HMS Swallow was a 14-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1745, she initially served in home waters as a convoy escort and cruiser...

sloop launched in 1744 as HMS Galgo. She was renamed HMS Swallow that year, but was wrecked at the end of 1744. HMS Swallow (1745) was a 14-gun Merlin-class...

who was the first European to discover them, arriving in the sloop HMS Swallow (1745) in 1767. As of 2005[update], about one thousand people live on the...

March 1743. HMS Galgo (1743) was a sloop of ten 6-pounder guns and 272 tons burthen, launched in 1743 as HMS Galgo. She was renamed HMS Swallow that year...

of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the...

yacht at Plymouth HMS Lichfield (1730) 50-gun ship of the line at Plymouth HMS Saltash (1732), 8-gun sloop at Plymouth HMS Swallow (1732) 60-gun ship...

1768, written by her master. Dolphin sailed in 1766 in the company of HMS Swallow, under the command of Philip Carteret, who had served on Byron's circumnavigation...

Harland, and served on HMS Northumberland in the East Indies. In October 1771 he was promoted to lieutenant, and served on Swallow, Orford and Buckingham...

overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook...

sharp black scales and flaming red eyes. It attacks vessels, grabs and swallows people, as it lifts itself up like a column from the water. Norwegian Bishop...