Navy have been named HMS Nimble. HMS Nimble (1778) was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men. HMS Nimble (1781) was a purchased...
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348 Africans when captured by HMS Nimble 10 November 1833. Josefa, Spanish schooner carrying 206 slaves when captured by HMS Monkey 7 April 1829. Jesus of...
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Look up nimble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nimble may refer to: HMS Nimble, the name of several Royal Navy vessels RMAS Nimble (A222), a British...
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HMS Nimble was a new cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1813. The Navy sold her in 1816. Lieutenant Peter Williams commissioned Nimble on 5 April...
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HMS Nimble was a Royal Navy 5-gun schooner-of-war. She was employed in anti-slave trade patrol from 1826 until 1834, when she was wrecked on a reef with...
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HMS Nimble was a wooden Philomel-class gunvessel of the Royal Navy. She was equipped with 5 guns. She became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve at...
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Duff in HMS Stately disrupts discipline, while Thomas of HMS Thames is not ready for battle. Tom Pullings is the full captain of the flagship HMS Bellona...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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HMS Nimble was the name vessel of a two-vessel class of cutters built at Cowes in 1811 for the Royal Navy. Lieutenant John Reynolds commissioned her in...
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battle with a British anti-slavery patrol ship, HMS Nimble, stationed on the northern approaches to Cuba. Nimble also ran onto the reef, but was refloated and...
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and Aubrey is no longer a commodore. Captain Aubrey is left in command of HMS Bellona. He sails her on blockade duty around Brest, France, under an admiral...
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of marque HMS Diane - 32-gun French-built frigate bought into British service after capture HMS Briseis - passed in port at Lisbon HMS Nimble - a two-hundred...
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slave-runner carrying 500 African captives, and the Royal Navy warship HMS Nimble ran onto the Florida Reef during a running gun battle. Wreckers went to...
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Edward Pellew aboard HMS Indefatigable. From May 1804 he served in the West Indies, returning as Sir Edward Pellew's flag captain on HMS Caledonia eight years...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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HMS Castor, launched and commissioned in 1832, was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy and the third naval ship to bear the name. Castor was...
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detachment of Sea Fencibles and, accompanied by a boat from the cutter HMS Nimble, set off, unsuccessfully, to capture the privateer. On 11 March of the...
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Goldsmith (nephew of the famous poet Oliver Goldsmith) aboard the cutter HMS Nimble in 1824. (After several unsuccessful attempts Lt Goldsmith and a number...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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Wolf, but also includes the post ship HMS Daphne, and the cutters HMS Expedition, HMS Sprightly, HMS Nimble, and HMS Flying Fish. Citations Edler, p. 96...
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famous poet Oliver Goldsmith), and 10 or 12 of his crew of the cutter HMS Nimble, armed with bars and levers, rocked the huge granite boulder until it...
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HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship...
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replaced Bartholomew, off Portugal. Williams assumed command of the cutter HMS Nimble on 5 April 1813. Lieutenant Edward Shaughnessy (or O'Shaughnessy) replaced...
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the poet Oliver Goldsmith), and ten or twelve of his crew of the cutter HMS Nimble, armed with bars and levers rocked the huge granite boulder until it fell...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard. Belleisle was converted to serve...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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vessels have been named Nimble: Nimble (1786 ship) was built in Folkestone in 1781, possibly under another name. In 1786 Nimble was almost rebuilt and...
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Asturias 29 May: HMS Fawn Jun: HMS Belleisle Jul: USS General Sherman 12 Aug: HMS Scout 1 Oct: HMS Nimble 13 Dec: HMS Tamar 14 Dec: HMS Orontes ← 1865 1867...
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