HMS Prometheus was an Alecto-class sloop designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy. Originally classed as a steam vessel (SV3), her classification...
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renamed HMS Veteran (fireship) in 1839 and broken up in 1852. HMS Prometheus (1839) was an Alecto-class paddle sloop launched in 1839. HMS Prometheus (1898)...
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launched in 1807 as HMS Prometheus. She was used for harbour service from 1819, was renamed HMS Veteran in 1839 and was broken up in 1852. HMS Veteran (D72)...
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the frigate HMS Volontaire later that year and, having been promoted to commander on 22 January 1806, took command of the sloop HMS Prometheus in March 1807...
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thanks of the Governor-General in Council. In 1854, when commander of HMS Prometheus, he attacked the Riff pirates on shore near Cape Tres Forcas, and recaptured...
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Shelley's drama Prometheus Unbound (1820) makes reference to Zoroaster meeting "his own image walking in the garden". In Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story...
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Timeline of the 19th century (section 1839)
following childbirth. Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Independence of Chile. The Old Vic is established (under the name of...
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ISBN 978-0190456672. Henderson, Donald (2009). Smallpox: The Death of a Disease. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1591027225. Henriques, Peter R. (2006). Realistic Visionary:...
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but David Landes' use of the term in a 1966 essay and in The Unbound Prometheus (1972) standardized scholarly definitions of the term, which was most...
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Society, and the lords of the admiralty granted him a free passage in HMS Prometheus, which left England on 17 June 1844, and reached Cape Castle on 22 July...
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