HMS Reynard was part of the 1847 Program, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Deptford Dockyard with the name ‘Plumper’. The vessel was...
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name HMS Renard, or HMS Reynard, after the French for fox, and the anthropomorphic figure of Reynard: HMS Renard (1780) was an 18-gun sloop that HMS Brune...
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Portugal in 1847; afterwards, in 1848, in the Mediterranean Sea, and from 1848 to 1851 as midshipman of the Reynard in operations against piracy in Chinese...
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were sometimes burned as symbols of the Devil. In the medieval cycle of Reynard the Fox, he is a trickster interacting with other anthropomorphic animals...
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HMS Miranda was a 14-gun (15-gun from 1856) wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy. As part of the 1847 Program, she was designed by John Fincham, Master...
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USS Onkahye (category Maritime incidents in June 1848)
the anti-piracy/anti-slave trade patrols in the Caribbean, it went down in 1848 off East Caicos, in the Turks & Caicos Islands. A NOAA-supported expedition...
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Ocean Monarch (barque) (category Maritime incidents in August 1848)
Donald McKay in East Boston in 1847. She is famous for her ill fate: in 1848, she caught fire at sea and sank near Liverpool with the loss of 178 lives...
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Wave (brig) (category Maritime incidents in July 1848)
Wave was a brig that was wrecked in 1848 at Cheynes Beach near Cape Riche, Western Australia. Built in 1838 in Victoria, Bermuda, the vessel was constructed...
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Texan sloop-of-war Austin (category Maritime incidents in 1848)
Texas joined the United States in 1845, but was run aground and broken up in 1848. The Texas Navy was officially formed in January 1836, with the purchase...
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USS Petrita (category Maritime incidents in 1848)
Petrita was a steamer that served in the United States Navy from 1846 to 1848. She saw service in the Mexican War. Petrita was a small, swift, screw steamer...
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