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  2. HMS Caledonia - Wikipedia

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    HMS Caledonia (1807) was a 3-gun brig launched in 1807. She was captured by the Americans in 1812, and put into service as USS Caledonia (1812). HMS Caledonia (1808) was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line launched in 1808. She became a hospital ship and was renamed HMS Dreadnought in 1856 and was broken up in 1875.

  3. HMS Caledonia (shore establishment) - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, following the decommissioning and privatisation of the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth, MoD Caledonia was opened on the site of the former dockyard. [6] [7] [8] Following the Options for Change review and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the reserve unit HMS Scotia was moved from Pitreavie Castle to HMS Caledonia, where it has been based ...

  4. List of ships captured in the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    Caledonia was a brig, formerly HMS Caledonia, captured by the U.S. Navy, during the War of 1812 and taken into American service. Commanded by Lieutenant D. Turner the brig played an important role with the American squadron on Lake Erie; sold at the end of the war. [91] HMS Frolic [Note 12] | Royal Navy | 8 October 1812

  5. Wreck believed to be warship that sank with over 500 sailors ...

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    The HMS Hawke was torpedoed by a German U-boat on Oct. 15, 1914. ... A group of divers working off the coast of Scotland found the wreck of what's believed to be a World War I ship that sank with ...

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  7. Caledonia (ship) - Wikipedia

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    RMS Caledonia (1925) was a 17,046-ton British passenger ship built for the Anchor Line by Alexander Stephen and Sons at Glasgow, Scotland, and was launched on 21 April 1925. In 1939 she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser and renamed to HMS Scotstoun. A German submarine sank her on 13 June 1940.

  8. HMS Caledonia (1808) - Wikipedia

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    The Admiralty orders for Caledonia ' s construction were issued in November 1794, for a 100-gun vessel measuring approximately 2,600 tons burthen. There were considerable delays in obtaining dockyard facilities and in assembling a workforce, and actual building did not commence until 1805 when the keel was laid down at Plymouth Dockyard .

  9. PS Caledonia (1934) - Wikipedia

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    Restaurant ship Old Caledonia 1973 in London. PS Caledonia was a paddle steamer built in 1934. She principally provided an Upper Clyde ferry service, later moving to Ayr and then Craigendoran. [citation needed] During the Second World War, she served in the Royal Navy as a minesweeper and then an auxiliary anti-aircraft ship under the name HMS ...