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  HMS Leda
The third Leda was a 36-gun 5th rate launched 1809 and sold 1817.
The fourth Leda was a 46-gun 5th rate launched in 1828, used as a police hulk from 1864, and sold in 1906.
The fifth Leda was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper 1909 and sold 1920.
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  hms leda - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
The first Leda was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1783 and foundered 1796.
The third Leda was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched 1809 and sold 1817.
The fifth Leda was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper 1909 and sold 1920.
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 HMS Leda
The second Leda was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched 1800 and wrecked 1808.
The third Leda was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched 1809 and sold 1817.
The fourth Leda was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, used as a police hulk from 1864, and sold in 1906.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_leda.html   (121 words)

  
 HMS Mercury
23 Apr 1809 Spartan, Amphion, and Mercury, cruising off the town of Pesaro, with the ships' boats, briefly captured the town and brought off 13 deeply laden vessels and destroyed the military installations.
7 Sep 1809 ship's boats entered the harbour of Barletta, near Manfredonia, and boarded and carried the French national schooner Pugliése.
Portsmouth 21 Jan 1810 Arrived with convoy from the Mediterranean.
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 Battle of Trafalgar 1805 - Colchester Men
HMS Royal Sovereign (1786) was a 100-gun 1st rate ship of the line which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar.
HMS Defiance was a 74 gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in 1783 by Randall and Co., at Rotherhithe on the River Thames.
HMS Naiad was built by Hall and Co. at Limehouse on the Thames, launched in 1797 and commissioned in 1798.
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 Leda Furniture
Leda and the Swan furnished a common motif for the visual arts into the 19th century.
Leda belongs to the Himalia group, five moons orbiting between 11 and 13 Gm from Jupiter at an inclination of about 27.5°.
In Greek mythology, Leda was a Spartan queen, wife of Tyndareus and mother of the double sets of mixed twins, Castor and Polydeuces and Clytemnestra and Helen, as well as Phoebe and Philonoe.
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 HMS Leda at AllExperts
* The second Leda was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched 1800 and wrecked 1808.
* The fourth Leda was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, used as a police hulk from 1864, and sold in 1906.
* The fifth Leda was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper 1909 and sold 1920.
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 HMS Leda (1809) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Arborwood Forums - Maindeck Forum - Topic Printout
The crew of HMS Scipio were fighting desparately to drop the foremast as the flames rapidly ascended the tarred rigging; the smoke had begun to rise even as Captain Hutton had returned aboard from the Mercia.
HMS Florida’s sail had to be trimmed several times on this trip to slow to the pace of the cutter Kilic and the sloop Ferret.
HM Sloop Mistral had already reported that the bulk of the Russian fleet was still at anchor, sheltered under the guns of their protecting fortress.
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 Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy,L   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the summer of 1809 LARK took part in the short blockade of the city of San Domingo until the surrender of the French garrison to Major-General Carmichael and the general commanding the Spanish troops.
LEDA was sent to the Straits of Sunda and the China seas to frustrate American attacks and it was in Java on 23 July that he first heard of the cessation of hostilities.
Nicholas TOMLINSON, late of H.M. sloop SUFFISANTE, fitted her out to cruise in the Mediterranean, and took passage in her to Oporto during August 1798 but having taken two valuable prizes crossing the Bay, and six others a few days after, she was obliged to return to Plymouth for more Prize Masters and men.
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 HMS Leda Information
The second Leda was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched 1800 and wrecked 1808.
The fourth Leda was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, used as a police hulk from 1864, and sold in 1906.
This is a list of ships with the same or similar names.
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 Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - LIST OF THE SHIPWRECKS OF THE ROYAL NAVY,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alemene Apr. 20, 1809 32 W. Henry Tremlett 254 None On a shoal at the mouth of the Loire.
Leda Dec. 11, 1796 38 John Woodley 264 257 Foundered by upsetting in a heavy gale, lat.
Leda Jan. 31, 1808 32 Robert Honyman 284 None At the entrance of Milford Harbour.
www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/view/107/8   (5913 words)

  
 HMS Saltash, minesweeper
She was launched on 25th July 1918 as the 7th RN ship to carry this name introduced in 1731 for a Sloop and last used by a Store Lighter ibn 1809.
December                 Transferred to Londonderry with HMS KELLETT and HMS ROSS for minesweeping duties in
HMS SALTASH remained in Reserve at Falmouth until 1947 when she was placed on the Disposal List.
