The HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner, seized cargo from a sloop owned by Nathanael Greene, future second-in-command of the Continental Army. The Gaspee's officers claimed the cargo was smuggled, ...
Martin Longhurst contacted me about his late father Herbert who served in the sloop HMS Egret, said to be the first ship sunk by a guided missile, and this was in 1943. Did you know with a Digital ...
1815 - The sloop-of-war USS Hornet captures the brig sloop HMS Penguin after a 22 minute battle, with neither ship aware the War of 1812 is over. 1882 - Secretary of the Navy William H. Hunt (Jan. 7, ...
The HMS Veronica leaves Port Ahuriri under tow on February 10, 1931. Its sailors played a key part in the quake aftermath. Photo / Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries Eighty-seven ...
Martin Longhurst contacted me about his late father Herbert who served in the sloop HMS Egret, said to be the first ship sunk by a guided missile, and this was in 1943. Did you know with a Digital ...
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