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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.
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 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 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.
LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard, the fastest steam locomotive ever, reaching 126 miles per hour (203 km/h) Grumman G-73 Mallard, an amphibious aircraft of the late 1940s; Advanced Aeromarine Mallard, an aircraft; HMS Mallard, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy; USS Mallard, either of two United States naval ships
Traditionally, a warship's armor system was designed both separately from, and after, the design layout. The design and location of various component subsystems (propulsion, steering, fuel storage and management, communications, range-finding, etc.) were laid out and designed in a manner that presented the most efficient and economical utilization of the hull's displacement.
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
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