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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. She was the first ship to circumnavigate the world twice. She remained in service until she was paid off in September ...
HMS Dolphin (1731), launched in 1731, was a 20-gun post ship, renamed Firebrand in 1755 and Penguin in 1757. HMS Dolphin (1751), launched in 1751, was a 24-gun post ship. She was used as a survey ship from 1764 and made two circumnavigations under the command of John Byron and Samuel Wallis. She was broken up in 1777.
All the vessels were armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of nine-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, a 40-gun ship with a main battery of 12-pounder guns superseded the 42-gun ship. Hence, the last six of the ships listed below were completed as 40-gun ships. HMS Ludlow Castle 1707 – broken up 1721
HMS Dolphin was the Dutch 7th Charter Dolfijn, launched in 1780 at Amsterdam. [1] In 1781 she was under the command of Captain Mulder when she participated in the battle of Dogger Bank. [4] HMS Wolverine and HMS Arrow captured her on 15 September 1799 off Vlie Island.
USS Dolphin AGSS-555, diesel-electric submarine launched in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007; PCF-816 (formerly C24 or P24), 1968 Patrol Craft Fast that was transferred to Malta in 1971 and decommissioned in 2011; San Salvador, a replica of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's galleon which was the first European ship to visit San Diego Bay in 1542. [4]
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.
Tartar was a 573-ton ship built in Philadelphia that set a sailing record of 77 days from Holyhead, Wales, to Bombay, India, in 1845 (April 4—June 19), captained by Benoni Lockwood III. [4]: 115 Sea Witch: 1846 United States (New York, NY) Wrecked in 1856 170.3 ft (51.9 m)
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.