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  • have borne the name HMS Sulphur: HMS Sulphur (1778) was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1778 and sold in 1783. HMS Sulphur (1797) was an 8-gun bomb vessel...
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  • HMS Cracker was an Acute-class gunbrig, launched in 1797. She was sold in 1802. Lieutenant Thomas Aitkinson commissioned Cracker in May 1797. On 28 August...
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    Round the World in HMS Sulphur. (two volumes, 1843) (Volume 1, Volume 2); R.B. Hinds (editor), "The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Sulphur" (two volumes, 1843–1844)...
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    December and HMS Jason captured the transport Suffren shortly afterwards, although the French frigate Tartu recaptured Suffren. On 5 January 1797 Polyphemus...
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  • Swan River Colony. 12 August – Mrs Helen Dance, wife of the captain of HMS Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the foundation of the town of Perth, Western...
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    merchant Duncan Campbell. HMS Ceres 1787–1797 Woolwich Ceres was a 32-gun Fifth-rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1830. HMS Chatham 1793–1805 Plymouth...
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  • in Cockburn Sound on 2 June carrying Stirling and his party,: 11  and HMS Sulphur arrived on 8 June carrying members of the 63rd Regiment and families...
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    HMS Mediator was a Roebuck-class 44-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was built and served during the American War of Independence, but was reduced...
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  • moved to HMS Hornet, a 16-gun sloop, under Robert Larkan. He went with Larkan to the latter's new command, the 20-gun HMS Camilla, in September 1797. In 1799...
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  • disappeared with the rest of the crew of HMS Ardent in 1794, believed lost to a fire and explosion. 31 January 1797 William Mulso Unknown Location unknown...
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  • ascended. August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of Perth, Western...
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  • Mignon, Thomas, 1866 The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1885 The Mines of Sulphur, Bennett, 1963 The Miserly Knight, Rachmaninoff, 1906 Miss Julie, Rorem...
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    pots in 1837, leading to a manure formed by treating phosphates with sulphuric acid; this was to be the first product of the nascent artificial manure...
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    Haitian Revolution (category 1797 in the Caribbean)
    killing hundreds of Haitians in the holds of ships by burning sulphur to make sulphur dioxide to gas them. For a few months, the island was quiet under...
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    (cancelled in 1833) Vulcan (1797) Volcano (1797) Explosion (1797) Hecla (1797) Strombolo (1797) Sulphur (1797) Tartarus (1797) Aetna (1803) Acheron (1803)...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Cerberus (1794)
    HMS Cerberus was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean...
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  • in El Salvador results in large fractures, liquefaction zones, and a sulphuric gas leak. It destroys houses, churches and monasteries. March 17 – The...
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    resources, and commercial prospects : Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions. London and New York: Macmillan...
    110 KB (13,837 words) - 18:06, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Greyhound (1780)
    HMS Greyhound was a cutter that the British Admiralty purchased in 1780 and renamed Viper in 1781. Viper captured several French privateers in the waters...
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    resources, and commercial prospects: Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions. London and New York: Macmillan...
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