ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Linnet after the linnet, a bird of the finch family: HMS Linnet (1806) was a 14-gun brig, originally named...
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HMS Linnet was a 16-gun brig, built in 1814 by the Royal Navy at Ile aux Noix, Canada, as Niagara. Renamed Linnet and commanded by Commander Daniel Pring...
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broken up in 1912. HMS Havock was to have been a Laforey-class destroyer, but was renamed HMS Linnet before being launched in 1913. HMS Havock (H43) was...
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1912. HMS Hasty was a tender transferred from the War Department in 1906 as HMS Linnet (1906), renamed HMS Hasty in 1913 and sold in 1932. HMS Hasty (H24)...
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HMS Linnet was a Laforey-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. Launched on 16 August 1913 as HMS Havock, the ship...
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HMS Linnet was one of three Royal Navy Linnet-class minelayers built in 1938. Jane's Fighting Ships 1939, p. 98 Cocker, M.P. (1993). Mine Warfare Vessels...
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HMS Linnet was originally His Majesty's revenue cutter Speedwell, launched in 1797, that the Royal Navy purchased in 1806. Linnet captured a number of...
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Death on the Nile novel by Agatha Christie. HMS Linnet, the name of nine ships of the Royal Navy USS Linnet, the name of three ships of the US Navy, and...
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service. The first vessel in the American line, she fought HMS Chub, HMS Linnet, and HMS Confiance alongside the USS Saratoga. During the course of the...
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PS Niagara, a Great Lakes steamboat HMS Linnet (1814), built in 1814 as Niagara HMS Niagara, earlier known as HMS Royal George, a British 20-gun wooden...
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