HMS Defiance was the last wooden line-of-battle ship launched for the Royal Navy. She never saw service as a wooden line-of-battle ship. In 1884 she became...

been named HMS Defiance. Others have borne the name whilst serving as depot ships and tenders to the establishments: English ship Defiance (1588) was...

sloop launched in 1861. She was used for harbour service from 1886, was renamed HMS Defiance II in 1904 and was probably sold in 1912. HMS Perseus (1897)...

down after HMS Warrior. In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads. HMS Bulwark and HMS Robust were...

batteries, Stopford ordered his squadron to attack at 09:00 on 24 February, HMS Defiance leading the line. Shortly after the main batteries of Stopford's ships...

to 1956 and then a shore-based school. Cornwall (see also Wellesley) Defiance (1861) from 1884 to 1931. Duncan (F80), a 1955 frigate used for training from...

success would have halted his inland march and conquest of the Aztec Empire. HMS Sapphire was a 32-gun, fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy in Newfoundland...

final eight ships were ordered in two batches on 5 March 1860 and 25 March 1861, but were either cancelled, or in the case of Circassian and Trent, completed...

of defiance, indicating that the colors will never be struck, that the ship will never surrender. On 23 September 1779, Capt. Richard Pearson of HMS Serapis...

to HMS Defence, Deniéport took advantage of a light wind to attempt to fill the gap in the line. She then found herself trapped between HMS Defiance and...

Additionally, half of his assigned ships were in disrepair or missing. When the Defiance pulled into Portsmouth, for example, the warship was missing its fore and...

the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865. Included are some types of civilian vessels, such as blockade runners...

under the cover of a dense fog, but was intercepted and seized by HMS Scarborough and HMS Junon. This left the French with only five half-empty ships in...

assistance. The incident in Nagasaki Harbour where the Royal Navy frigate HMS Phaeton demanded supplies from the harbour chief in 1808 shocked the Tokugawa...

and commissioned her in May. In October 1795, the crew of the 74-gun HMS Defiance (then commanded by Captain Sir George Horne) mutinied. Bligh, in Calcutta...

into the Sable d'Olonne, leading to the Battle of Les Sables-d'Olonne. HMS Defiance was able to anchor within half a mile of them, whilst Donegal and Caesar...

discipline amongst Benbow's captains. He had intended that the 64-gun HMS Defiance under Captain Richard Kirkby would lead the line of battle, but Kirkby...

1904 Defiance class 2-decker, 91 guns Defiance 91 (1861) – sold 1931 Bulwark class 2-deckers, 91 guns Bulwark 91 (-) – suspended almost complete 1861, broken...

HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built...

the action of 23 April 1794. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Pomone and the Endymion-class frigates were built to her lines, but with...

English naval architect best known for designing the Royal Navy warship HMS Victory, which served as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar...

Westfield was purchased by the Navy from Cornelius Vanderbilt on 22 November 1861; outfitted at Jeremiah Simonson's shipyard in Brooklyn, New York City; and...

1830s. The Napoleonic legend played a key role in collective political defiance of the Bourbon restoration monarchy in 1815–1830. People from different...

residence, the Key House. Key and Colonel John Stuart Skinner dined aboard HMS Tonnant on September 7, 1814, following the Burning of Washington in August...

is erected by the Continental Army west bank of the Hudson River. Fort Defiance is constructed by Nathanael Greene. Fort Salonga is built in Fort Salonga...

which aimed to end Westernization in Japan. This edict was made in direct defiance of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had no plans to enforce the edict. The...

1815 and accidentally burnt in 1857. Wreck broken up in 1857. HMS Defiance 1813–1817 Defiance was a 74-gun Third-rate launched in 1783 Rotherhithe. She was...

illegal slave ship led to an Alabama community of inherited trauma but also defiance". The Guardian. Wilkinson, Alissa (October 24, 2022). ""The existence of...

more than 20,000 Allied seamen and countless civilians in cold-blooded defiance of the Geneva Convention." At least 12,500 British sailors and 7,500 Australians...

Ark Royal – a rebuilding 1610 – HMS Prince Royal 1613 – Defiance – a rebuilding 1615 – Merhonour – a rebuilding 1616 – HMS Convertine – originally begun...