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 Unicorn was a 20-gun sixth-rate Sphinx-class post ship of the Royal Navy. Serving in the American Revolutionary War, she was captured by the French...

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

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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...

October 2021. "British Sixth Rate post ship 'Myrmidon' (1781)". Threedecks. Retrieved 5 October 2021. "Spanish Fourth Rate ship of the line 'San Felipe Apóstol'...

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...

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...

LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Later she was converted to Benewah-class barracks ship as USS Presque...

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

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