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Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Fly: HMS Fly (1648) was a six-gun sloop, built in 1648 and last listed in 1652. HMS Fly (1672) was a six-gun dogger captured...

HMS Fly was a cutter that the Royal Navy purchased in 1778. The French Navy captured Fly in June 1781. Lieutenant Milham Ponsonby commissioned Fly in May...

the Gulf of Papua, New Guinea, the Fly River was named after HMS Fly. For the most of its seaworthy existence, Fly was captained by Francis Price Blackwood...

HMS Fly was launched in 1805. In 1807 she participated in one major naval campaign. She was wrecked on 28 February 1812 at Anholt Island in the Kattegat...

HMS Fly was a Swan-class ship sloop of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 September 1776. She performed mainly convoy escort duties during the French Revolutionary...

HMS Fly was launched in March 1804. She was wrecked in March 1805. Commander Robert O'Brien commissioned her. Commander the Honourable Pownoll Bastard...

HMS Fly was an 18-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She was responsible for the exploration and charting of much of Australia's north-east coast and nearby...

could not confirm this. It was not until 1843, when Captain Blackwood on HMS Fly stayed two weeks in the area, that the British were able to verify that...

HMS Fly (J306) was a reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War. She survived the war and was sold to Iran in...

computers Fly (brig), a brig that disappeared in 1802 Fly (dinghy), sailing dinghy Fly-class brig-sloop HMS Fly, a list of ships of the Royal Navy Fly (American...

HMS Fly (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched on 16 February 1813...

several geological manuals and served as a naturalist on the expeditions of HMS Fly (under the command of Francis Price Blackwood). Correspondents and friends...

1860 by Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid, Francis Price Blackwood in HMS Fly, Owen Stanley in the Rattlesnake, and Henry Mangles Denham in the Herald...

Raisonnable. In the same month, he was appointed to the command of the sloop HMS Fly, and in that vessel took part later in the expedition under Lord Anson...

Colonel Stewart, Captain Samuel Wright, and Lieutenant Burchell were sent in HMS Fly (Captain Wetherall) and the brigs Dragon and Amity, took a number of convicts...

roughly in the middle of the size range of the batch of 30 bought that year (HMS Fly) are: length on deck 47 feet 6 inches (14.48 m), beam 20 feet 10.25 inches...

establish a colony in Western Port. This saw the dispatch from Sydney of HMS Fly, under the command of Captain Wetherall, and the brigs Dragon and Amity...

rarely consume meat. The Fly was first discovered by Europeans in 1845 when Francis Blackwood, commanding the corvette HMS Fly, surveyed the western coast...

with bows and arrows for fun. In May 1845, while visiting Bramble Cay via HMS Fly, naturalist John MacGillivray and Joseph Jukes collected a holotype, stored...

people that spanned the river. In 1843, during the surveying voyage of HMS Fly, Lieutenant John Ince, Joseph Jukes and Frederick Evans sailed up the river...