HMS Quail — Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Quail after the quail.*HMS|Quail|1806|6 was a 4 gun schooner launched in 1806 and sold in 1816. *HMS|Quail|1817|6 was a cutter tender launched in 1817. There were plans to renamed her HMS Providence … Wikipedia
HMS Sparrowhawk (1895) — HMS Sparrowhawk was a B class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son Company, Birkenhead, and was launched on October 8 1895. [ The Times (London) , Wednesday, October 9 1895, p.7] She served on the… … Wikipedia
HMS Thrasher (1895) — HMS Thrasher was a B class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son Company, Birkenhead, in 1895. One of four Quail class destroyers, she served in the Great War and was sold off after hostilities ended.… … Wikipedia
HMS Virago (1895) — HMS Virago was a B class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was completed by Laird, Son Company, Birkenhead, in 1895. One of four Quail class destroyers she served during the Great War and was sold off after hostilities ended … Wikipedia
Quail class destroyer — 4 Quail class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. HMS Quail (1895), HMS Sparrowhawk (1895), HMS Thrasher (1895) and HMS Virago (1895). These ships were all built by Cammell Laird and were the first of the thirty knotters .Concern about the… … Wikipedia
HMS Sparrowhawk — Six ships and a naval air station of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sparrowhawk after the bird of prey, the Eurasian Sparrowhawk:*HMS Sparrowhawk was an 18 gun Cruizer class brig sloop launched in 1807 and sold in 1841. *HMS Sparrowhawk was a … Wikipedia
Houtman Abrolhos — The Houtman Abrolhos (often informally called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands, and associated coral reefs, in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia. Nominally located at coord|28|43|S|113|47|E|scale:1000 region:AU… … Wikipedia