HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of...

HMS Alert (or the variants Alerte and Alaart), while another was planned: HMS Alert (1753), an 8-gun cutter in service from 1753 to 1754. HMS Alert (1777)...

Fyodorov Akademik Tryoshnikov HMS Alert (1856) America (airship) Antarctic Snow Cruiser HMS Assistance (1850) USS Bear (1874) HMS Blossom (1806) Bowdoin (Arctic...

HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...

1811. HMS Torch (1845), launched in 1845 and sold in 1856. HMS Torch (1859), a Philomel-class gunvessel launched in 1859 and broken up in 1881. HMS Torch (1894)...

HMS Hazard's Prize (or Hazard Prize) was the French privateer Subtile, which HMS Hazard captured on 28 August 1756 and which the Royal Navy took into service...

"HMS Fawn at William Looney website". Retrieved 16 November 2008. "HMS Falcon at William Looney website". Retrieved 16 November 2008. "HMS Alert at...

HMS Orpheus was a Jason-class Royal Navy corvette that served as the flagship of the Australian squadron. Orpheus sank off the west coast of Auckland...

Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...

midshipman on HMS Weazel, which shortly joined in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland. Short periods of service on HMS Clyde and HMS Diligence followed...

in 1856 at the age of 15 and spent the first eight years of his career on the China Station, travelling out in HMS Camilla and later serving on HMS Niger...

steam vessel HMS Snake in the Mediterranean Fleet in February 1856 and, having been awarded French Legion of Honour, 5th class on 2 August 1856 and the Turkish...

years later gained his first experience of Arctic exploration as mate of HMS Terror on an expedition commanded by Captain George Back. On his return,...

Frederick William Beechey FRS (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. He was the...

HMS Plumper was part of the 1847 programme, she was ordered on the 25 of April as a steam schooner from Woolwich Dockyard with the name Pincher. However...

Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in the ships HMS Alert and HMS Discovery. (London, 1878); translated into French (Paris, 1877). Several...

magnitude with his C8 telescope as far as visual magnitude 16.0 (Magnitude Alert Program). In 1996 he saw his 1000th minor planet visually. MPC · 8297 8298...

David Porter, USN, of U.S. frigate Essex reported the capture of HM brig Alert on 13 August 1812 in these words: "He avoided the dreadful consequences...

injury that occurred on 14 October 1841 during the salvage operations on HMS Royal George. Richardson was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1846. He traveled...

Navy—again at the instigation of the Thames Police. He was a ship's boy on HMS Warspite and had further duty on Inconstant and Harlequin. He deserted twice...

patent crane. The development of housing was so rapid that HMS Hotspur, later renamed HMS Monmouth, was provided as a chapel ship for Roman Catholic services...

Decatur commanded President, he had captured the smaller British frigate HMS Macedonian in a famous action in 1812, while in command of the frigate USS United...

Cadet in HMS St Jean d'Acre, commanded by his uncle Henry Keppel, and serving in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. From September 1856 to April 1857...

for his leadership in hydrography. He is best known for being commander of HMS Challenger during the Challenger Expedition (1872–1876) under its commission...

Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (/ˈpɪəri/; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions...

carried an additional 100 tonnes which also detonated. Royal Navy ships HMS Ajax and HMS Calcutta attempted to tow the boat out of harbour and succeeded in...

as a first-class volunteer in 1837, serving until 1844 on HMS Hyacinth, HMS Clio, and HMS Volage. In 1838, he was entrusted with the command of a gunboat...

Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...

HMS Investigator was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Northwest Passage expedition. She made two voyages...

HMS Eagle, Albion and Bulwark and France had the battleship Jean Bart and aircraft carriers Arromanches and La Fayette on station. In addition, HMS Ocean...