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	HMS Terror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sixth Terror was a bomb vessel of 10 guns, launched in 1813, and converted to a discovery vessel in 1836.
		This Terror was one of the ships involved in the bombardment of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.
		HMS Terror was also the name of a shore base in Singapore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Terror (275 words)

	HMS Terror (1813) - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		HMS Terror was a bomb vessel designed by Sir Henry Peake and constructed by the Royal Navy in the Davy shipyard in Topsham, Devon.
		Terror was repaired and next assigned to a voyage to the Antarctic in company with HMS Erebus under the overall command of James Clark Ross.
		Erebus and Terror were both outfitted with 20hp steam engines for their next voyage to the Arctic, with Sir John Franklin in overall command of the expedition in Erebus, and Terror again under the command of Crozier.
	hmsterror1813.quickseek.com (388 words)

	Facts about hms bulwark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The second HMS Bulwark was a 74-gun frigate that took part in the blockade of Rochefort in 1813 and fought in the British-American War in 1814-15.
		The fourth HMS Bulwark was a wooden 121-gun ship-of-the-line launched on 7th March 1860 at Pembroke.
		In 1960, HMS Bulwark was recommissioned with 42 Commando, Royal Marine and 848 Squadron attached to the carrier.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/hms_bulwark.html (890 words)

	wooden model ships
		In 1801, she was Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship prior to the Battle of Copenhagen; he transferred his flag to HMS Elephant, whose lighter draft enabled him to sail closer inshore for the bombardment of the Danish capital on April 2.
		The British Battleship HMS Warrior never fired a shot in anger and never blockaded a hostile port, yet she played a famous part in naval history.
		Terror saw war service in the the 1st Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and War of 1812 against the United States.
	modelshipmaster.com /products/tall_ships (3483 words)

	Ship's from the Age of Sail database listing
		HMS Bee is one of the supply schooner, together with HMS Mosquito and HMS Wasp, that were stationed at the Penetanguishene Naval base from 1817 to 1831.
		HMS Discovery Ship Resolute was one of the vessels sent out in 1850 and 1852 to search for the missing arctic exploration ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
		She was captured and taken as a prize in October 1762 by the 60-gun HMS Panther and the 28-gun frigate Argo.
	www.ageofsail.net /aosshipa.asp (7241 words)

	war of 1812 information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On June 1, 1813, the frigate USS Chesapeake was captured by the British frigate HMS Shannon, a vessel of equal size, as it attempted to leave Boston Harbor, and this somewhat counterbalanced the moral effect of previous disasters.
		On April 27, 1813 the Americans took York (now Toronto; see: Battle of York), and in May moved on Fort George; but a counter-attack by Yeo and Prevost on Sackett's Harbour, on May 29, having made the Americans anxious about the safety of their base, naval support failed the American generals, and they were paralysed.
		The burning by the American general McClure, on December 10, 1813, of Newark (Niagara on the Lake), for which severe retaliation was taken at Buffalo, was made the excuse for much destruction.
	www.war-against-terror.net /war-of-1812.htm (4569 words)

	Irish-Canadian Franklin Search Expedition, 2004
		HMS Fury was ground to a pulp by the ice over the rocks of the Somerset Island beach that bears its name.
		And one ship, either HMS Terror or Erebus, was probably crushed in the ice off Cape Frances Crozier, its remains scattered beneath a permanently advancing cover of ice.
		Terror was laid down to the Vesuvius Class specifications in 1812, while Erebus was launched in 1826 to the Hecla Class specifications of 1813.
	www.ric.edu /rpotter/woodman/2004_Field_Report_short.htm (3771 words)

	HMS Terror: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The first five Terrors were small bomb vessel A bomb ketch was a type of wooden sailing ship with two masts....
		The eighth Terror (I03) was a 12-gun Erebus-class monitor Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
		HMS Terror was also the name of a shore base in Singapore A country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /h/hms_terror2 (505 words)

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		At 1438 the same day, U-155 had unsuccessfully attacked the Rozewie with 20 rounds from the deck gun, but was forced to break off the attack when the ship returned fire with her armament of one 152-mm gun and three machine guns.
		Although CDR Stubbs received a DSO for his part in the action, his decision to ram was based on the erroneous notion that is was better to destroy a U-boat than to ensure the safe arrival of the convoy.
		HMS Tartar, HMS Ashanti, HMCS Haida and HMCS Iroquois maneuvered to a favorable position and attacked, sinking six of the seven ships, including the escort.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/august/06Aug.txt (1217 words)

	Naval Science 2, Maritime History, Chapter 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When the British ship HMS Chesapeake raided a number of New England towns for supplies.
		The battle between the USS Enterprise and HMS Intrepid.
		The battle between the USS Constellation and the HMS Courage.
	www.njrotc.org /NS2/History/HistoryCh3.htm (1416 words)

	SHIPWRECKS ON THE AUSTRALIA RUN
		As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, as distinct from another vessel of the same name already in service.
		HMS Brisk searched the Chatham Islands for two boats containing Captain Yule and most of the passengers and crew but no trace of them was ever found.
		After all had landed safely on Eagle Island a small boat was constructed from one of her damaged boats, and in it several crew members reached the River Plate (Riva de la Plata, east coast, Argentina).
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /austrun-wrecks.html (19872 words)

