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HMS Penelope was a central-battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s and was rated as an armoured corvette. She was designed for inshore...

fifth HMS Penelope (1867) was an armoured corvette launched in 1867 that became a prison hulk in 1897 and was sold in 1912. The sixth HMS Penelope (1914)...

The first broadside ironclad to be commissioned into the Royal Navy was HMS Warrior. She carried a relatively small number of guns compared to the wooden...

Brilliant returned to England, and Blackwood was appointed to the frigate HMS Penelope, of 36 guns, in which, after a few months of Channel service, he was...

February 1866 and was appointed to the command of the frigate HMS Galatea in January 1867. Lord Charles Beresford described him as having "a great natural...

HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...

Sholl (1786–1836), an uncle of RJ Sholl, was a naval officer and Purser on HMS Sulphur, when it was part of the 1829 expedition to establish the Swan River...

John, was killed in action in 1944 whilst on active service aboard HMS Penelope, leaving behind two daughters. With no remaining male heirs, the barony...

the line of the French Navy. Later it was captured by the British and, as HMS Tigre, operated as part of the Royal Navy throughout the Napoleonic Wars...

to replace HMS Penelope as the flagship of the Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Reserve. That plan was cancelled due to the loss of HMS Vanguard, with...

Morts, Newfoundland and Labrador) Atlantic Canada 340 1815 April 30 HMS Penelope Shipwreck Cap-des-Rosiers, Lower Canada, British North America (Cap-des-Rosiers...

French Navy for several years carrying dispatches until in 1793 HMS Penelope and HMS Proserpine captured her off Jérémie. The Royal Navy took her into...

Revolutionary Wars. Two 44-gun frigates, Pénélope and Pauline, sortied from Toulon harbour to chase a British frigate, HMS Proserpine, which was conducting surveillance...

Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened. 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers...

threat. On 21 May, the destroyer HMS Juno was sunk and the next day the battleship HMS Warspite was damaged and the cruiser HMS Gloucester was sunk, with the...

1806, becoming HMS Armide. Minerve, (launched 9 September 1805 at Rochefort) – captured by British Navy 1806, becoming HMS Alceste. Pénélope, (launched 28...

from Margate, which they assume must be from Penelope Ann. However, the letter informs them that Penelope Ann was lost in a sailing accident and has left...

scuttling the vessel, setting off one explosive charge. The light cruiser HMS Penelope had also been sent after Alster, but had run aground near Bodø and suffered...

ISBN 9780709082774. "Pliny the Elder: the Natural History, Liber VIII". Penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2011-01-19. The Selected Writings of Sir Edward...

it will remain in force until 1954. January 9 – WWII: British submarine HMS Starfish is sunk in the Heligoland Bight. January 10 – WWII: Mechelen incident...