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Topic: HMS Leda 1828


  
  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.
The fifth Leda was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper 1909 and sold 1920.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/HMS_Leda   (160 words)

  
 History : HMS Clyde : Offshore Patrol Vessel (Helicopter) : Fishery Protection Squadron : Patrol Vessels : Surface ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first HMS Clyde was a 38-gun frigate of the ‘Artois/Apollo’ Class, built at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in March 1796.
The most recent HMS Clyde was a ‘Thames’ Class submarine, built at Barrow by Vickers Armstrong and launched in March 1934.
As built, HMS Clyde measured 1805 tons standard displacement, 2680 tons submerged and was 345 ft. long over all.  From 1936 she served in the Mediterranean until the outbreak of war in 1939 when she patrolled the South Atlantic and home waters.
www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server?show=nav.5957&outputFormat=print   (178 words)

  
  Naval Dockyard, Mumbai
HMS Cornwallis : Built in the year 1813, this is the ship on which the historic Treaty of Nanking, ceding Hong Kong to the British, was signed.
HMS Trincomalee : A Napoleonic, triple-masted, 38-gun, 1447-tons, Leda class frigate, was built on 12 October 1817 of Malabar teak.
HMS Asia : Built in 1824 for the Royal Navy, this 84 gun, 2nd Rate was the flagship of Admiral Codrington at the Battle of Navarino in 1843, the last Naval battle fought wholly under sail
www.indiannavy.nic.in /dock_mumbai/national_heritage.htm   (1384 words)

  
  HMS Leda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The second Leda was a 38-gun 5th rate launched 1800 and wrecked 1808.
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.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_leda.html   (144 words)

  
 HMS Leda
The first Leda was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1783 and foundered 1796.
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.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_leda.html   (121 words)

  
 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.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/hms_leda.htm   (214 words)

  
 Busk's Navies of the World - 1859 - Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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'.
thomo.coldie.net /hole_html/britain_1859.html   (5301 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She probably belongs to the Leda class as gun ports can be seen on the Quarter Deck and Forecastle, whilst most other frigates only carried guns on the quarterdeck.
Leda class ships were about 150 ft. long, rated 1052 tons and carried a crew of 284 men.
In Patrick O'Brian's novels, HMS Surprise was a frigate of this class.
www.artmarine.co.uk /CL_MoreInfo.asp?Basket=&page=&intArtworkID=164   (163 words)

  
 Royal Naval Cruisers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
H Hawkes, Commander R.N. HM Brig Camilla was lost in a typhoon in the China seas on her voyage to Japan, 1860.
In the four or five years since leaving Plymouth, it is likely that at least some of the officers would have left the ship in one way or another - we know from the obituary for example that Commander Colville himself Captained HMS Niger before returning to HMS Camilla during this time.
The distressing loss of her Majesty's ship Camilla, with all hands on board, in a typhoon off the coast of Japan, is already known to the public.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /cruisers.htm   (751 words)

  
 Penwith District Council - Boatwatch
The Minisrty of defence Police Marine Unit at Devonport was formed in 1828.
The men who specialised in this task lived on board an old 1777 ton hulk called HMS Leda, formerly a fith rate forty-six gun ship placed off Morice Yard.
The men were required to row one complete patrol of the harbour during a shift.
www.penwith.gov.uk /index.cfm?Articleid=17384   (454 words)

  
 The Modelshipwrights web site
British 2nd rate 90-98 gun ship Duke of 1777
English 1st rate 110 gun ship Royal Adelaide of 1828
British 5th rate 36 gun ship Leda or Phoenix o1783
www.modelshipwrights.net /Rogers_Collection.htm   (233 words)

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