	Timeline Great Britain 1800-1859 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		1813 Jan 4, Isaac Pitman, inventor (stenographic shorthand), was born in Britain.
		1813 Jun 1, The U.S. Navy gained its motto as the mortally wounded commander of the U.S. frigate "Chesapeake", Captain James Lawrence was heard to say, "Don't give up the ship!", during a losing battle with a British frigate "Shannon"; his ship was captured by the British frigate.
		1813 Oct 5, The Battle of Moraviantown was decisive in the War of 1812.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/GB_D_1800_1859.HTML (15096 words)

	The Lurker Lounge Forums > I object: Bring Back "The Ranger"!
		It is instructive that the US went away from aluminum and back to steel in the recent Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers.
		HMS Victory gives 186 ft (lower gundeck) which gives a potential 19 knots hull speed.
		During the War of 1812, while blockaded in the Elizabeth River, she participated in the battle of Craney Island, helping to defend Norfolk, Virginia from capture by the British in 1813.
	www.lurkerlounge.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t1358-50.html (2803 words)

	Biography of Admiral William Smyth
		Smyth passed his lieutenant’s examination in 1819 and served as a passed midshipman and mate including on the Blossom under Frederick Beechey in the Pacific, 1825 –28, until commissioned lieutenant during that voyage, in May 1827.
		From May 1836, he was senior lieutenant of the Terror on Captain George Back’s North-West Passage expedition to the Wager River.
		His views on Back’s expedition were lithographed to illustrate the official account and he became a lifelong Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society from about 1836–37.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuInDepth/Biography.cfm?biog=103 (374 words)

	Ross Island - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sir James Clark Ross discovered it in 1841, and the island was later named in honor of him by Robert F. Scott.
		The volcanoes Terror (3230 m) and Erebus (3794 m) are situated on the island.
		They were named by Ross after his ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
	rossisland.quickseek.com (277 words)

	H.M.S. ASTREA
		In December 1782 the ASTREA was cruising in company with her sister ship HMS QUEBEC, and the somewhat larger HMS DIOMEDE, a fourth-rate vessel built the same year as ASTREA.
		H.M.S. Two months later on the 22nd of June, while ASTREA was cruising with a fleet of 25 vessels commanded by Admiral Bridport on board the magnificent first-rate vessel ROYAL GEORGE, a French fleet consisting of 23 vessels was sighted.
		For a time we apprehended that our fate was inevitable, and that the Astrea was destined to leave her ribs on the shoal of Norway; but we were reserved for new, and still more alarming dangers, though, thank God, ultimately for safety.
	www.blytmann.com /astrea/astrea.htm (5029 words)

	Casebook: The War of 1812 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This line of barges was under the overall command of Captain Samuel J. Pechell, commander of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren's flagship HMS San Domingo.
		The other part of the attack was a British Army landing force under Colonel Sir Sidney Beckwith that landed west of the island and marched east to attack the island across a stretch of water known as the Thorofare.
		According to Mike Phillips' site, he was appointed captain of HMS Diadem, 64 guns, on the Halifax Station in 1813.
	warof1812.casebook.org /discus/messages/2/30.html?1031603997 (1158 words)

	Casebook: The War of 1812 - A Real Mix-up: Who Tried to Blow up HMS Plantagenet? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Spring 1813, the US Congress passed the Torpedo Act, offering rewards to any private citizen who succeeded in blowing up a British vessel.
		During the British blockade of New London, Connecticut, on June 25, 1813, a schooner loaded with explosives blew up next to the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Ramillies killing one British naval officer and ten Royal Navy seamen.
		This is the first and only time that he appears on the list, and he was furloughed at his own request of April 27, 1815 after the end of the war.
	warof1812.casebook.org /articles/dissertation.html?id=093e7558dc83bf923dad79c9348f23f6 (908 words)

	Louis Becke's "Deschard of Oneaka"
		living, not in dread of their wild native associates, but in secret terror of recapture by a man-of-war and a return to the horrors of that dreadful past.
		In 1856 the population of Pitcairn Island, descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty, was resettled on Norfolk.
		Commercial interest began with the discovery of sandalwood in the Fiji Islands group at the beginning of the 19th century, When the supply of sandalwood was depleted in Fiji by 1813, the traders then found it in Hawaii in the 1820s, in the New Hebrides in 1825, and in New Caledonia in 1840.
	www.trussel.com /kir/becke.htm (6461 words)

	Sea Kayak - History of the Chesapeake Bay
		During the second British raid in the Chesapeake in 1813, St. Michaels was attacked by the HMS Conflict and successfully defended by local militia and a clever ruse.
		In 1807 the British ship HMS Leopard demanded to board the U.S. frigate Chesapeake and muster her crew to search for deserters.
		In the spring of 1813, Admiral Cockburn commanding the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay, led a series of raids to the Upper Chesapeake Bay.
	www.seakayak.ws /kayak/kayak.nsf/5d8195eff840e1d08525711d006d2d46/d1db06394dee970985256b73004ce781!OpenDocument (1080 words)

