• HMS Hazard was an 18-gun Favorite-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was one of four Favorite-class ship sloops, which were a ship-rigged and lengthened...
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  • 1800, but HMS Fisgard quickly recaptured her. HMS Hazard (1794) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794. She was sold in 1817. HMS Hazard (1837) was an 18-gun...
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  • The Hazard was an 18-gun brig of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Hazard was launched in Bayonne in January 1788, and launched in April of the...
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    HMS Hazard was a 16-gun Royal Navy Cormorant-class ship-sloop built by Josiah & Thomas Brindley at Frindsbury, Kent, and launched in 1794. She served in...
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  • Cooke (1913). Oliver Hazard Perry and the battle of Lake Erie. John Phelps, Detroit. p. 284. ISBN 9781976346385. Harris, Gardner W. (1837). The life and services...
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    War of 1812, he commanded USS Chesapeake in a single-ship action against HMS Shannon, commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his...
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    1812, he and Army Captain Nathan Towson captured the British brigs HMS Caledonia and HMS Detroit, formerly the United States brig Adams, anchored near the...
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    10, 1794, in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. His siblings included Oliver Hazard Perry, Raymond Henry Jones Perry, Sarah Wallace Perry, Anna Marie Perry...
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    The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
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    December 1807, he was appointed to the sloop HMS Hazard, of 16 guns, under Captain R. J. Neve, and HMS Niobe, of 40 guns, under Captain John Wentworth...
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    HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, Minerva-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy. This frigate was most noted for her intrusion into Nagasaki harbour in 1808...
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  • twenty ships moored in the harbour were capsized. One ship, the frigate HMS Swann, was carried over the rooftops by the tsunami. During the main shock...
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  • 2005; Phil Cummins of Geoscience Australia; Bill McGuire of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre at UCL; photographer Geoff Mackley; oceanographer Simon...
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    Robert Heriot Barclay (category 1837 deaths)
    Robert Heriot Barclay (18 September 1786 – 8 May 1837) was a British naval officer who was engaged in the Napoleonic Wars, and its North American counterpart...
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    pp. 19–21 Harris, 1837 pp. 19–20 Harris, 1837 p.25 Barnes, 1897 pp. 45–46 Cooper, 1846 pp. 15–17 Barnes, 1897 page 54 Harris, 1837 pages 36-37  One or...
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  • comprising His Majesty's Ships Sceptre, Blonde, Thetis, Freya, Cygnet, Hazard, Ringdove, and Elizabeth. British accounts of the battle generally refer...
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    the frigate HMS Thetis under Captain George Miller and the sloops HMS Hazard and HMS Cygnet, and positioned them in the channel between Guadeloupe and...
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    HMS Chanticleer was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. Chanticleer was launched on 26 July 1808. She served in European waters (mainly the...
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    November 1837 and August 1838. Captain Joseph Nias recommissioned Herald on 24 May 1838 for the East Indies and China. On 26 August 1839, Herald and HMS Pelorus...
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    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...
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  • HMS Elizabeth was a French privateer schooner that the Royal Navy captured in 1805 and took into service under her existing name. She participated in...
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    Point, consisted of the ships of the line HMS Ramillies and HMS Valiant along with the frigates HMS Acasta and HMS Orpheus. Realizing his only chance for...
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    with ground forces under his two principal subordinates, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Commodore David Porter, Rodgers' flotilla of ships on the Potomac...
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    British in 1761 and added to the RN as HMS St Anne, sold in October 1784. Notre Dame du Rosaire 64 – renamed Hazard on 24 June 1762. Hulked 1771. Vierge...
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    In late 1819 the government appointed Captain Francis Augustus Collier of HMS Liverpool to command the naval portion of a joint navy-army punitive expedition...
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    (2005) Caught Mapping: The Life and Times of New Zealand's Early Surveyors, Hazard Press, Christchurch, pp. 36–37. ISBN 1-877270-86-5 Steuart, Archibald Francis...
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    midsection up the estuary onto Town Bar, opposite Padstow, where it was a hazard to shipping. A miner named Pope was called in to remove it: he used gelignite...
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    HMS Mermaid was a 32-gun Active-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1784 and broken up in 1815. During the French Revolutionary Wars...
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    Cockchafer (1881) Starling (1882) Stork (1882) Raven (1882) Albacore class HMS Albacore HMS Mistletoe HMS Watchful Bramble class Rattler (1886) Wasp (1886) Lizard (1886)...
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    HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley, converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport...
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