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HMS Dolphin (1781) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1817. HMS Dolphin (1799) was originally the Dutch 24-gun Dolflin, launched in 1780 at the Amsterdam naval yard, which HMS Wolverine and HMS Arrow captured at Vlie Island in 1799. She became a transport in 1800, a storeship in 1802, and was broken up in 1803.
HMS Dolphin was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1751, she was used as a survey ship from 1764 and made two circumnavigations of the world under the successive commands of John Byron and Samuel Wallis .
HMS Dolphin closed as a submarine base on 30 September 1998, [7] although the last RN submarine permanently based at Gosport was HMS Opossum which had left five years earlier in 1993. [8] The Royal Navy Submarine School (RNSMS) remained at Dolphin until 23 December 1999 when it closed prior to relocation to HMS Raleigh at Torpoint in Cornwall.
HMS Dolphin was 10-gun cutter that served the Royal Navy from 1793 to 1802, first as a hired armed cutter, and then after the Navy purchased her, as HMS Dolphin.During her almost decade of service Dolphin patrolled the English Channel protecting British trade by capturing French privateers and recapturing their prizes.
HMS Dolphin was the 12-gun American privateer schooner Dolphin that Admiral John Borlase Warren's squadron captured on 13 April 1813 and that the Royal Navy took into service. As HMS Dolphin she participated in boat actions on 29 April and 5 May 1813 for which the Admiralty issued a clasp for the Naval General Service Medal. Her ultimate fate ...
HMS Dolphin was a 44-gun fifth rate ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1781. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she carried her armament on two decks and had a main battery of 18-pound long guns. She made an appearance at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1781. The rest of her 36-year career was uneventful, much of it being spent as a transport or ...
HMS Dolphin was a screw sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy launched in 1882, used as school ship, and finally broken up in 1977. Service history
HMS Dolphin was a 3-gun packet brigantine ship of the Royal Navy, launched in 1836. Dolphin during the action of Point Obligado in 1846. She participated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado. It was decommissioned in 1861 and sold in 1894. [1] [2] [3] Dolphin firing at a slaver off the coast of Africa, by H. John Vernon, a print, c. 1853