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HMS Ruby was an Emerald-class composite screw corvette that served in the Victorian Royal Navy. The Emerald class was a development of the wooden Amethyst...

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ruby: HMS Ruby (1652) was initially a 40-gun warship launched in 1652. She fought in the War of the...

July 1874 alongside sister ship Ruby, Turquoise was launched on 22 April 1876 and was completed on 13 September 1876 at a cost of £95,547. The warship...

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...

Handsley joined the Royal Navy on 24 December 1901 aged 15. Whilst serving on HMS Ringarooma at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, he joined the British National...

He attended the gunnery school HMS Excellent in 1880 and then joined the staff there in 1882. He returned to HMS Ruby on the South East Coast of America...

54°36′47″N 5°54′10″W / 54.61306°N 5.90278°W / 54.61306; -5.90278 HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw...

HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...

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

Pelter (1854) Pincher (1854) Badger (1854) Snapper (1854) Gleaner (1854) Ruby (1854) Dapper class Lark (1855) Magpie (1855) Dapper (1855) Fancy (1855)...

HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...

HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was...

HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia...

Portsmouth, along with the other completed Holland boat and their tender, HMS Hazard. Together they made up the "First Submarine Flotilla", commanded by...

HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently...

particularly to the awkward scullery-maid, Ruby, but she is a kind and affectionate woman and regards Ruby as the daughter she never had. When another...

Henry George Blogg GC BEM (6 February 1876 – 13 June 1954) was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England, and the most decorated...

HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then...

000 Sold 1870 Australasian Calabria 1857 1859–1876 Intermediate 2,700 Built for other owners, sold 1876, scrapped 1898 Atlas 1860 1860–1896 Intermediate...

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