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HMS Curacoa was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was one of the five ships of the Ceres sub-class and spent much of her career as a flagship . The ship was assigned to the Harwich Force during the war, but saw little action as she was completed less than a year before the war ended.
HMS Curacoa (1809), a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1809. She was reduced to 24 guns in 1831 and broken up in 1849. HMS Curacoa (1854), a wood screw frigate launched in 1854. She was flagship of the Australia Station during the New Zealand Wars and was broken up in 1869. HMS Curacoa (1878), a screw corvette launched in 1878 and sold in 1904.
British Cemetery Montevideo Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen contains information about servicemen of different nationalities whose tombs can be found within the Cemetery. A few of the ships mentioned are well known to the general public, such as STV Royston Grange or HMNZS Achilles, which fought in the Battle of the River Plate.
A detailed survey of the New Zealand coast was essential for economic development and in 1848 HMS Acheron, a steam paddle sloop, began the "Great Survey". HMS Pandora took over and continued until 1856, when the harbours and most of the coast had been freshly surveyed. In the 1890s until 1905, HMS Penguin updated the surveys. [13]
HMS Curacoa was a fifth-rate 36-gun sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. Ordered in October 1806 and launched in September 1809, she was one of a new series of Apollo-class frigates designed by Sir William Rule in 1798.
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Herbert William Sumner Gibson was an officer of the Royal Navy, who served in the Australia Station.He was the son of Bishop Edgar Gibson.As captain of the corvette HMS Curacoa he was sent to the Ellice Islands to make a formal declaration that the islands were to be a British Protectorate, which occurred between 9 and 16 October 1892.