in 1817. HMS Sheldrake (1825) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1825 that became...
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The Wolf class was a class of three sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy during 1741–43. They were ordered in 1741, 1742 and 1743 respectively...
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following sloops. HMS Swift (1721) was a sloop of the Otter class, built in 1721 and sold in 1741. HMS Swift (1741) was a sloop of the Drake class, built...
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Michel Saint Michel-class ship of the line For French Navy. 19 February Great Britain Thomas West Wapping Drake Drake-class sloop For Royal Navy. 20 February...
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HMS Wolf (1742) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
by the British Admiralty as the Wolf class. Her design was similar to that of the preceding Drake-class sloops but larger and more heavily armed. Construction...
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List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1756 Ship State Description HMS Swift Royal Navy The Drake-class sloop foundered at sea....
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'Le Fleuron' (1730)". Threedecks. Retrieved 30 November 2020. "British sloop 'Spence' (1730)". Threedecks. Retrieved 30 November 2020. "Venetian Fifth...
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HMS Delphinium (1915) (category Arabis-class sloops)
HMS Delphinium was an Arabis-class sloop launched in 1915. During World War I, Delphinium was operated by the Royal Navy as a minesweeper and escort,...
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(steam sloop) 1874 — Enterprise - (steam sloop) 1905 — Boxer - (training brigantine) 1908 — Patapsco - (tugboat) 1917 — L-8 - (United States L-class submarine)...
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designer suggested calling it the Blue Bird, but Drake Sparkman settled on the name Blue Jay, as the class badge could then simply be a letter "J", blue...
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translation of Cacafuego, a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake. HMS Spitfire (1776) was an 8-gun galley purchased in 1776 in North America...
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(Manticora album), 2002 Hyperion (Marilyn Crispell, Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake album) or the title song, 1995 Hyperion (EP), by Krallice, or the title...
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HMS Drake was a 14-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was bought from a commercial builder during the early years of the American War of Independence...
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on March 3, 1821. In March, 1825, he participated in the capture of the sloop Anna. Pendergrast was one of twenty-six sailors ordered by John D. Sloat...
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Windsurfing (section Drake's Invention)
The first Windsurfer Class World Championship regatta took place in San Diego, California in 1973. On March 27, 1968, Jim Drake, an aeronautical engineer...
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HMS Swallow (1745) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
HMS Swallow was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1745, she initially served in home waters as a convoy escort and cruiser...
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