HMS Rattler was a 16-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. Launched in March 1783, she saw service in the Leeward Islands and Nova Scotia before being paid off...
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ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rattler: HMS Rattler (1783) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1783 and sold in 1792. She then made two voyages...
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tested on Rattler during this period to find the most effective screw design. On 17 May 1845 Rattler and steamers HMS Monkey and HMS Blazer towed HMS Erebus...
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HMS Calypso was a Royal Navy Echo-class ship-sloop. She was built at Deptford between 1781 and 1783, launched on 27 September 1783 and first commissioned...
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Africa, by HMS Rattler (1864) and Taken to St. Helena to prize court by C.G. Nelson midshipman in command.[citation needed] Fletcher, 1771-1783 ship owned...
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in the mid-1840s (the famous tug-of-war between the screw-propelled HMS Rattler and the paddlewheeled Alecto (1839) was entertaining, but records show...
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galleys). The first ship to be built at the dockyard, a 10-gun pinnace named HMS Merlin (or Merlyon), was launched in 1579. The dockyard received its first...
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Wilfred, who had arrived on the station in command of the 14-gun sloop HMS Rattler, the officers decided to take a firm stance on implementing the Navigation...
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Navy HMS Calliope (1837) HMS Acheron (1838) HMS Rattler (1843) - the first warship to use screw propulsion HMS Miranda (1851) HMS Clio (1858) HMS Diamond...
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he was appointed third lieutenant of HMS Bienfaisant. He was with Bienfaisant until 1783, when he joined HMS Pegase as her first lieutenant. On 17 August...
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