• HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to...
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  • the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pickle: The first HMS Pickle (1800) was a 10-gun topsail schooner purchased in 1800, originally named Sting, and renamed...
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    USRC Morris (1831) O. H. Brown Olad Paul Palmer, 5-masted Phoenix HMS Pickle (1800) HMS Pictou (1814) Postboy Pretoria Pride of Baltimore Reaper Rebecca...
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    HMS Black Joke captures Almirante 1829, June 5 – HMS Pickle captures Voladora 1829, June 26 – HMS Monkey captures Midas 1830, September 7 – HMS Primrose...
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  • left Guadaloupe on a privateering cruise. On 30 June the tenders Gipsy and Pickle captured the French privateer schooner Fidelle (probably Fidèle), which...
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    Entreprenante was part of a naval squadron at the Siege of Genoa (1800). The squadron also included HMS Minotaur, Phoenix, Mondovi, and the tender Victoire, all...
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    Navy officer who, as a lieutenant commanding the tiny topsail schooner HMS Pickle, observed the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, participated in...
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  • at his three great battles; and HMS Pickle: The Swiftest Ship in Nelson’s Trafalgar Fleet, a history of HMS Pickle (1800) and her captain at the Battle...
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  • command Garland, an appointment he still held in 1799. On 9 April 1800, the tenders Pickle and Garland recaptured the schooner Hero. Hero had a crew of seven...
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  • HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Leda's design was based...
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    Collingwood's dispatches about the battle were carried to England aboard HMS Pickle, and when the news arrived in London, a messenger was sent to Merton Place...
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    1805, HMS Pickle (a Bermuda sloop) brought back news of the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1800 and 1801 Lord Cochrane commanded HMS Speedy...
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    trade as London-Africa. Enslaving voyage (1800): Captain Christopher Anderson sailed from London on 21 January 1800. Leander acquired captives at Bonny. She...
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    parts in the battle. Lieutenant John Lapenotière's historic voyage in HMS Pickle bringing the news of the victory from the fleet to Falmouth and thence...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also Capture of Portobello (1601) 17 January...
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  • with the 22-gun French privateer Grande Decide. In 1809 she was renamed Pickle. In December 1812 she and three other small British vessels engaged the...
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    included HMS Andromeda, HMS Unite, HMS Coromandel, HMS Proselyte, HMS Amphitrite, HMS Hornet, the brig HMS Drake, hired armed brig Fanny, schooner HMS Eclair...
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    Lord Hugh Seymour (category British MPs 1796–1800)
    HMS Tisiphone in September 1801. Seymour's body was taken from Jamaica on the morning of 17 September 1801, for return to Britain aboard HMS Pickle (originally...
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  • Byam was a snow launched at Oban, or possibly Padstow, in 1800. She made four voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. The French...
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    and 1800 ranges were also used for operational squadrons. An additional flying unit of the Royal Navy is the FOST Helicopter Support Unit based at HMS Raleigh...
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    HMS Astraea (or Astrea) was a 32-gun fifth rate Active-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Fabian at E. Cowes launched her in 1781, and she saw action in...
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    Travers was launched in 1800 as an East Indiaman. She made four complete voyages as an "extra ship" for the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked...
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    marque for Lord Nelson, the warrant being dated 14 February 1800. Lord Nelson left on 17 March 1800 and reached Madras on 13 July. She went on to Penang, which...
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    bought from trade, primarily for use as couriers. The most notable was HMS Pickle, the former Bermudian merchantman that carried news of victory back from...
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  • From Insurgencies: Insights From History And Implications For Afghanistan. Pickle Partners Publishing. pp. 88–. ISBN 978-1-78625-345-3. Geoffrey Jukes (1...
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    needed] Keats entered the navy as a midshipman in 1770 aboard the 74-gun HMS Bellona under Captain John Montagu and followed Montagu when he was promoted...
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  • finally convicted in 1969. 27 March: 1966 theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy: Pickles, a mongrel dog, finds the FIFA World Cup Trophy, stolen 7 days earlier...
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    HMS Centaur was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 March 1797 at Woolwich. She served as Sir Samuel Hood's flagship in the Leeward...
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    and was soon adapted for service with the Royal Navy. The Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle carried dispatches of the victory at Trafalgar, and news of the death...
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    French Revolutionary Wars and rose in rank to become a general officer. In 1800 he married the sister of Louis Desaix, who was killed at the Battle of Marengo...
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