The carronade was initially very successful and widely adopted, and a few experimental ships ( for example, HMS Glatton and HMS Rainbow ) were fitted with a carronade-only armament.

Later on July 8, 1777, however, the Hancock was captured by HMS Rainbow of a pursuing squadron, and became the British man of war Iris.

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* HMS Rainbow and HMS Ganymede-two corvettes ( joined by HMS Briseis )

The native name for the island is Minjerribah but in 1827 Captain Henry John Rous, who had the title of Viscount Dunwich, commander of HMS Rainbow the first British ship of war to enter Moreton Bay, named the island after his father the Earl of Stradbroke, the town after his title, the entrance channel after himself and even gave his boat a guernsey with the naming of Rainbow Beach.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would " dread nought ", i. e. " fear nothing, but God ".

* HMS Iron Duke named after Wellington, is the name of three ships in the Royal Navy, one of which is still in active service ( a frigate )

* HMS Psyche, one of various British naval ships

* HMS Seal, two Royal Navy ships and one submarine

* HMS Sabrina, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, and one proposed one

The spacecraft takes its name from four British ships of exploration named Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery, one of the ships commanded by Captain James Cook during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779.

* HMS Discovery, one of the ships which took Captain George Nares ' British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 1876 to the North Pole ; and

* HMS Waterloo, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy, and one planned one

* February 6 – The ship Topaz ( from Boston April 5, 1807 hunting seals ) rediscovers the Pitcairn Islands ; only one HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive, Alexander Smith ( John Adams ).

* HMS Pilot, one of four ships of the British Royal Navy

On 14 May 1741, Byron's ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors decided to split in two teams, one to make its way by boat to Rio de Janeiro, the other, John Byron's, to sail North and meet Spaniards.

* HMS Sandwich, the name of six ships of the Royal Navy, and one planned one

* HMS Bridgewater, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, and one of the Commonwealth of England

* HMS Harlequin, one of various ships

It was originally to be released as a two-part film, one named The Lawbreakers that dealt with the voyage out to Tahiti and the subsequent mutiny, and the second named The Long Arm that studied the journey of the mutineers after the mutiny, as well as the admiralty's response in sending out the frigate HMS Pandora and her famous box in which some of the mutineers were imprisoned.

* HMS Toronto, the name of three Royal Navy ships, and one planned one

The borough is the location of international-standard museums and galleries ; the Imperial War Museum and its outpost HMS Belfast moored at the Pool, Dulwich Picture Gallery the oldest public gallery in Britain, and one of the most modern, the Tate Modern.

* HMS Seaford, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, and one planned one

Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.

* HMS Canopus, two ships of the Royal Navy

The Summary Report of the HMS Challenger expedition lists radiolaria from the two dredged samples taken when the Challenger Deep was first discovered.

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.

* 1812 – War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: and HMS Caledonia.

The British Royal Navy initiated Operation Rheostat and Task Group 65. 2 provided the RN Minehunters, HMS Maxton, HMS Bossington, HMS Wilton and HMS Abdiel, a Practice Minelayer / MCMV Support Ship which spent two periods of 6 months in 1974 and in 1975 based at Ismailia.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.

The most significant military ship sunk by a torpedo boat during WWII was the cruiser HMS Manchester which was sunk by two Italian torpedo boat ( M. S.

* HMS Duke of Wellington, at least two ships

* October 9 – War of 1812: American naval forces under Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliott capture two British warships, and HMS Caledonia.

* HMS Romulus, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy

These joined two other air stations already operating on Bermuda, the pre-war civil airport on Darrell's Island, which had been taken over by the RAF, and the Fleet Air Arm's Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Malabar, on Boaz Island.

During the North Cape raid, the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau sank the British carrier HMS Glorious and two destroyers, but the damage that put those ships out of action for six months when they were needed for a possible invasion of Britain easily outweighed the loss of the Glorious.

The last Royal Navy Q-ship, 2, 456-ton HMS Fidelity ( D57 ), was converted in September, 1940, to carry a torpedo defense net, four 4-inch ( 10-cm ) guns, four torpedo tubes, two OS2U Kingfisher float planes, and Motor Torpedo Boat 105.

* HMS Burlington, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy

* HMS Oxford, two ships of the Royal Navy