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    HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker...
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  • as a prison hulk. HMS Howe (1815) was a 120 gun ship of the line, built in 1815 and broken up in 1854. HMS Howe (1860), launched 1860, was a 121-gun steam...
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    fired her guns in anger. Victoria's slightly enlarged sister ship was HMS Howe. Lambert, "Battleships in Transition" p122. Andrew Lambert: "Battleships...
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    HMS Howe was an Admiral-class ironclad battleship built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s. The ship was assigned to the Channel Fleet in mid-1890 and...
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    Europeans of Lord Howe Island took place on 17 February 1788, when Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, commander of the Armed Tender HMS Supply, was en route...
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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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    superstructure. This pattern was followed by most following British designs until HMS Dreadnought in 1906. They were known as the Admiral class because they were...
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    Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB RN (1 June 1800 – 25 May 1869) was a British Royal Navy officer. The city of Fremantle, Western Australia, is named...
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    HMS Windsor Castle was a triple-decker, 102-gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869, when she replaced a ship...
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    also known as the Lord Howe swamphen, Lord Howe gallinule or white gallinule, is an extinct species of rail which lived on Lord Howe Island, east of Australia...
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    related to HMS Camperdown (ship, 1885). Chesneau, Roger; Koleśnik, Eugène M.; Campbell, N.J.M. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London:...
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    HMS Daring was a 4-gun Fantome-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1874 and sold for breaking in 1889 after serving most of her career...
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    HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of...
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    HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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  • Range of British Columbia, Canada. This arm was named during the 1860 survey by HMS Plumper which charted all of the area and named the arm after Victoria...
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    paddle-gunboat HMS Coromandel—from Hong Kong to Canton (presently Guangzhou), a voyage of four days. He was transferred, on 12 June 1860, to the paddle-sloop HMS Furious...
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    amount of prize money. He then joined the first-rate HMS Queen Charlotte, flagship of Earl Howe in his role as Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron, and...
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    and British commander in chief William Howe responded by launching the New York and New Jersey campaign. Howe captured New York City in November. Washington...
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    shipbuilder: HMS Daring and HMS Decoy from John I. Thornycroft & Company, HMS Havock and HMS Hornet from Yarrows, and HMS Ferret and HMS Lynx from Laird...
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  • in London. March – Food and Drink Act, 1860 prohibits the adulteration of certain foodstuffs. 7 March – HMS Howe, the Royal Navy's last, largest and fastest...
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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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    design which had been introduced in the West only ten years earlier with HMS Rattler (1843). The ship was built by Fop Smit's in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands...
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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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    from HMS Calypso at Fort Nelson, Portsmouth, UK Two guns are on display at Howe Military Academy in Howe Indiana Two guns, originally from HMS Gibraltar...
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    HMS Empress of India was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. The ship was commissioned...
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    The fourth HMS Colossus was a Colossus class second-class British battleship, launched in 1882 and commissioned in 1886. She had a displacement of 9,520...
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    the salvage of HMS Ardent when stranded on the west coast of Africa in 1858; HMS Royal Adelaide at Devenport 6 April – 25 June 1860, HMS Terrible in the...
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  • during the Glorious First of June, when a British Fleet under Admiral Lord Howe engaged a French force several hundred miles out in the North Atlantic. The...
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    admiralty. He was then appointed to HMS Blenheim of 90 guns, and commanded her during the year in the Grand Fleet under Howe, at the relief of Gibraltar in...
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  • Zealand HMS Renown Battleships: HMS Commonwealth HMS Valiant HMS Howe Cruisers: HMS Liverpool Norfolk Destroyers: HMS Cameleon HMS Comet HMS Goldfinch HMS Maori...
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