The Greyhound class was a development of the Cruizer-class sloop, and comprised two 17-gun wooden screw sloops. They were both launched in 1859 and saw...
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HMS Euphrates (1813) was laid down as Greyhound, but renamed before launching HMS Greyhound (1859) was a Greyhound-class sloop launched in 1859, reduced to harbour...
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Cruizer class was a class of six 17-gun wooden screw sloops built for the Royal Navy between 1852 and 1856. The wooden sloops of the Cruizer class were designed...
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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 Hunter class was a class of two sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1755 and 1756. Both were built by contract with commercial...
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HMS Mutine (1859) was a Greyhound-class sloop launched in 1859 and sold in 1870. HMS Mutine (1880) was a Doterel-class sloop launched in 1880 and used...
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HMS Hunter (1756) was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1756. She was captured in 1775 by an American privateer, but was recaptured in 1776 by HMS Greyhound. Hunter was declared...
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The Druid class was a class of two sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1760 and 1761. Both were built by contract with commercial...
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The Racer-class sloop also known as the Cordelia class of swift cruisers was an 11-gun wooden screw sloop class of five ships built for the Royal Navy...
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Dockyard Charybdis Pearl-class corvette For Royal Navy. 1 June United Kingdom Pembroke Dockyard Greyhound Greyhound-class sloop For Royal Navy. 2 June...
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HMS Greyhound was a modified Royal Navy Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate. She was first commissioned in October 1775 under Captain Archibald Dickson....
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HMS Racehorse (1781) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1781. She was broken up in 1799. HMS Racehorse (1806) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in February...
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New Brunswick, British North America. HMS Mutine Royal Navy The Greyhound-class sloop was driven ashore at Manzanillo, Mexico. She was later refloated...
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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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HMS Greyhound was a cutter that the British Admiralty purchased in 1780 and renamed Viper in 1781. Viper captured several French privateers in the waters...
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HMS Lightning (1806) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
was launched in 1806 as a Thais-class fireship. Like the other members of her class she was quickly converted to a sloop. She participated in the second...
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after the members of the Viperidae family: HMS Viper (1746) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1746. She was converted into a fireship in 1755 and renamed...
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Monsarrat; based on a 1927 sloop) Nairn (River-class frigate in Alistair MacLean's 1955 novel HMS Ulysses) Sirdar (S-class destroyer in Alistair MacLean's...
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with Allin. Among other ships, he designed the sloops Hound and Trial in 1732, the Drake-class sloop in 1740; in 1741 he designed the standard 20-gun...
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captured a sloop. After they sighted a brigantine, Roberts took 40 men to pursue it in the sloop, leaving Walter Kennedy in command of Rover. The sloop became...
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HMS Grimsby (U16) (category Grimsby-class sloops)
HMS Grimsby was a sloop of the British Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class. Grimsby was built in the 1930s, entering service in 1934. Serving most...
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Iskenderiya, 44 cannon frigate. Metelin, a 32 cannon sloop. Run aground and scuttled. Rahbar-i alam, 28 cannon sloop. Denyuvet?, 32 cannon. Alamat i Nusrat, 18...
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Bullfinch class: 3 ships, 1898 Fawn class: 6 ships, 1897–1899 Falcon class: 2 ships, 1899–1900 Greyhound class: 3 ships, 1900–1901 Thorn class: 3 ships...
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USS Adirondack (1862) (category Sloops of the United States Navy)
port safely. Some two hours later, a boat from the Royal Navy sloop of war HMS Greyhound pulled alongside Adirondack as she approached Nassau and delivered...
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HMS Cormorant (1794) (category Cormorant-class ship-sloops)
HMS Cormorant was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1794 at Rotherhithe. She captured four French privateers before...
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HMS Swift (1741) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
HMS Swift was an 8-gun snow-rigged sloop of the Royal Navy, the last of three Drake class sloops constructed during the Anglo-Spanish War of Jenkins'...
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commander of the fleet, he asked for, and received, orders to serve aboard Greyhound, one of the smaller vessels, commanded by John Porter, brother of David...
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1904 USS Keeling – Mahan-class destroyer, codename "Greyhound", in The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, 1955 Korund – Tango-class submarine, Eagle Trap by...
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HMS Merlin (1796) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
HMS Merlin was one of the two original Merlin-class sloops that served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. She was launched in 1796 and...
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HMS Harrier (1804) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
HMS Harrier was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804. She took part in several notable actions before she was lost in March 1809, presumed foundered...
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