Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop was...
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Britain built huge numbers of brig sloops of the Cruizer class (18 guns) and the Cherokee class (10 guns). The brig rig was economical of manpower –...
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Grace The 'Little Brigs' TS Bob Allen and TS Caroline Allen Mercedes Fryderyk Chopin Brig sloop Cruizer-class brig-sloop Gun-brig Snow (ship) MacGregor...
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brig-sloop, a Napoleonic War brig-sloop class of the Royal Navy. Cruizer-class sloop, an 1850s sloop class of the Royal Navy. HMS Cruizer Cruiser This disambiguation...
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HMS Cruizer (often Cruiser) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Stephen Teague of Ipswich and launched in 1797. She was the first ship...
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6 July 1812 the British ship of the line HMS Dictator and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Calypso sank her during the Battle of Lyngør. The Battle of...
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Cruizer-class brig-sloop. She was ordered in 1812, renamed HMS Lynx later that year, and was cancelled in 1818. HMS Pandora (1813), an 18-gun Cruizer-class...
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Blooded Yankee. The second HMS Challenger (1813) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and later used as a store hulk before being sold...
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ship sloops) – 107 brig-sloops, 1797–1815 see full list of Cruizer class brig-sloops under article Cruizer-class brig-sloop. Seagull class – 13 brig-sloops...
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larger Cruizer-class brig-sloops, whose main battery was composed of 32-pounder carronades, the Seagull class (and the similar Fly-class brig-sloops designed...
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Beagle. HMS Beagle (1804), a Cruizer-class brig-sloop in service from 1804 to 1814. HMS Beagle, a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched in 1820 and converted...
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smaller than the more common Cherokee-class brig-sloops or the even larger Cruizer-class brig-sloops. The gun-brigs generally carried 12 guns, comprising...
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USS Argus (1803) (category Brigs of the United States Navy)
shipping in British home waters for a month, when the heavier British Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Pelican intercepted her. After a sharp fight during which Argus's...
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Cruizer may refer to Cruizer-class brig-sloop, a Royal Navy ship class in service 1797–1826 Cruizer-class sloop, a Royal Navy ship class in service 1852–1912...
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sloop. She was renamed HMS Basilisk in 1779 and converted to a fireship; Basilisk was sold in 1783. HMS Grasshopper (1806) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop...
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HMS Nautilus (1804) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1807. HMS Nautilus (1807) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and broken...
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the Eurasian sparrowhawk: HMS Sparrowhawk (1807) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1841. HMS Sparrowhawk (1856) was a...
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HMS Pelican (1812) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in August 1812. She is perhaps best known for her capture in August 1813 of the brig USS Argus...
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HMS Scorpion (1803) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1803 and sold in 1819. HMS Scorpion (1832) was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1832, converted...
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HMS Epervier (1812) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
HMS Epervier was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Ross at Rochester, England, and launched on 2 December 1812. USS Peacock...
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18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811. HMS Alacrity (1818) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched...
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16-gun Danish sloop captured in 1807 and retaken by the Danes in 1809. She was to be named Cassandra. HMS Alert (1813), a Cruizer-class brig-sloop, launched...
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16-gun sloop launched in 1797 and sold in 1809. She then became a whaler before she was wrecked in 1821 HMS Echo (1809) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop...
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Columbine (1806), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Wild Swan (1876) or HMS Columbine, an Osprey-class screw sloop Columbine, a racehorse in the...
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HMS Lynx (1794) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794 and sold in 1813. Lynx was to have been an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop. Originally ordered in 1812...
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HMS Reindeer (1804) (category Cruizer-class brig-sloops)
HMS Reindeer (also Rein Deer) was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Samuel & Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe and was...
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Newfoundland with the loss of all hands. HMS Scout (1804) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and sold in 1827. She then became the whaler Diana...
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purchased in 1797 and listed until 1801. HMS Royalist (1807) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop of 18 guns, built at Sandwich, Kent in 1807. She had an active...
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18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and broken up in 1811. HMS Despatch (1812) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1812 and sold...
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voyages between 1811 and 1819. HMS Nimrod (1812) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1812 and wrecked in 1827 when she was driven ashore...
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