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    borne the name HMS Proserpine: HMS Proserpine (1756) was a sloop purchased in 1756 and captured by France later that year. HMS Proserpine (1757) was a fireship...
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    HMS Proserpine was a Pelorus-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. There were eleven "Third class" protected cruisers in the class, which was designed by Sir...
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  • captured her in September 1779, but HMS Proserpine recaptured her on 29 November 1779. She was broken up in 1811. HMS Sphynx (1815) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class...
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    and Pauline, sortied from Toulon harbour to chase a British frigate, HMS Proserpine, which was conducting surveillance of French movements. First sneaking...
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    HMS Proserpine was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1777 was wrecked in February 1799. Proserpine was...
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    June 1776 HMS Proserpine 1777 – wrecked off Heligoland in 1799 HMS Andromeda 1777 – capsized in the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1780 HMS Aurora 1777...
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  • French ship Proserpine, any one of several ships of the French Navy HMS Proserpine, any one of several ships of the Royal Navy USS Proserpine, a United...
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  • 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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    The British Royal Navy captured her in 1798 and commissioned her as HMS Proserpine. She never went to sea and was broken up in 1806. In January 1780, Bellone...
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    The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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    Duties, London, (8 February 1938 – August 1939) HMS Proserpine, Lyness, Orkney HMS Pyramus, Kirkwall, Orkney HMS Queen Charlotte WWII land-based gunnery school...
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  • frigate Proserpine (1785), a Hébé-class frigate captured by the Royal Navy in the action of 13 June 1796 and taken in British service as HMS Amelia French...
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  • brigantine-rigged packet launched in 1779 and captured by the British man-of-war HMS Proserpine on 23 March 1782. USS Active (1837), a schooner purchased in 1837 and...
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    2024. The New Seaman's Guide, and Coaster's Companion, Cornhill, 1809 Proserpine Frigate – Official Account of the Loss of that Ship; a letter addressed...
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    HMS Proserpine was a 32-gun Amphion-class frigate built for the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The French Navy captured her off Toulon about a...
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    whale. HMS Proserpine HMS Mermaid HMS Mercury HMS Penelope HMS Thalia The last six ships of the 1817 orders were never completed to this design: HMS Pegasus...
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  • HMS Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. The ship was wrecked in a hurricane on...
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    April 1944, Harwood became Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands (HMS Proserpine). He retired on 15 August 1945 with the rank of admiral, having been...
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  • 14-gun sloop Goéland, which HMS Penelope and HMS Proserpine captured in 1793, and which was sold in 1794. HMS Goeland (1803) was the French 16-gun brig-sloop...
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  • commanded the cruiser HMS Proserpine during that ship's coal consumption trials. In February 1899, he took charge of the protected cruiser HMS Pomone for her...
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    Simonot. In the action of 27 February 1809, she and Pauline captured HMS Proserpine. Pénélope later took part in the action of 5 November 1813. Pénélope...
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    Navy. On 27 February 1809, along Pénélope, she captured the 32-gun HMS Proserpine. In October 1809, she sailed from Toulon to escort a convoy bound for...
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    frigates Pénélope and Pauline to chase HMS Proserpine, yielding the action of 27 February 1809 in which Proserpine was captured and brought to Toulon. In...
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    arriving at St. John's on 25 October, aboard HMS Ophir, escorted by HMS Crescent, HMS Niobe, HMS Proserpine, and HMS Diadem. The ships were greeted by a flotilla...
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    Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at the former Lyness royal naval base HMS Proserpine, the museum charts the history of Orkney's involvement in World War...
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    German fleet in Scapa Flow). During the Second World War it was home to HMS Proserpine, the main base for the naval fleet based at Scapa Flow. In 2010–2011...
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    provide their captors with prize money, Bellone becoming HMS Proserpine and Résolue becoming HMS Resolue. Both ships served as harbour vessels for some...
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  • command of the 20-gun floating battery HMS Redoubt based at Woolwich. In July 1794 he took over the frigate HMS Proserpine based in Jamaica and in February...
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    protected cruiser D'Entrecasteaux just north of the Great Bitter Lake, HMS Proserpine at Port Said, the Royal Indian Marine Ship Hardinge south of Lake Timsah...
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    site for HMS Proserpine, the stone frigate ashore base at Lyness; it also served for the anti-submarine patrol forces and their depot ship, HMS Dunluce...
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