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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 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.
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.
HMS Curacoa was a Comus-class corvette of the Royal Navy, built by John Elder & Co., Govan, launched in 1878, and sold in 1904 to be broken up. [2] She served on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa Station , the Australia Station and as a training cruiser in the Atlantic.
HMS Curacoa was a 31-gun Tribune-class screw frigate launched on 13 April 1854 from Pembroke Dockyard. [1] She served in the Mediterranean Station between 1854 until 1857 and was in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. She was part of the Channel Squadron between 1857 until 1859.
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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.
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