The Musquito class was a Royal Navy class of two 4-gun floating batteries built to a design by Admiral Sir Sidney Smith specifically to serve with his...
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HMS Sandfly was a Musquito-class floating battery of the Royal Navy. The two-vessel class was intended to defend the Îles Saint-Marcouf (Marcou) situated...
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hoys Badger, Hawke, and Shark, the fireship Nancy, and the Musquito-class floating battery Sandfly, which he had had purpose-built for the defence of...
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The Firm class was a Royal Navy class of two 16-gun floating batteries built to a design by Sir John Henslow, who took as his model the flat-bottomed...
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gunvessels, among them the hoys Badger, Serpent and Hawk, and the Musquito-class floating battery Sandfly. Conditions on the islands were harsh, and there was...
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use of floating batteries during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the two-vessel Musquito and Firm-class floating batteries, and some...
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HMS Mosquito (redirect from HMS Musquito)
Musquito was the name vessel for the two-vessel Musquito class of floating batteries; she was launched in 1794 but wrecked in June 1795. HMS Musquito (1798)...
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among them the hoys Hawke, Badger, Serpent, and Shark, and the Musquito-class floating battery Sandfly. Hawke was fitted between October 1795 and January...
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HMS Sandfly (1794) was a 4-gun Musquito-class floating battery launched in 1794. She was broken up in 1803. HMS Sandfly (1855) was an Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat...
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Shark and Hawke, and the Musquito-class floating battery Sandfly. Subsequently, material from Serpent was used to build a battery. Serpent was paid off in...
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several vessels of the Musquito class and Firm class. These carried either naval long guns or carronades. Floating batteries were used by the French...
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(1794)". Threedecks. Retrieved 6 January 2022. "British Other Vessels floating battery 'Spanker' (1794)". Threedecks. Retrieved 6 January 2022. "Venetian...
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Gazelle-class light cruiser, launched 22 April 1902, commissioned 12 May 1903, recommissioned 27 May 1940 as a floating anti-aircraft battery, scrapped...
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HMS Cruizer (1797) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
between the squadron and the Danes, who marshaled the Crown Battery, floating batteries, three praams of 20 guns each, some 30 gunboats, and block ships...
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HMS Ringdove (1806) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
batteries opened fire on the British force, one shot striking Ringdove, then off Pointe Lizard. Dowers landed a shore party that stormed the battery,...
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HMS Lutine (1779) (category Magicienne-class frigates)
to a bomb vessel that fired mortars at the besieging French artillery batteries, which were under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. When they abandoned...
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HMS Mutine (1806) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
inshore squadron off the entrance to Copenhagen's harbour. Several floating batteries and block-ships added their support to the Danish flotilla by also...
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HMS Curlew (1812) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
Jamesina, in Hong Kong, as a floating warehouse for opium. It is not clear when and what her final disposition was. A first-class share of the prize money...
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HMS Eclipse (1807) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
also mounted cannon on a Brazilian ship in the harbour to create a floating battery, under a British officer, to defend a bridge, should the French advance...
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Séduisant-class ship of the line ran aground and was captured on 1 August by the Royal Navy's HMS Alexander. She was set afire and burnt. HMS Musquito ( Royal...
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