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* HMS Colossus was an 80-gun second rate ship of the line launched in 1848.
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HMS and Colossus
He joined HMS Colossus in April 1886 and was then in charge of the HMS Excellent experimental department from 6 December 1886 to 10 May 1888.
* HMS Colossus, ships of the UK Royal Navy
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Colossus:
* HMS Colossus was a 74-gun Courageux class third rate ship of the line launched in 1787 and wrecked in 1798.
* HMS Colossus was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1803.
* HMS Colossus was a Colossus class battleship launched in 1882 and sold in 1908.
* HMS Colossus was a Colossus class dreadnought battleship launched in 1910.
* HMS Colossus was a Colossus class light aircraft carrier launched in 1943.
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* was a Colossus class battleship, built as HMS Majestic, but renamed two days before being launched in 1882.
* HMS Colossus: 24 Corsairs, 18 Barracudas
* HMS Majestic was to have been a Colossus class battleship.
HMS and was
In 1778 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.
Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.
* The battle was used as the name of several Royal Navy ships, HMS Ramillies.
The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.
Troubridge's ship HMS Culloden was also some distance from the main body, towing a captured merchant ship.
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
Peuple Souverain also remained at Gibraltar: the ship was deemed too badly damaged for the Atlantic voyage to Britain and so was converted to a guardship under the name of HMS Guerrier.
Tonnant and Spartiate, both of which later fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, joined the Royal Navy under their old names while Franklin, considered to be " the finest two-decked ship in the world ", was renamed HMS Canopus.
In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.
The reburial was attended by sailors from the modern frigate HMS Chatham and a band from the Egyptian Navy, as well as a descendant of the only identified burial, Commander James Russell.
As a precaution to protect the ships against any reprisals against their crews, HMS Wyandra was transferred to the Mediterranean, and took the name of sister ship Manica, while Baralongs name was deleted from Lloyd's Register.
In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.
The Summary Report of the HMS Challenger expedition lists radiolaria from the two dredged samples taken when the Challenger Deep was first discovered.
The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.
Beatty was instead appointed to HMS Alexandra, flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron commanded by Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh's, Queen Victoria's second son.
He was transferred to HMS Cruiser.
On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.
In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.
HMS and 80-gun
* HMS Lion was an 80-gun second rate launched in 1847.
* HMS Superb was an 80-gun second rate, launched in 1842 and broken up in 1869.
* The third HMS Goliath ( 1842 ) was an 80-gun ship of the line, built in 1842.
Vashon commanded a series of ships during the period from 1789 to 1804 including the 64-gun ships,,, and the 80-gun HMS Pompee.
Commanding the 80-gun Formidable, Troude chose to let his quickest opponent, the 74-gun HMS Venerable, catch him up ; Venerable ended up so badly battered that the rest of the British had to abandon the chase to save her, allowing the Formidable to escape.
* HMS Tiger was an 80-gun second rate captured from the French in 1795.
* HMS Bellerophon was an 80-gun third rate, originally named HMS Talavera but renamed before her launch in 1818.
* HMS Torbay, an 80-gun second rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1719 and broken up in 1749.
* HMS Canopus 80-gun third-rate ( Flag-Captain F. W.
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