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    HMS Herald was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1822 as HMS Termagant, commissioned in 1824 as HMS Herald...
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  • and broken up in 1817. HMS Herald (1824) was a 500-ton, 28-gun sixth-rate, launched as HMS Termagant in 1822 and renamed in 1824. She served as a survey...
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  • in 1796 and sold in 1819. HMS Termagant (1822) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1822. She was renamed HMS Herald in 1824. when she became a survey...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    was HMS Rattlesnake in 1807, stationed in the East Indies. He was promoted to post captain in 1814. After becoming commander of HMS Tamar, in 1824 he was...
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  • vessels have borne the name HMS Mastiff, named after the mastiff, a type of dog: HMS Mastiff (1797) was the mercantile Herald, launched at Hull in 1790...
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    July 1824 at Portsmouth Dockyard Fate: Renamed Herald 15 May 1824. Survey ship 1845. Sold in 1862. HMS Samarang Builder: East India Company, Cochin Ordered:...
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  • South Wales to Van Diemen's Land. HMS Courier (1776), ex-Le Coureur, a cutter captured by the Royal Navy from the French HMS Monkey (1827), ex-Courier, a converted...
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    result, Parry was given command of a new expedition in HMS Hecla, accompanied by the slower HMS Griper under Matthew Liddon. Others on the expedition were...
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    Falkland Sound. Ultimately, the British stationed four ships (HMS Hydra, HMS Hecla and HMS Herald and the primary hospital ship SS Uganda) within the box,...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    sea. On 18 February 1852, Denham was appointed captain of HMS Herald. As captain of HMS Herald, he carried out major survey work around Australia, New Caledonia...
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    HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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    required"). HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond HMS Portland HMS Somerset HMS Kent HMS Sutherland (currently completing LIFEX refit as of March 2024) HMS St Albans...
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    HMS Griper was a Bold-class gun-brig of the British Royal Navy, built in 1813 by Mark Williams and John Davidson at Hythe. She participated in the 1819...
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    died of measles during a state visit to England. He sailed in HMS Blonde in September 1824, accompanied by several naturalists and, amongst others, his...
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    54°36′47″N 5°54′10″W / 54.61306°N 5.90278°W / 54.61306; -5.90278 HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw...
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    midshipman on Parry's HMS Fury, which was accompanied by Captain Lyon's HMS Hecla. He returned to the North with Parry a second time in 1824, this time on Hecla...
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    HMS Herald and HMS Pandora, for charting the coast of the Americas. The vessels reached Cape Flattery on 24 June 1846. Cormorant towed Herald to Fort...
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    but all the British survived. Between March 1823 and May 1824 Hobson commanded the schooner HMS Lion, in which he captured several pirate vessels, earning...
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  • he was in command of the sloop HMS Rattler. He was promoted to post captain in 1796. In April 1803 he took command of HMS Topaze. In her he captured four...
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    Thomas Staines, who commanded a Royal Navy flotilla of two ships, HMS Briton and HMS Tagus, which found the island at 25°04′S 130°25′W / 25.067°S 130...
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  • Herald. "Tasmania's third oldest home, stable to notorious bushranger Martin Cash, hits market". Urban.com.au. 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2024-03-13. "HMS...
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    HMS Fury was a Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy. The ship was ordered on 5 June 1813 from the yard of Mrs Mary Ross, at Rochester, Kent...
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    the Italian states. In 1797, he distinguished himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly after that battle, Nelson...
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    Hume and Hovell expedition (category 1824 in Australia)
    expedition was a journey of exploration undertaken in eastern Australia. In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton...
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  • Herald was a 55-ton schooner that was launched on 24 January 1826 at Paihia in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. While Herald was the first sailing ship...
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    He entered the Royal Navy in 1824, and twelve years later gained his first experience of Arctic exploration as mate of HMS Terror on an expedition commanded...
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    Sheerness in England, and renamed HMS Captivity on 5 October 1824, she usually held about 480 convicts in woeful conditions. HMS Discovery became a prison hulk...
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    the Duke of Clarence, afterwards William IV. Clifford recommissioned HMS Herald on 27 May 1826 to carry the Duke of Devonshire on an embassy to Russia...
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