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The Colt Revolving Belt Pistol or Navy Pistol, sometimes erroneously referred to as "Colt Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber" or "of Navy Caliber" (Naval is heavy gun and Navy Size Caliber was termed later for another Colt model), is a .36 caliber, six-round cap and ball revolver that was designed by Samuel Colt between 1847 and 1850.
Kingston Navy Yard, Ontario: 22 September 1842: Sold to Messrs. Campbell, Forsyth, Yarwood & Gaskin on 30 October 1851 Magnet: Hamilton, Canada: 1846: The British Government made a part payment while during build, retaining the right to assume possession of the vessel on payment of the remaining portion. The right was relinquished in 1864 HMS ...
James, the second of the three, born in 1774, entered the navy in 1787, and, having served in several different ships on the home station, was in January 1793 appointed to the Bedford of 74 guns, in which he went to the Mediterranean; was landed at Toulon, with the small-arm men, and was present in the actions of 14 March and 13 July 1795.
HMS Miranda was a 14-gun (15-gun from 1856) wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy.As part of the 1847 Program, she was designed by John Fincham, Master Shipwright of Portsmouth, and is considered an improved Rattler, with the design approved on 3 November 1847.
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1851 Naval Air Squadron (1851 NAS) was a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN), which last disbanded in 1946. It formed in the United States at RN Air Section Brunswick as a fighter squadron, in September 1944 and embarked on HMS Thane at the end of the year for transportation to the UK, arriving at Belfast.
The basic information is accurate according to the available sources (listed) but I suspect the article could benefit from some expansion I started this page (Colt 1851 Navy Revolver) because no such page has been created and there was at least one request for it. --Mcumpston 15:19, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
HMS Highflyer was a 21-gun wooden screw frigate (later re-designated a corvette) of the Royal Navy. She was built on the River Thames by C J Mare and launched on 13 August 1851. She spent twenty years in service, including action in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War, before being broken up at Portsmouth in May 1871.