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HMS Lightning was a torpedo boat, built by John Thornycroft at Church Wharf in Chiswick for the Royal Navy, which entered service in 1876 and was the...

named HMS Lightning. The first HMS Lightning (1691) was an 8-gun fire ship launched in 1691 and captured by the French in 1705. The second HMS Lightning (1740)...

is a continuation of the preliminary exploratory missions of HMS Lightning (1823) and HMS Porcupine (1844). These results are important for Carpenter because...

(1876) HMS Slaney Royal Navy (1877) HMS Spey Royal Navy (1876) HMS Tay Royal Navy (1876) HMS Tees Royal Navy (1876) HMS Trent Royal Navy (1877) HMS Tweed...

Norwegian coasts, he persuaded the Royal Navy to grant him use of HMS Lightning and HMS Porcupine for deep sea dredging expeditions in the summers of 1868...

HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship...

tons). The first, HMS Queen Elizabeth, commenced flight trials in 2018. Both are intended to operate the STOVL variant of the F-35 Lightning II. Queen Elizabeth...

torpedoes was HMS Vesuvius of 1873. The first seagoing vessel designed to fire the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was HMS Lightning. The boat was built...

being converted to use them in 1879, the same year the Royal Navy's HMS Lightning entered service. The name Rap (Rapp in the modern spelling) translates...

she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...

designed to launch the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was the 33-ton HMS Lightning in 1876. She was armed with two drop collars to launch these weapons; these...

several bold battles in the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Temeraire, "The Great Brig", an ironclad launched in 1876, the largest ship to sail with a brig rig. NMS...

scientific cruises of the H.M.S. Porcupine and the H.M.S. Lightning between 1868 and 1870,: c. 2  followed by that of the H.M.S. Challenger. He was elected...

Commander Phillip Parker King, in HMS Adventure. In the desolate waters of Tierra del Fuego Stokes, the captain of HMS Beagle, became depressed and shot...

a lightning detector to help the forest service track lightning strikes that could start fires. His receiver proved to be able to sense lightning strikes...

first boat designed to fire the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was HMS Lightning, completed in 1877. The French Navy followed suit in 1878 with Torpilleur...

The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...

Navy of Norway, followed by similar boats for other navies, and by HMS Lightning for the Royal Navy in 1877. Torpedoes and torpedo boats were seen as...

he died at the Hague. His body was returned to England on the ship HMS Lightning. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Derbyshire....

was given for use as a flag pole on the keep (where it twice suffered lightning damage), and the present flagpole is a fibreglass replica. In an episode...