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    HMS Aetna (or HMS Etna) was the mercantile Success launched in 1803 at Littlehampton. The Admiralty purchased her in 1803 for conversion into a Royal...
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  • of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Aetna (historically spelled Ætna) or HMS Etna, after the volcano Etna: HMS Aetna (1691) was an 8-gun fireship launched...
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  • Her fate is unknown. HMS Meteor (1855) was an Aetna-class ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1861. HMS Meteor (1914) was an Thornycroft...
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    HMS Euryalus was a Royal Navy 36-gun Apollo-class frigate that saw service in the Battle of Trafalgar and the War of 1812. During her career she was commanded...
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  • trade in enslaved people before the Royal Navy purchased her in 1803 and renamed her HMS Thunder. Thunder served in the Mediterranean and the Baltic; among...
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  • HMS Dictator was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in...
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  • HMS Heron was originally the merchant vessel Jason, launched at Newcastle in 1803, that the Admiralty purchased in 1804 for the Royal Navy for use as...
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    HMS Hydra launched in 1797 was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. From 1813 to 1817 she served as a troopship. She was sold in 1820. She was built...
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  • HMS Nymphe was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was...
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  • May 1778, he was given command of the bomb vessel HMS Aetna at that time and of the second-rate HMS Prince George the following year. Promoted to captain...
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