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    The Hermes class were a group of four vessels designed by John Edye of the Surveyor's Department to specifications outlined by Captain William Symonds...
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  • Look up Hermes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hermes is a god in Greek mythology. Hermes may also refer to: Hermes Trismegistus, legendary Hellenistic...
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  • named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, while another was planned: HMS Hermes (1796) was a 12-gun brig-sloop, originally...
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  • The Hermes class were a series of four 20-gun ships, launched between 1811 and 1816. Two pairs of ships were produced, to slightly different designs –...
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    Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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  • The Cyrus-class sixth rates of the Royal Navy were a series of sixteen-flush decked sloops of war built to an 1812 design by Sir William Rule, the Surveyor...
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  • Board of Customs. 26 June  United Kingdom Portsmouth Dockyard Hermes Hermes-class sloop For Royal Navy. 27 June  United Kingdom Garland & Horsburgh Dundee...
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  • Flower-class corvette Castle-class corvette 24-class sloop Bridgewater-class sloop[page needed] Hastings-class sloop Banff-class sloop Shoreham-class sloop[page needed]...
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    modified to take more modern aircraft and these ships became the Majestic-class. Not completed until after the end of the war, most ended up purchased by...
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    HMS Hermes was a Hermes-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard. Initially she was used as apackey vessel until...
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  • Hellenic Navy. 23 August  United Kingdom Sheerness Dockyard Acheron Hermes-class sloop For Royal Navy. 25 August  United Kingdom Messrs. Youngs South Shields...
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  • "(untitled)". Caledonian Mercury. No. 18355. Edinburgh. 9 December 1837. "American sloop 'Cyane' (1837)". Threedecks. Retrieved 13 October 2023. "Launch of an Iron...
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  • HMS Hermes was a 20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate flush-decked sloop-of-war built in Milford Dockyard to the lines of the ex-French Bonne Citoyenne. She...
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    Friponne-class sloop planned for conversion but not completed Conquerante: Valliante-class sloop planned for conversion but not completed Joffre class Joffre:...
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  • Combatant-class sixth-rate sloop. She was launched at Hull in 1804, became an army depot ship in 1810, and was sold in 1817. HMS Valorous (1816) was a Hermes-class...
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  • HMS Volcano (1836) (category Sloop classes)
    HMS Volcano was a Hermes-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was launched in 1836. Her first few commissions...
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    ships. HMS Hermes and two of her sisters were 22,000 ton fleet carriers converted to "commando carriers" only able to operate helicopters. Hermes was later...
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  • HMS Megaera (1837) (category Paddle sloops of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Megaera was a Hermes-class wooden paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Sheerness Dockyard. She was launched in 1837 and served two commissions...
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    HMIS Indus (U67) (category Grimsby-class sloops of the Royal Indian Navy)
    HMIS Indus was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Indian Navy launched in 1934 and sunk during the Second World War in 1942. She was a slightly enlarged...
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    La Capricieuse was one of 13 Élan-class minesweeping sloops (Avisos dragueur de mines) built for the French Navy during the late 1930s. She served in...
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    HMS Tiger 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop Sphinx Magicienne class 1849 – second class, enlarged version of sloop Sphinx HMS Magicienne 1849...
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    commissioning of ships such as Hōshō (1922), HMS Hermes (1924), Béarn (1927), and the Lexington-class aircraft carriers (1927). Most early aircraft carriers...
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  • to 1942 Belfort: Converted Arras-class aviso in service from 1939 to 1946 Diligente: Converted Friponne-class sloop in service during 1940 Paul Goffeny:...
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  • Thumbnail for Salisbury-class frigate
    Salisbury and a second diesel, HMS Leopard (T41) as a suitable A/S frigate or sloop prototype could not proceed at the time. By 1947 the legend (i.e: the complete...
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    HMS Myrmidon (1813) (category Hermes-class post ships)
    HMS Myrmidon was a 20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate post ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1810s. She was commissioned in 1813 and was in the Mediterranean...
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    arrived only after Hermes was sunk. Two Fulmars and four Vals were destroyed. Nagumo disengaged after recovering the strike on Hermes. The Japanese inflicted...
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    USS Wasp (1814) (category Sloops of the United States Navy)
    USS Wasp was a sloop-of-war that served in the United States Navy in 1814 during the War of 1812. She was the fifth United States Navy ship to carry that...
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    Light aircraft carrier (category Light aircraft carrier classes)
    Centaur class HMS Centaur HMS Albion HMS Bulwark HMS Hermes Invincible class HMS Invincible HMS Illustrious HMS Ark Royal United States Independence class USS Bataan...
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    HMS Sandwich (L12) (category Bridgewater-class sloops)
    HMS Sandwich (L12) was a Bridgewater-class sloop built by Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle. After a decade of peacetime service on the China Station, she escorted...
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    platform dock ships Fearless Intrepid Commando carriers Albion Bulwark Hermes Commando carriers Ocean Theseus HMS Misoa (F117) HMS Tasajera (F125) HMS Bachaquero (F110)...
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