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name HMS Advice Prize. The name indicates the ships were taken as prizes by ships named Advice, and subsequently commissioned into the navy: HMS Advice Prize (1693)...

have borne the name HMS Advice: English ship Advice (1586) was a 9-gun full-rigged pinnace launched in 1586 and sold in 1617. HMS Advice (1650) was a 40-gun...

frigate HMS Advice Prize To New England: 54-gun ship of the line HMS Reserve To the Leeward Islands: 42-gun frigate HMS Hector, 24-gun frigate HMS Margate...

rebuilt in 1699 and wrecked in 1707. HMS Eagle (1696) was a 10-gun advice boat launched in 1696 and wrecked in 1703. HMS Eagle (c.1745 fireship) was a fireship...

John (1780) was a cutter purchased in 1780 and listed until 1781. HMS St John Prize (1695) was an advice boat captured from the French in 1695 but recaptured in...

Advice was one of six 40-gun fourth-rate frigates, built for the Commonwealth of England under the 1650 Programme, she would be transferred to the navy...

and Chichester captured the advice-brig Serin off San Domingo on 31 July 1794. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Serin. In February 1796, Intrepid...

of HMS Salisbury of 50 guns under Captain Francis Hosier and Littleton's flagship, Salisbury Prize of 50 guns under Captain Sir Robert Harland, HMS Jersey...

British Royal Navy in North American waters as an advice boat. In 1815 the Royal Navy commissioned her as HMS Express, a ship's tender serving in the Mediterranean...

When the war begins afresh, Aubrey has a command aboard HMS Polychrest, gaining fewer prizes yet succeeding in his military goals. He is eventually promoted...

feelings for a young woman whom he meets on a different ship they encounter, HMS Alcyone. Feeling ill, he expresses his fears about the seaworthiness of his...

Baltic Project), even having the shallow-draft battlecruisers HMS Furious, HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous constructed for the purpose. As the Gallipoli campaign...

the Spanish Succession. These ships included HMS Stirling Castle, HMS Northumberland, HMS Mary and HMS Restoration, with about 1,500 seamen killed particularly...

£400 (equivalent to £64,400 in 2023) in prize money. Parker appointed him as master and commander of the brig HMS Badger on 8 December. Nelson and Badger...

notable for having been commissioned by the British Empire's Royal Navy as HMS Diamond Rock, a "stone frigate" serving from February 1804 until June 1805...

Dryad in The Ionian Mission, missing his chance at a share of the prize taken by HMS Surprise in convoy with Dryad, as he is not on the horizon, having...

USS Olympia: one of two protected cruisers currently preserved. HMS Caroline: WW1 light cruiser. HMS Belfast: WW2 light cruiser. Huáscar: one of the earliest...

the Cape Verde Islands on HMS Carnarvon and was present at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. He was then transferred to HMS Barham and saw much action...

American Revolutionary War. She captured two British prizes during her cruises to Europe. In 1780, HMS Vulture, a Swan-class sloop bearing 16 six-pounders...

1702 he took command of HMS Firm, a freshly captured French ship of 70 guns. This commission was as an Advice Prize (advance prize), as he was responsible...