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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.
Of the estimated 1,300 people aboard, nine survived; 260 bodies were washed ashore. 1,291 1564 Sweden: Mars – A Swedish warship that was sunk 18 kilometres north of Öland during the Northern Seven Years' War. The crown ship of King Eric XIV of Sweden's fleet. The gunpowder store exploded and as many as 1,000 people, including Swedes and the ...
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All three people in the car were killed in the resulting crash. Jerome Brown: 1965 1992 27 years American American football player car Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: Brooksville, Florida: Lost control of his car at high speed and hit a power pole. His nephew, a passenger in the car, was also killed. Jerry Brown: 1987 2012 25 years American football ...
Caledonia proved to be a very successful ship, and it was said that 'This fine three-decker rides easy at her anchors, carries her lee ports well, rolls and pitches quite easy, generally carries her helm half a turn a-weather, steers, works and stays remarkably well, is a weatherly ship, and lies-to very close.' She was 'allowed by all hands to ...
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 ...
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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.