The Camelion class was a class of screw-driven sloops of wood construction, designed by Isaac Watts and operated by the Royal Navy. Eight ships of the...
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HMS Reindeer (1866) (category Camelion-class sloops)
HMS Reindeer was a Royal Navy wooden-hulled screw-driven sloop of the Camelion class, in service from 1866 to 1876. In 1868 she claimed Caroline Island...
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Inglefield’s 1854 Arctic expedition. HMS Diligence was a 17-gun Camelion-class sloop laid down in 1861 but cancelled on 12 December 1863. HMS Diligence (1915)...
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Conway-class post ship launched in 1817. She was used as a church ship from 1826 and sold at Liverpool in 1872. HMS Tees was to be a Camelion-class sloop ordered...
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a sloop of the Camelion class. She was scrapped in 1873. HMS Zebra (1895), launched on 3 December 1895, was the lead ship of her class of destroyers....
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HMS Enterprise (1864) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
Navy was an armoured sloop launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard. Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop of the Camelion class, she was redesigned...
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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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1818 and was broken up in 1850. HMS Perseus (1861) was a Camelion-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1861. She was used for harbour service from 1886...
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was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1816 and sold in 1849. HMS Camelion (1860) was a Camelion-class screw sloop launched in 1860 and sold...
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private owner. 23 February United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Camelion Camelion-class sloop For Royal Navy. 23 February United Kingdom William Pile Jr...
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Dockyard Pandora Philomel-class gunvessel For Royal Navy. 9 February United Kingdom Portsmouth Dockyard Chanticleer Camelion-class sloop For Royal Navy. 9 February...
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HMS Chanticleer (1861) was a Camelion-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1861 and sold in 1878. HMS Chanticleer (U05) was a modified Black Swan-class sloop launched in...
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remained on the Navy lists until 1856. HMS Reindeer (1866) was a Camelion-class wood screw sloop launched in 1866. Work had been suspended in 1865 but was subsequently...
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October 1889 Ship State Description HMS Enterprise Royal Navy The Camelion-class sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Aberffraw, Anglesey. She was being...
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States. HMS Research Royal Navy The Camelion-class sloop ran aground on the wreck of the steamship City of New York ( United...
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Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1808. She was converted to a packet brig in 1824 and was sold in 1835. HMS Rinaldo (1860) was a Camelion-class wooden...
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capsized. HMS Perseus Royal Navy Bombardment of Kagoshima: The Camelion-class sloop ran aground at Kagoshima, Empire of Japan. Sir George Grey United...
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Co. 15 August United Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Pembroke Research Camelion-class sloop For Royal Navy. 15 August United Kingdom Messrs. Day & Co. Northam...
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K. Macdonald. 29 March United Kingdom Chatham Dockyard Reindeer Camelion-class sloop For Royal Navy. 31 March United Kingdom Messrs. W. Denny & Bros...
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from Swansea, Glamorgan to Cardigan. HMS Pelican Royal Navy The Camelion-class sloop ran aground in the Mediterranean Sea. Subsequently refloated, repaired...
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finally being sold in 1865. HMS Pelican (1860) was a wooden Camelion-class screw sloop launched in 1860 and sold into civilian service in 1867 and renamed...
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from Leith, Lothian to Venice, Italy. HMS Rattler Royal Navy The Camelion-class sloop was wrecked on a reef off northern Hokkaido, Japan. Her crew survived...
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Arkansas with the loss of 20 lives. HMS Research Royal Navy The Camelion-class sloop ran aground at Harrington Point, County Waterford. She was refloated...
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HMS Research (1863) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
ships as the Prince Consort-class ironclads. The 17-gun sloop Trent had been ordered in November 1860 as one of the Camelion-class. She was selected for conversion...
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Lancashire to Buenos Aires, Argentina. HMS Perseus Royal Navy The Camelion-class sloop ran aground on an uncharted reef east of Sebuyau, Netherlands East...
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Dockyard Rattler Camelion-class sloop For Royal Navy. 20 March United States Philadelphia Navy Yard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Juniata Sloop-of-war For United...
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Britannia in December 1863. As a sub-lieutenant, he served on the screw sloop HMS Camelion in the Pacific. Promoted to lieutenant in 1874, he was then with the...
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HMS Falmouth (L34) (category Shoreham-class sloops)
HMS Falmouth was a Shoreham-class sloop of the British Royal Navy. Falmouth was built at Devonport Dockyard in 1931–1932. The ship was used as a despatch...
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HMS Cameleon (1795) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
HMS Cameleon (or Camelion) was a Royal Navy Diligence-class brig-sloop, launched in 1795. She was built of fir (pitch pine), which allowed for rapid construction...
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HMS Mediator (1782) (redirect from HMS Camel (1788))
September she was anchored in Algoa Bay with the 16-gun sloop HMS Rattlesnake. Both captains, Lee of Camel and Samuel Gooch of Rattlesnake, were onshore with...
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