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HMS Elk (1847)

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HMS Elk was a 482-ton displacement, 16-gun ''Acorn''-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy launched on 29 September 1847 from the Chatham Dockyard. [1]

13 relations: Australia Station, Bass Strait, Builder's Old Measurement, Chatham Dockyard, Commander-in-Chief, China, East Indies Station, First Taranaki War, Her Majesty's Coastguard, HMS Sappho (1837), HMVS Victoria (1855), Royal Navy, Second Opium War, Sloop-of-war.

Australia Station

The Australia Station was the British, and later Australian, naval command responsible for the waters around the Australian continent.

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Bass Strait

Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.

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Builder's Old Measurement

Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship.

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Chatham Dockyard

Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.

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Commander-in-Chief, China

The Commander-in-Chief, China was a senior officer position of the British Royal Navy.

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East Indies Station

The Commander-in-Chief, East Indies was a British Royal Navy admiral and the formation subordinate to him from 1865 to 1958.

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First Taranaki War

The First Taranaki War was an armed conflict over land ownership and sovereignty that took place between Māori and the New Zealand Government in the Taranaki district of New Zealand's North Island from March 1860 to March 1861.

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Her Majesty's Coastguard

Her Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) is a section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region.

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HMS Sappho (1837)

HMS Sappho was a Royal Navy brig that gained public notoriety for causing a diplomatic incident over the slave trade with the United States of America and then went missing off the Australian coast in 1857–58.

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HMVS Victoria (1855)

HMVS Victoria (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship; also referred to with the prefix HMCSS-Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop) was a 580-ton combined steam/sail sloop-of-war built in England in the 1850s for the colony of Victoria, Australia.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Second Opium War

The Second Opium War (第二次鴉片戰爭), the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the United Kingdom and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860.

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Sloop-of-war

In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Elk_(1847)

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