The eighth HMS Shannon was the first British armoured cruiser. She was the last Royal Navy ironclad to be built which had a propeller that could be hoisted...

the Navy List in 1832. HMS Shannon (1855) was a wooden-hulled screw frigate launched in 1855 and sold in 1871. HMS Shannon (1875) was an ironclad screw...

capture of USS Chesapeake by the frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812, the wounding of HMS Shannon's captain and the death of her first lieutenant...

was sold at Portsmouth, England in 1820 and broken up. HMS Shannon – 7 died (1813) HMS Shannon leading USS Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour in June 1813...

on 5 January 1856, he joined the gunboat HMS Ant in March 1856 before transferring to the frigate HMS Shannon on the East Indies Station later that year...

the bay was named after Sir Gordon Bremer by John Septimus Roe, captain of HMS Tamar, onboard which he served as a lieutenant from 1824 to 1827. The area...

1852 HMS Euryalus 1853 HMS Aurora 1861 HMS Forte 1858 HMS Chesapeake 1855 Liffey class 1856 HMS Liffey 1856 HMS Shannon 1855 HMS Topaze 1858 HMS Bacchante...

the later HMS Shannon, often described as the first British armored cruiser, would have been too slow to outrun General-Admiral. While Shannon was the last...

cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia on 15 July 1875. Promoted to midshipman on 27 July 1878, he joined the frigate HMS Shannon in the Channel Squadron...

last battleship, the 91 gun HMS Defiance laid down in 1858, was 75 m long and displaced 5,700 t. The screw frigate HMS Shannon was much smaller at 3,915...