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Lang and launched in London on 30 June 1855 by Lady Constance Talbot. Commander William Henry Norman sailed Victoria from Plymouth to Hobsons Bay, arriving...12 KB (1,287 words) - 09:12, 10 June 2024
HMS Victoria was the last British wooden first-rate three-decked ship of the line commissioned for sea service. With a displacement of 6,959 tons, she...5 KB (445 words) - 10:42, 5 January 2024
HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131-gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line (with her...8 KB (767 words) - 12:57, 11 November 2023
including the Storming of the Sikandar Bagh. Five Victoria Crosses were won by the following crew of HMS Shannon: Lieutenant Thomas Young, Lieutenant Nowell...5 KB (334 words) - 14:16, 1 May 2024- 1810 and broken up. HMS Victor (1814) was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1814. She foundered in 1842. HMS Victor (1855) was a wooden screw...2 KB (337 words) - 07:16, 22 July 2023
- screw-propelled ship in 1852. HMS Windsor Castle (1858) was laid down as a 116-gun first rate named HMS Victoria, but was renamed in 1855 before being launched...2 KB (342 words) - 14:55, 15 December 2021
HMS Forward was a British Albacore-class wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855 and sold in 1869. After her sale, Mexican pirates captured her, and boats...4 KB (389 words) - 02:54, 11 March 2024- Mytilene, Greece. She was part of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1860. "HMS Intrepid, 1855". P. Benyon's Naval Database. Archived from the original on 24 September...3 KB (110 words) - 04:20, 4 July 2024
HMS Pearl was a Pearl-class 21-gun screw corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1855, displacing 2,187 tons. In September 1857, during the Indian Rebellion...5 KB (396 words) - 01:41, 18 May 2024- ships' namesake: HMVS Victoria (1855), a sloop-of-war launched in 1855 HMVS Victoria (1884), a gunboat launched in 1884 HMS Victoria, four ships of the Royal...495 bytes (97 words) - 15:04, 23 December 2021
HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...19 KB (2,183 words) - 14:58, 26 June 2024
John Robarts (VC) (category British recipients of the Victoria Cross)On 29 May 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea, Gunner Robarts of HMS Ardent with two lieutenants, Cecil Buckley and Hugh Burgoyne, one from HMS Miranda and...3 KB (234 words) - 18:35, 27 March 2024- Siege of Taganrog (redirect from Siege of Taganrog (1855))HMS Swallow had left her hull in a salvageable state. On 5 August 1855 Osborn arrived off Taganrog to destroy the new battery with HMS Vesuvius, HMS Grinder...20 KB (2,568 words) - 14:02, 4 May 2024
appointed captain. The ship served in the Baltic Campaign in 1854–1855. On 2 April 1855 she gave HMS Imperieuse a tow, after the ship had run aground; the previous...7 KB (596 words) - 23:19, 26 August 2023
achieving responsible government in 1855. The Victorian gold rush in the 1850s and 1860s significantly increased Victoria's population and wealth. By the time...124 KB (10,868 words) - 08:35, 6 July 2024
Charles Hotham (category 1855 deaths)1806 – 31 December 1855) was Lieutenant-Governor and, later, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 22 June 1854 to 10 November 1855. Hotham was born at...12 KB (1,399 words) - 23:35, 7 July 2024
queen. Bombardment of Sevastopol by HMS Rodney, Crimean War (October 1854) British lithograph published March 1855, after a water-colour by William Simpson...32 KB (3,126 words) - 15:05, 8 July 2024
HMS Arrogant was an early wood screw frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1848 and sold in 1867. During the period of 1848–1850 she was commanded by...5 KB (351 words) - 10:50, 27 October 2023
John Edmund Commerell (category Crimean War recipients of the Victoria Cross)the Crimean War. He became commanding officer of the gun vessel HMS Weser in February 1855; however the ship caught fire near Constantinople and was beached...17 KB (1,609 words) - 19:29, 6 July 2024
lieutenant on board HMS Duke of Wellington and HMS Cossack in 1855, after which he was promoted to captain in 1860 and given command of HMS Magicienne, and...11 KB (781 words) - 02:35, 8 July 2024
- H.M.S. Weser was present at Sebastopol, and in several operations in the Sea of Azof; he was twice mentioned in despatches, and received the Victoria
- historical significance. Its story began in 1852, when Queen Victoria dispatched the HMS Resolute to search for the British explorer John Franklin, who
- this, what is believed to have been part of the programme was picked up by H.M.S. Hood at Hobart, while in Melbourne music from W.J.A.Z. was picked up. Considerable