HMS Active (1869)
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HMS Active was a Volage-class corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Launched in 1869, she entered service in 1873, and was the commodore's ship on the Cape of Good Hope and West Africa
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The Zulu War, the Naval Brigade landed from HMS Active, at the Lower Tugela Drift. The Graphic 1879
Torpedo Boat No 78 attacking Active during the Naval Manoeuvres of 1888, inset is a Whitehead Torpedo-head of soft metal, flattened by striking the ship
Hms Active monument in Portsmouth
Royal Navy
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The Royal Navy is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, responsible for defending the country, the Crown Dependencies, and the Overseas Territories from naval attack or invasion. It is a comp
A late 16th-century portrait of the Spanish Armada battling Royal Navy warships
HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, is still a commissioned Royal Navy ship, although she is now permanently kept in dry-dock.
Bombardment of Algiers in north Africa by the Anglo-Dutch fleet in an attempt to stop the Barbary slave trade, 27 August 1816
The capture of Chusan during the First Opium War on 1 October 1841