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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 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 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 ...
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]
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 Mallard (1896) S. HMS Stag (1899) This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 21:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
HMS Mallard (L42) P. HMS Puffin (L52) S. HMS Shearwater (L39) This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 11:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
No real 74-gun ship existed any longer at the time of production (the last one, HMS Implacable, was scuttled in 1949), so HMS Justinian and HMS Renown had to be recreated as models. For the first series a quarter of a 74-gun ship (one exterior side and three open sides to shoot live action on several decks) called the pontoon was built.