named HMS Boxer, named after the competitor in a boxing match. HMS Boxer (1797) was an Acute-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and sold in 1809. HMS Boxer (1812)...
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HMS Boxer was built as a Landing Ship, Tank [LST(1)] at Harland & Wolff. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service...
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31 December 1988. In October 1989, Laurence was posted to the frigate HMS Boxer, and took over as commanding officer on 30 January 1990, at age 34. Between...
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HMS Boxer was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 and expended as a target in August...
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USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. ship to bear the name of the original HMS Boxer...
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USS Boxer (CV/CVA/CVS-21, LPH-4) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, and the fifth ship to be named for HMS Boxer. She...
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HMS Boxer was a 12-gun Bold-class gun-brig built and launched in July 1812. The ship had a short service history with the British Royal Navy before the...
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attack, including the fireships HMS Wasp, HMS Falcon, HMS Comet, and HMS Rosario, and the brigs HMS Biter and HMS Boxer, and the hired ships Kent, Ann...
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The capture of HMS Boxer in 1813 was a sea fight off the coast of Maine in the War of 1812. The United States Navy brig USS Enterprise, commanded by Lieutenant...
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armoured vehicle Boxer Rebellion, a 1900 armed conflict in China Boxer movement, participants in the Boxer Rebellion Boxer Protocol HMS Boxer, nine ships of...
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cruiser. In addition, three British-built LSTs were named: HMS Boxer, HMS Bruiser and HMS Thruster; these were all larger than the U.S. design and had...
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USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, about 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Halifax...
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Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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the first tank landing ships. The first purpose-built LST design was HMS Boxer. It was a scaled down design from ideas penned by Winston Churchill. To...
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cruiser. In addition, three British-built LSTs were named: HMS Boxer, HMS Bruiser and HMS Thruster; these were all larger than the U.S. design and had...
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Ireland so much that it was forced to surrender. Enterprise (1799) versus HMS Boxer (1812) (September 5, 1813): An hour-long engagement off the coast of Maine...
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Landing Ship, Tank (redirect from HMS Ben Lomond)
even when the tank deck was flooded. The LST (2) gave up the speed of HMS Boxer, at only 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph), but carried a similar load while...
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HMS Boxer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1894. She spent several years operating with the Mediterranean...
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Beacon-class gunvessel (redirect from HMS Boxer (1868))
Fly, Lynx, Flirt, Dwarf, Beacon, Avon, Pert, Growler, Rocket, Hart, and Boxer all spent part of one or more commissions. Beacon supported British coastal...
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Thomas Adair led the Marines. Money was captain of HMS Trave, and Adair was the commanding officer of HMS Vengeur's detachment of Marines.Thornton did not...
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engagement with the British brig HMS Boxer. He was buried at Eastern Cemetery in Portland, Maine, next to the slain commander of Boxer, Samuel Blyth. His tablet...
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On 12 May 1992, Newcastle deployed with the Orient '92 group HMS Invincible, HMS Boxer, HMS Norfolk and RFA Olwen to the Far East. During this time she...
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Chatham on the Thames River and attempted to complete the ship-rigged corvette HMS Detroit at Amherstburg. Because the Americans controlled Lake Ontario and...
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ships began pounding the fort with Congreve rockets (from rocket vessel HMS Erebus) and mortar shells (from bomb vessels Terror, Volcano, Meteor, Devastation...
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enquiries from America on family members lost on Tuscania (and in the 1918 HMS Otranto sinking). The loss of the Tuscania prompted the government of Washburn...
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side. Stonington (9–12 August 1814) British vessels HMS Ramillies, HMS Pactolus, HMS Dispatch, and HMS Terror under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy bombarded...
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USS Saratoga (CV-3) HMS Boxer (F121) SM aboard USS Enterprise SM aboard USS Saratoga SM aboard USS Bunker Hill SM-1 aboard HMS Boxer SP or CXDT was the...
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Atlantic Ocean HMS Boxer HMS Cyane HMS Epervier HMS Frolic HMS Penguin HMS Dominica USS Argus USS Chesapeake USS President Chesapeake Bay Flotilla USS...
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Atlantic Ocean HMS Boxer HMS Cyane HMS Epervier HMS Frolic HMS Penguin HMS Dominica USS Argus USS Chesapeake USS President Chesapeake Bay Flotilla USS...
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of HMS Boxer during the War of 1812. On 5 September 1813, the USS Enterprise, under the command of Lieutenant William Ward Burrows II, fired upon HMS Boxer...
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