HMS Cormorant was probably launched in 1803 at Howden Pans as the merchant ship Blenheim. The Admiralty purchased her in June and the Royal Navy took...
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establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant: HMS Cormorant (1757) was a 16-gun fireship, previously the...
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her to her owners in 1805, and she was wrecked in 1823. HMS Anacreon (1813) was a Cormorant-class ship-sloop launched in 1813 and lost, presumed foundered...
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renamed C15 and sold in 1908. HMS Lily (1861), a 4-gun Cormorant-class gunvessel launched in 1861 and broken up in 1867. HMS Lily (1874), a 3-gun Arab-class...
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paddle gunvessel launched in 1834 and broken up in 1860. HMS Tartarus was to have been a Cormorant-class wooden screw gunvessel, laid down in 1860 and cancelled...
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appointed to the sloop HMS Cormorant and sailed for Jamaica in February 1795. He subsequently commanded HMS Hannibal, HMS Sampson and HMS Jamaica before being...
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In 1776 he went out to the East Indies in command of HMS Cormorant, from which he was posted to HMS Rippon as flag captain to Sir Edward Vernon. In this...
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1818 on her way from Hull to Miramichi Bay. HMS Lynx (1794) was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the Cormorant-class in the Royal Navy, launched at Gravesend...
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the 74-gun HMS Repulse and the 74-gun HMS Bombay during the blockade of Toulon until May 1813, and on the Cormorant-class ship-sloop HMS Anacreon, before...
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HMS America was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and was...
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