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Post Captain HMS Dryad (36) drowned 1795 179 FORSTER William Ensign 68th Regt Foot To be 1st Lt 23rd Regt Foot 318 FORTESCUE Lieutenant RN of HMS Barham (frigate) 299 FOSS T. Hosp Asst.
Lieut HMS Swift - killed 1804 180 LEARY Patrick Troop Serj.major 14th Drag.To be Adjutant (Cornet) 318 LESLIE Matthew Colonel (died 3/10/1778) of Bengal Detachment in 1774 169 LILLYMAN Major Passenger in "Grenville" 1768 150-152 LINDESAY Patrick Lieut Col. Commanded Dorset Regt -12/8/1824 111, LINDESEY P. Col. 39th Regt.
To be Cornet 4th Light Dragoons 317 SCOTT J.Woodward Lieut HMS Princess Augusta Killed1803 180 SCOTT John Ensign in Bengal Brother of Col Scott 149 SCOTT Richard Lieut.
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 Vancouver's colleagues
Joseph Baker, the second son of the James and Nancy (née Ludlow and from Ludlow in Shropshire) Baker, was born in Bristol early in 1768.
Broughton took command of HMS Illustrious and, in 1809, was part of the expedition under Lord Gambier against the French Brest fleet in Aix Roads.
In June 1809, Puget was summonsed by Sir Richard Strachan to assist on a plan to attack the island of Walcheron in the Scheldt estuary in the Netherlands (this was the man whom Puget had searched for in the east in 1788).
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/HMS Leda
The first Leda was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1783 and foundered 1796.
The third Leda was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched 1809 and sold 1817.
The fourth Leda was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, used as a police hulk from 1864, and sold in 1906.
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 Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, M2   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In October 1809 Lord COLLINGWOOD received information from POMONE that several of an enemy squadron had left Toulon and there were signs that the whole fleet might be coming out to run a supply convoy to the French forces in Spain.
She was taken on the evening 2 September 1809 by 6 Danish gunboats off the Scaw, were she had been stationed with a light 6 miles E.S.E. of the Scaw lighthouse since the beginning of August.
A Court Martial was held on board HMS CLADIATOR at Portsmouth on 25 May 1814 to try the surviving officers and ship`s company for her loss on their return from captivity.
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 Naval history of Great Britain by William James
The Aurora, schooner, of Hokianga, is employed to convey the stores of the Osprey to that port, and the Adelaide, brig, has sailed from here, to take them on board for their ultimate destination.
H.M.S. Racehorse, likewise, sailed on Thursday morning, for the Bay of Islands, to be in communication with the officers and crew of the Osprey.
Wrecked on Cape Recife, S Africa - Loss of HM Steam Sloop Thunderbolt.- On Sunday evening, an express arrived from Port Elizabeth, communicating to the Admiral, the painful intelligence of the loss of the Thunderbolt, at the entrance of Algoa Bay.
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 HMS Eclair | Tubious
The first Eclair was an 22-gun sixth-rate frigate captured from the French by HMS Leda (1783)HMS Leda in 1793, sold in 1806.
The third Eclair was a 12-gun schooner captured from the French by HMS Garland (1800)HMS Garland off Guadeloupe in 1801, renamed as HMS Pickle (1809)HMS Pickle in 1809 and sold in 1818.
The fifth Eclair, originally called HMS Infernal, renamed Eclair in 1844, renamed again to HMS Rosamund in 1846, became a floating factory in 1863 and finally broken up in 1865.
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 Wooden Walls
He approached the Admiralty for a suitable ship and they immediately offered him HMS Cornwall if he could raise £2000 (a considerable sum in those days) to start the venture.
In 1868 she was moved to South Shields and had her name changed to TS Wellesley; here she was used as an Industrial School, and was eventually broken up at Sheerness in 1875.
Note: Two ships of the Leda class are still in existence; Unicorn at Dundee and Trincomalee at Hartlepool.
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 Pembrokeshire Maritime Heritage Experience | Sea activities from wooden boatbuilding to handling and crewing crafts ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Charles Greville on 23 April 1809, the land upon which the Government shipyard in Milford Haven stood passed to his brother, The Hon Robert Fulke Greville, who married Louisa, Countess of Mansfield, settling the property on her as a marriage portion.
In 1826 HMS Erebus was built for Sir John Franklin to seek the fabled North West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Timber was salvaged from her and taken to Milford where it was used in the construction of HMS Surprise, built 1812 with 46 guns and weighing 1072 tons.
