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HMS Mallard (1801) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801. The French captured her after she ran aground in 1804. The French Navy converted her to a gunboat in 1811, renamed her Favori in 1814, Mallard in 1815, and then Favori again later in 1815. She was struck at Brest in 1827, but was a service craft there on 17 September 1831. HMS Mallard ...
HMS Mallard was a two funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1894 – 1895 Naval Estimates. She served in Home waters both before and during the First World War, and was sold for breaking in 1920.
HMS Mallard was one of two Kingfisher-class sloops ordered by the British Admiralty on 21 March 1935. [1] The Kingfishers were intended as coastal escorts, suitable for replacing the old ships used for fishery protection and anti-submarine warfare training in peacetime, while being suitable for mass production in wartime.
Designed by Nathaniel Barnaby, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, the Forester-class gunboats were similar in every respect to the preceding Ariel-class gunboats. [2] They were fitted with a 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine, although Moorhen and Sheldrake received a single-expansion direct-acting steam engine.
HMS Express in 1874, a Forester-class gunboat similar to HMS Mallard, which found the abandoned Resolven. The mystery of this ship earned it the nickname "The Welsh Mary Celeste". [3] [4] Struck with misfortune a second and final time, Resolven was wrecked in 1887 while returning to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia with a load of lumber. [5]
HMS Sirdar – British destroyer, The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean, 1957 (the actual HMS Sirdar was a submarine) Siren – yacht, A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse , 1919 Slewfoot – the crew's nickname for a PT boat whose number is never given, in Torpedo Run by Robb White , 1962
A. HMS Abdiel (1915) HMS Acasta (1912) Acasta-class destroyer; HMS Achates (1912) HMS Acheron (1911) HMS Acorn (1910) HMS Afridi (1907) HMS Alarm (1910)
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