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He was made a midshipman on the wooden, steam, fully rigged frigate HMS Newcastle in September 1874.
In 1814 its residents repelled an invasion of British marines from the HMS Newcastle.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Newcastle, after the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne:
* HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship launched in 1653.
* HMS Newcastle was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1704, rebuilt in 1733 and broken up in 1746.
* HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1750.
* HMS Newcastle was a 60-gun fourth rate launched 1813.
* HMS Newcastle was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1909 and sold in 1921, being broken up in 1923.
* HMS Newcastle was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1937.
* HMS Newcastle was a Type 42 ( Batch 1 ) destroyer launched in 1975 and decommissioned in 2005 and placed into inactive reserve.
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She was renamed HMS Newcastle before her launch in 1936.
Based at Freetown, Dorsetshire worked with the cruisers HMS Newcastle and later HMS Dunedin and HMS Devonshire.
** HMS Newcastle Type 42 destroyer.
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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 screw
Trials with Smith's SS Archimedes, the first steam driven screw, led to the famous tug-of-war competition in 1845 between the screw-driven HMS Rattler and the paddle steamer HMS Alecto ; the former pulling the latter backward at 2. 5 knots ( 4. 6 km / h ).
* HMS Enterprise was to have been a wooden screw sloop.
* HMS Galatea ( 1859 ) was a wooden screw frigate launched in 1859 and broken up 1883.
He returned to Britain and in September 1848 was made superintendent of the Royal Naval Dockyards at Woolwich and then in March 1849 was given his final sea command, the screw frigate HMS Arrogant.
* A screw driven 91-gun second rate ship of the line was ordered in 1860 under the name HMS Blake, but construction was cancelled in 1863.
* HMS Ardent was to have been a wooden screw sloop, but she was renamed before her launch in 1843.
* HMS Captain was to have been an iron screw ship, but the name was changed and she was launched as HMS Agincourt in 1865.
* HMS Liverpool was a fourth-rate screw frigate launched in 1860 and sold in 1875.
* HMS Bulwark was to have been an 81-gun screw propelled Bulwark class second rate.
Mason and Slidell were released from Fort Warren and boarded the Royal Navy screw sloop HMS Rinaldo at Provincetown, Massachusetts.
* HMS Revenge was a 91-gun screw powered second rate launched in 1859.
* was a wooden Eclipse-class screw corvette launched in 1869, hulked in 1886, renamed HMS Actaeon in 1906 and sold in 1922.
* HMS Dryad was a screw frigate laid down in 1860 but cancelled in 1864.
* HMS Dryad was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1866 and broken up twenty years later.
* HMS Serapis was an iron screw Euphrates-class troopship in service from 1866 to 1894.
* HMS Hornet, a wood screw sloop, initially ordered as a schooner, launched in 1854 and broken up in 1868.
* HMS Hornet, a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1868 and sold in 1899.
* HMS Mohawk was a Vigilant-class wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856.
** HMS Gannet, an screw sloop, launched in 1878 and renamed HMS President in 1903.
** HMS Buzzard, a Nymphe-class screw sloop launched in 1887 and renamed HMS President in 1911.

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