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 Thomo’s Hole » Busk's Navies of the World - 1859 - Britain I
HMS Waterloo was renamed Conqueror after the original Conqueror was wrecked at the end of 1861.
The damage to the upperworks of HMS Agamemnon and the French steam battleship Ville de Paris at Sevastopol in particular had convinced many that guns on the upper deck were very vulnerable to shell fire and should be reduced.
She was originally a Leda class sailing frigate (see Sailing Frigates for details) with the midbody lengthened by 65′.
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 The Men who sailed with Captain James Cook
He was given command of HMS Prince, a 98 gun first rate, in 1803 and was in command at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Hatley was in command of HMS Boadicea, 38 guns, when it sailed to the Indian Ocean in June 1808 and took part in the attacks on Reunion and Mauritius.
Following this, he was transferred as acting lieutenant on board HMS Hornet, a sloop of 14 guns before, on 26 May 1768, he was appointed by commission as second lieutenant on the Endeavour as Cook's second-in-command.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
Wyllie sees all that a historical painter's heart could desire: the many ships closely packed and varying in size and rigs, a temporary avenue of brilliant colors, with flags and bunting.
The HMS Landrail dominates the river procession which is led by the admiralty yacht Irene passing under the uplifted bascules of the new 244-meter Tower Bridge, almost a wonder of the world, whose construction began in 1886.
It is the gateway to the port of the capital city of the British Empire and the most industrially successful nation on Earth.
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HMS Ark Royal (91)HMS Ark Royal (R07)HMS Ark Royal (R09)
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 Legenda jménem Enterprise - I.část
Poté byla přejmenována na HMS Enterprise (někdy také HMS Enterprize) a za následující dva roky vystřídala dva kapitány (prvním byl jistý J. Paul, druhým W. Davenport) a účastnila se mnoha potyček ve Středozemí, zejména poblíž italského přístavu Leghorn (Livorno).
Loď HMS Enterprise spadala pod hlavičku "loď 6.třídy", jež britské námořnictvo využívalo jako malé a obratné válečné lodě.
První americkou lodí Enterprise se stala britská nákladní šalupa HMS George, jež byla zajata 18.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
The composition and tonality, including the shape of the Virgin´s dress, her wavy center-parted hair, shaded eyes, and chubby, curly- haired children appear throughout the body of his work.
Other members of the battery can be seen at their posts and in the foreground, several are in positions of repose facing the viewer.
On 18 October 1854 Peel was at the siege of Sebastopol and his was the first act of bravery that would lead to awarding of VCs for him and his ADC Edward St. John Daniel in the first list of citations.
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 ART / 4 / 2DAY
The tenor of Vanessa Bell's art was altered by the tragic loss of her son Julian in the Spanish Civil War.
Leda and the Swan (1600, 64x80cm; 820x1000pix, 389kb _ ZOOM to 1857x2265pix, 1322kb)
When Krimmel moved to Philadelphia in 1809, where at first he supported himself as a portrait and miniature painter but quickly developed a penchant for chronicling events in the city and its environs.
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 Name Histories C
Name Origin: In Greek mythology one of the Dioscuri, the twin brother of Pollux, and son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda.
The next few years were spent in harassing the enemy’s coasts; a prominent incident being his defence of a half ruined fort at Rosas with a handful of British and Spanish sailors.
After a brief interval in Parliament he was, in April 1809, selected to destroy with fire ships a French squadron blockaded by Lord Gambier in Aix roads.
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From 1808 to 1809, the 1st were fighting at the Battle of Corunna in 1809, before being withdrawn by sea and sent to the Walcheren Campaign with the 1st Division.
It was used by an officer on a 38 or 46 gun Frigate [Leda Class] such as HMS Unicorn or HMS Shannon.
HMS Shannon was launched in 1806 in Frindsbury, Kent.
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 HMS Leda (1809) - Wiktionary
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 The Hamiltons: 2. Sir John Hamilton
On Sunday 29 March, at eight o’clock in the morning, the ships, H.M.S. Jupiter, H.M.S. Phaeton and the two cutters, weighed anchor and, with a fair wind from the northeast proceeded to England.
He was in the Royal Navy on HMS Union for one year before entering the East India Company's service[221].
He had been appointed additional master of HMS Ocean, also based at Sheerness, on 18 July 1838, but again the Admiralty directed him to remain with the Packet Service at Dover[279].
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