	Timeline - Arctic
		The HMS Erebus and Terror sailed from England under Sir John Franklin to navigate through the Arctic and find the elusive Northwest passage.
		The ships Erebus and Terror of the Franklin Expedition to the Arctic were abandoned.
		A written record was found in 1859, indicating that Franklin died on June 11, 1847, and that Erebus and Terror were abandoned in April 1848.
	timelinesdb.com /listevents.php?subjid=6&title=Arctic (2028 words)

	Orkneyjar - Dr John Rae - Orkney's greatest unsung hero
		Although his memorial is prominent in St Magnus Cathedral, the truth is that, these daya, few Orcadians know of the man or his deeds.
		John Rae was born at the Hall o’ Clestrain in Orphir on September 30, 1813.
		Franklin's expedition was made up of two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and 134 men.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/historicalfigures/johnrae (1783 words)

	McMurdo Sound - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		McMurdo Sound is a sound about 55 km (35 mi) long and wide, lying at the junction of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf between Ross Island and Victoria Land.
		Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in February 1841 and named after Lt. Archibald McMurdo of HMS Terror.
		The United States's major Antarctic base, McMurdo Station, is located on Ross Island.
	mcmurdosound.quickseek.com (101 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Dr John Rae, Arctic Explorer
		John Rae was born in Orkney in 1813.
		Rae's geographical discovery was subsequently completely subsumed in the furore caused by his discovery of the outcome of Franklin and his men.
		The search for Franklin and his two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, began in 1848 after three years of silence.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A6566547 (2176 words)

	British Coastguards 1841-1891 - Personnel L-O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Children: Ellen and Elizabeth and Alfred J and Margaret, 1862 and 1864 and 1868 and 1870, all Cork, IRL; William J and Louisa and Francis J, 1874 and 1876 and 1878, P.O.B. not given.
		Ann, 1813 or 1816, Plymstock or Revelstoke or Plymouth, DEV.
		Children: Charles and Emily and John and Mary and Minnie and Ada and Alice, 1859 and 1861 and 1863 and 1864 and 1865 and 1867 and 1869, all Bawdsey, SFK; William, 1871, St James, Isle of Grain, KEN. Mother: Mary Loosemore, 1800, Bembridge, IOW.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/Coastguards/L-O.html (9590 words)

	A Merged History of Canada and The United States: Page 5, 1800-1849 - ExploreNorth
		During 1813 the British fleet was annihilated on Lake Erie, and Detroit was re-captured by the Americans.
		Also caught in the frey and killed were Lt. Barnard and a crew of 12 British marines of the HMS Enterprise.
		He departed from England in command of 129 men aboard two vessels, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/history/bl-bjones3-18a.htm (1377 words)

	The New Editor - Entries from December 2005
		In 1813 the British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
		What the Times didn't bother telling its readers is that this practice is far from new and is entirely legal.
		But leading spokesmen for American liberalism-hostile beyond reason to the Bush administration, and ready to believe the worst about American public servants-seem to have concluded that the terror threat is mostly imaginary.
	www.theneweditor.com /index.php?/archives/2005/12.html (6687 words)

	SONAHHR: Society of North American Hockey Historians and Researchers
		Some went as far as to write and publish their own versions of the so-called "official rules" in order to aid in their questionable declarations.
		In 1805, he fought in the Battle of Trafalgar against Napoleon Bonaparte's France, serving as a signal-midshipman on the HMS Bellerphon.
		Leaving Greenhithe, England on May 19, 1845 he set sail for the Canadian Arctic with two ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, a crew of 143 men, and enough provisions for three years.
	www.sonahhr.com /sonahhr/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.history&chapter=8 (7754 words)

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		Square off against the usurpers, pillage and plunder your way across the seas, and terrorize the coastal cities into submission as you rebuild the reign of fear.
		Land of Legends is a turn-based fantasy strategy game where eight unique races vie for supremacy using a combination of cold steel and hot magic.
		In Galaxy Unfurled, the fate of the galaxy and all the space-faring civilizations hang in the balance as the threat of interstellar war grows imminent.
	www.demonews.com /download.php?id=20&sort=8 (1256 words)

	The Hall of Clestrain - Orkney Boat Museum - Dr John Rae
		Born on the 30th of September 1813, at the Hall of Clestrain, Orphir, in Orkney, John Rae was the fourth son of John Rae (Senior) and Margaret Campbell Rae.
		John Rae's father was the factor of Sir William Honeyman's Orkney estate and also an agent, recruiting local Orkney men for the Hudson's Bay Company - the hugely influential and profitable trading company covering the northern territories of Canada at that time.
		Rae adapted well to the harsh conditions of the region by adopting their survival methods and he became an expert canoeist, hunted and fished, and learned how to live off the land - he also became an expert in snowshoeing.
	www.spacemonkeylab.com /clestrain/history/john_rae.php (957 words)

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