Four vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Highflyer.
The first HMS Highflyer (1813) was an 8-gun schooner operating as an American privateer. In January 1813 HMS Poictiers captured her. The Royal Navy took Highflyer into service, retaining her name. The Americans recaptured her in September of that year.
The second HMS Highflyer (1822) was a 2-gun tender in service from 1822 to 1833.
The third HMS Highflyer (1851) was a wooden-hulled screw frigate launched in 1851 and broken up 1871.
The fourth HMS Highflyer (1898) was a 2nd class cruiser launched 1898 and sold in 1921.
Highflyer was also the name of the Royal Navy shore establishment in Trincomalee, Ceylon until 1958.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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have been named HMSHighflyer. The first HMSHighflyer (1813) was an 8-gun schooner operating as an American privateer. In January 1813 HMS Poictiers captured...
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before being defeated in the Battle of Río de Oro by the British cruiser HMSHighflyer and scuttled by her crew, just three weeks after the outbreak of war...
single-ship action fought in August 1914 during the First World War, when HMSHighflyer attacked the German SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off Río de Oro on the...
organized rescue parties ashore. HMSHighflyer, along with the armed merchant cruisers HMS Changuinola, HMS Knight Templar and HMS Calgarian, sent boats ashore...
the East Indies, and comprised HMSHighflyer, HMS Caroline, HMS Comus, HMS Southampton (Flagship) until July 1925; HMS Colombo (January 1922-January 1926;...
HMSHighflyer, Trincomalee, Ceylon HMS Hornet, Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire HMS Idaho, WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire HMS Inskip...
coast of Zanzibar on August 24, 1866 by HMSHighflyer. He and several other boys were put to work on HMSHighflyer, with Thomas working as a valet before...
passenger liner that sank two freighters in 1914 before being caught by HMSHighflyer. Her sister ship, Kronprinz Wilhelm, had a legendary journey, sinking...
went to sea in a 5,650 ton second class cruiser, HMSHighflyer, and afterwards on the slightly older HMS Isis. These ships were stationed at Bermuda and...
HMS Bulwark, HMS Magnificent, HMS Britannia, HMS Chester, HMS Royal Sovereign, and HMSHighflyer. During the First World War as Brevet Major on HMS Royal...
capturing several merchant ships, but the only highlight was the capture of HMSHighflyer in late September. After the ship spent a year blockaded in port, Stephen...
buried with full military honors in Portland. President (1800) versus HMSHighflyer (1813) (September 23, 1813): An action off the coast of New England...
was a Highflyer-class cruiser launched in 1898, converted into an experimental seaplane tender in 1913 and sunk by a German U-boat in 1914. HMS Hermes (95)...
pregnancy had become obvious, she fled on board the British frigate HMSHighflyer commanded by Captain [Thomas] Malcolm Sabine Pasley R.N. and was given...
Sampson, Terrible and Tiger, supported by the British screw frigate Highflyer, fourth-rate sailing frigate Arethusa, and steam ship Sans Pareil, and...
frigate HMSHighflyer in December 1852, commanding officer of the sloop HMS Archer in February 1854 and commanding officer of the frigate HMS Doris in...
Wilhelm der Grosse was defeated and scuttled after a fierce battle with HMSHighflyer off the coast of west Africa, while her sister ship Kronprinz Wilhelm...
France. Battle of Río de Oro: British Royal Navy protected cruiser HMSHighflyer forces the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, sailing as an auxiliary cruiser...
HMS Hyacinth (1898), launched in 1898, was a Highflyer-class light cruiser. She served in the First World War and was scrapped in 1923. HMS Hyacinth (K84), launched in...
lieutenant in 1909, Blagrove saw brief service aboard HMSHighflyer, HMS Fox and the battleship HMS Vengeance, before taking a course ashore at Dartmouth...
South Atlantic where, on 24 July 1941, she was intercepted off Montevideo by HMS Newcastle and scuttled by her crew. In 1939 NDL had in service 70 vessels...
the British would attack their forts on the coast. The British ship H.M.S. Highflyer, which had been sent to Abdullah, returned to Qatif on January 30....
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