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HMS Kingfisher was a Doterel-class screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 16 December 1879. She conducted anti-slavery...

borne the name Kingfisher (or King's Fisher), after the kingfisher bird: Kingfisher was a ship in service between 1664 and 1667. HMS Kingfisher (1675) was...

Doterel-class sloop, previously named HMS Kingfisher. She had been launched in 1879, renamed HMS Lark in 1892 and HMS Cruizer in 1893. She was sold in 1919...

1889. HMS Lark (1880) was a survey schooner launched in 1880 and sold in 1887. HMS Lark was an Doterel-class sloop launched in 1879 as HMS Kingfisher. She...

ship to be built at the dockyard HMS Gannet (1878) - the only surviving Sheerness-built vessel HMS Kingfisher (1879) HMS Pylades (1884) - the last classic...

expedition left Hoylake on 13 May comprising HMS Greyhound (sixth rate, Captain Gwillam), HMS Kingfisher (ketch, Captain Edward Boyce) and a merchant...

archipelago are austral parakeets, gulls, guanacos, South American foxes, kingfishers, Andean condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds. Isla...

Greenhithe, in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred...

Gooders, J. (1994) Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland. London. Kingfisher. Matthews, L. H. (1968) British Mammals. London. Bloomsbury. WM Adams...

airplane catapult and the ship's OS2U Kingfisher observation planes. The three pilots who flew Texas's Kingfishers during this period were temporarily transferred...

International Dictionary of the English Language Comprising the issues of 1864, 1879 and 1884. p. 137. Marshall, George (1822). Marshall's Practical Marine Gunnery:...

HMS Mutine was a Doterel-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched on 20 July 1880. She became a boom defence vessel...

July 1880 Sold for breaking 24 September 1892 Kingfisher Sheerness Dockyard 23 September 1878 16 December 1879 17 August 1880 Training ship 10 November 1892...

purchased by the Royal Navy. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick (to avoid confusion with the newly commissioned HMAS Adelaide), and...

the African goshawk, the palm-nut vulture, scops owl, the malachite kingfisher and the Pemba white-eye. Other faunal species consist of Pemba flying...

lightship until a structural survey in 1878 condemned the ship. On April 16, 1879, the lightship was sold for scrap at public auction. "Arctic". Dictionary...

HMS Valorous was one of two 16-gun, steam-powered Magicienne-class second-class paddle frigates built for the Royal Navy in the 1850s. Commissioned in...

1831 a British expedition departed under captain Robert FitzRoy, on board HMS Beagle, with the main purpose of making a hydrographic survey of the coasts...

Britannic 2 Nov: HMS Malabar 4 Nov: Djemnah Nov: HMS Thunderer 18 Dec: HMS Cleopatra 21 Dec: Mona Dec: Mona's Isle Unk: Fusō Unk: Red Jacket ← 1877 1879 →...

79°52′19″W / 32.69333°N 79.87194°W / 32.69333; -79.87194 (USS Keokuk) USS Kingfisher  United States Navy 28 March 1864 A bark that ran aground on the banks...