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HMS Venus (renamed HMS Heroine in 1809) was the name ship of the 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1758 and...

name HMS Venus, after Venus, the goddess of love in Roman mythology: HMS Venus (1758) was a 36-gun fifth-rate Venus-class frigate launched in 1758. She...

were scarlet. Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Venus between 1758 and 1972. The most recent was a destroyer launched in 1943, which...

by Thomas Slade HMS Venus 1758 – reclassed as a 32 in 1792, renamed Heroine in 1809, hulked as convict ship in 1824, sold 1828. HMS Pallas 1757 – ran...

but this was never carried out: HMS Levant (1758) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and broken up by 1780. HMS Levant was to have been a 36-gun...

claimants. HMS Heroine was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1758 as the 36-gun HMS Venus. She was reduced in 32 guns in 1792 and renamed HMS Heroine in...

HMS Brilliant was a 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy that saw active service during the Seven Years' War with France. She...

August 2008. "HMS Arethusa (+1779)". Wrecksite. 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2008. Boscawen, Hugh (2011). The capture of Louisbourg, 1758. Norman: University...

on 6 February 1757 at Harwich. At the action of 29 April 1758, she was detached along with HMS Dorsetshire in pursuit of the 64-gun French ship Raisonnable...

August 1758, when she was decommissioned. On 18 March, she was recommissioned in Brest. On 30 January 1762, she was captured by the frigates HMS Venus and...

HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and initially served in Sir Edward Hawke's...

stocks in February 1758 while building and launched in June 1758 at Dunkirk) – captured by British Navy in February 1760, becoming HMS Terpsichore. Zénobie...

with the sloops HMS Raven and HMS Bonetta. Seahorse was then briefly under the command of acting Commander James Hackman from July 1758, before Captain...

afloat for twenty-two years. He was appointed in 1768 to the frigate HMS Venus as governor to the Duke of Cumberland, who remained with him in all ranks...

The Venus-class frigates were three 36-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1756 by Sir Thomas Slade...

overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook...

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...

to Britain in Caroline, renamed HMS Bourbonaise. While Rowley was attacking Saint-Paul, Hamelin and his ships Vénus, Manche, Bellone and Créole were...

commissioned to the Baltic Rowing Fleet, last mentioned 1808 Venus ("Венус", ex-Swedish HMS Venus, 1783, captured in Oslofjord in 1789 during the Russo-Swedish...

of his last surviving daughter (Charlotte Boyle) in 1754 and his widow in 1758, the property was ceded to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Charlotte's...