The H[onourable] C[ompany's] S[hip] Sylph was a schooner launched in 1806 at the Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British East...
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to Singapore in 1849. Sylph (pilot boat) 19th-century pilot boat first built in 1834, by Whitmore & Holbrook. HCS Sylph (1806) was a schooner of six...
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1926 but stranded on her way to the breakers in 1927. HCS Sylph was an 8-gun schooner launched in 1806 by the Bombay Dockyard for the Bombay Marine, the naval...
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Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806. She had a relatively uneventful career, primarily on the Newfoundland station...
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Manchester Packet was built at New York in 1806. She immediately transferred to British registry and spent a number of years trading across the Atlantic...
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diplomatic convoy consisted of the frigate HMS Nereide and two sloops, HCS Sylph and HMS Sapphire. The convoy was commanded by Captain Robert Corbet, who...
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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1835 Shipwrecks 30 Jan: Sylph 12 Mar: George III 17 Mar: Oracabessa 22 Apr: Cambridge 13 May: Neva 19 May:...
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recaptured HCS Sylph, a 78-ton schooner of the British East India Company's naval arm, the Bombay Marine. Joasmi ([Al Qasimi]) Arabs had just captured Sylph and...
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