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    HMS Rover was an 18-gun iron screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s, the sole ship of her class. The ship was initially assigned to the...
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  • Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rover: HMS Rover (1779) was a 16-gun sloop, formerly the American Cumberland. The British captured her...
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    commanding officer of the corvette HMS Rover in the Training Squadron in September 1885, commanding officer of the battleship HMS Temeraire in the Mediterranean...
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  • frigate HMS Discovery (1741), a 6-gun storeship HMS Discovery (1774), an 8-gun discovery vessel HMS Discovery (1789), a 10-gun sloop HMS Discovery (1874), a...
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    the Paiwan. The Royal Navy ship HMS Cormorant reached the "Koalut country" on March 26, discovered the fate of the Rover, and informed the American East...
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  • despatch vessel HMS Lively, the battleship HMS Temeraire and the gunboat HMS Condor with the Mediterranean Fleet, and then the cruiser HMS Rover in the Training...
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    The Rover Incident (Chinese: 羅妹號事件; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ or Chinese: 羅妹號慘案; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Chhám-àn) occurred on 12 March 1867 when the...
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    sealing expedition. Rover was a privateer brig out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia known for several bold battles in the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Temeraire, "The Great...
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    in the USA and Canada. The ship remained in service until autumn 1874. In 1875, Rover was only in service for the summer half-year, and in the spring of...
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    HMS Volage was a Volage-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. She spent most of her first commission assigned to the Flying Squadron...
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    to the corvette HMS Cadmus in December 1871. Promoted to sub-lieutenant on 18 October 1874, he was posted to the corvette HMS Rover on the North America...
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    2007 of a solar-powered aircraft that would control a resistant surface rover on the ground. The aircraft would carry the mission's sensitive electronics...
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  • Mottoes in South African Universities". "Home". sggs.co.za. Naval History: HMS Venetia (D 53) – V & W-class Destroyer Additional references Adeleye, Gabriel...
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    HMS Edgar (1862); HMS Medea (1865); HMS Doris (1868); HMS Constance (1868); HMS Valorous; HMS Racoon (1874). HMS Galatea, 1865 (left of center) HMS Galatea, Halifax...
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  • launches in 1874 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1874. "Launch". Glasgow Herald. No. 10613. Glasgow. 2 January 1874. "Launch"....
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  • armoured frigate HMS Defence, a ship of the Channel Squadron. From 18 August to 14 December 1864 he was an Additional Lieutenant in HMS Bombay, an elderly...
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    British were not aware of until 1845. On 12 March 1867, the American barque Rover shipwrecked offshore at the southern tip of Taiwan. The vessel sank but...
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    June 1893) was a Royal Navy officer who died when his flagship HMS Victoria collided with HMS Camperdown during manoeuvres off Tripoli, Lebanon. Tryon was...
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    in 1851. Red Rover in 1851, a steam tug, worked on the South Foreland and Sangatte replacement cable with new section of armored cable. HMS Widgeon in 1851...
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    carrier HMS Formidable, the battleships HMS Warspite and HMS Barham, the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Orion, and HMAS Perth, the submarine HMS Rover, the...
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    HMS Active was a Volage-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Launched in 1869, she entered service in 1873, and was the commodore's...
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    records that she "... rotted on wharves where nobody wanted her." In February 1874, the consortium sold the ship, at a considerable loss, to a partnership of...
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    History of HMS Devastation (1841) History of HMS Alacrity (1856) The Navy List, July 1885, corrected to 20 June 1885, page 71. History of HMS Juno (1867)...
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    United States Squadron, that "aboriginals" had murdered the survivors from Rover after that American merchant bark had been wrecked on rocks just off the...
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  • Scottish Referee: 2. 3 June 1898. "Oban West End v H.M.S. Isis". Oban Times: 2. 9 July 1904. "Mossfield Rovers v West End". Oban Telegraph and West Highland...
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  • 2000. Corfield, Richard. The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2003. Hamblin, Jacob Darwin...
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    and explosives that was the fate of other wrecks in the Solent (such as HMS Royal George). The modern search for the Mary Rose was initiated by the Southsea...
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    innovation came from Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, who developed the Rover safety bicycle, the first true modern bicycle with two equal-sized wheels...
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  • Carthusians in its 1881 FA Cup Final win. Tod was born on board the ship HMS Trafalgar, the son of Lieutenant Alexander George Tod of the Madras Light...
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    regarded as hopelessly obsolete by the late 1880s. She served alongside HMS Shah in the action against the Peruvian warship Huascar on 29th May 1877...
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