• been named HMS Phoenix, after the legendary phoenix bird. The earliest example of the use of HMS as an abbreviation is a reference to HMS Phoenix in 1789...
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  • Look up Phoenix, Phœnix, phoenix, phoenixes, or phœnix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Phoenix most often refers to: Phoenix (mythology), a legendary...
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    leanings. On 23 February 1718, Captain Vincent Pearse arrived at Nassau in HMS Phoenix, in an attempt to get the pirates on the island to surrender. Vane was...
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  • Parasol Rocks in Trinidad. HMS Janus (1796) was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the Dutch Argo. She was captured by HMS Phoenix in 1796, placed on harbour...
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    HMS Phoenix was a 36-gun Perseverance-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The shipbuilder George Parsons built her at Bursledon and launched her...
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    HMS Phoenix was a 44-gun fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759 and sunk in 1780 and saw service during the American War of Independence...
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    HMS Phoenix was a Parthian-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1929. She was the eighteenth warship of the Royal Navy to use the name Phoenix...
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    Tipner (section HMS Phoenix)
    connection with the RN Gunnery School (HMS Excellent) on nearby Whale Island. It closed in 2020. HMS Phoenix, the Royal Navy's fire-fighting, damage...
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    within the site are: MWS Phoenix school of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence, damage control and fire fighting HMS Phoenix South East Naval Military...
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  • number of frigates. Halsted went on to achieve particular success aboard HMS Phoenix, and was rewarded with command of a squadron. Ships under his overall...
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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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    politician. He commanded the sixth-rate HMS Phoenix at the Battle of Minorca in May 1756 as well as the third-rate HMS Dragon at the Capture of Belle Île in...
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    HMS Tauranga was a Pearl-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. The vessel was originally named Phoenix and built by J & G Thomson, Glasgow. She was launched...
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    His Majesty's Ship (redirect from HMS/M)
    needed] The first recorded use of the abbreviated form HMS was in 1789, in respect of HMS Phoenix. From 1707 to circa 1800 HBMS (for His Britannic Majesty's...
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    rejoin the French fleet of Allemand's expedition of 1805, she encountered HMS Phoenix, Captain Thomas Baker, on 10 August 1805, off Cape Finisterre, and struck...
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  • class K class HMS K1 HMS K2 HMS K3 HMS K4 HMS K5 HMS K6 HMS K7 HMS K8 HMS K9 HMS K10 HMS K11 HMS K12 HMS K13 HMS K14 HMS K15 HMS K16 HMS K17 HMS K26 L class...
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    HMS Phoenix was a Royal Navy Phoenix-class steel screw sloop. She was launched at Devonport in 1895, saw action in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and...
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    HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring to the fifth-rate HMS Nonsuch in July 1680. He returned to HMS...
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  • HMS Phoenix was built as a fireship as part of the 1693–94 programme of Fireships. After her commissioning she spent time in the English Channel then...
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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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    Pardon was brought first from Bermuda, then by Captain Vincent Pearse of HMS Phoenix, and received a mixed reception, some of those rejecting the pardon being...
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    captain of HMS Namur, based at the Nore and flying the flag of Sir Thomas Williams. He was then given command of the 36-gun frigate HMS Phoenix and after...
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    HMS Phoenix was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the mythical bird, and was the fifteenth ship of the Royal Navy...
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    (unknown date): SMS Albatross 30 May: HMS Montagu 4 Aug: Sirio 24 Aug: Princess 13 Sep: Oregon 18 Sep: HMS Phoenix 25 Sep: Columbian 22 Oct: Cromartyshire...
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  • engine from HMS Phoenix and became a survey ship. She was broken up at Malta in 1866. HMS Firefly (1877), a British Forester-class gunboat. HMS Firefly (1915)...
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  • HMS Glasgow was a Town-class cruiser commissioned in September 1937. She took part in the Fleet Air Arm raid that crippled the Italian Fleet at Taranto...
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    were divided into roles as crew to North Star and two relief ships: HMS Phoenix and HMS Talbot, which arrived at Beechey Island just as the overcrowded North...
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    HMS Phoenix 1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMS Triton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise...
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    crew of 21 abandoned ship in time and were rescued by her companion, HMS Phoenix. In August 1980, the wreck was discovered by a five-man team led by Joe...
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    fortifications and making forays far up the Hudson River along with HMS Phoenix. Wallace was knighted for his actions in helping to force the army of...
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