HMS Hecla (1815)
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HMS Hecla was a Royal Navy Hecla-class bomb vessel launched in 1815. Like many other bomb vessels, she was named for a volcano, in this case Hekla in southern Iceland. She served at the Bombardment of
Lithograph depicting HMS Hecla and HMS Fury, by Arthur Parsey, 1823
The Bombardment of Algiers by Thomas Luny
HMS Griper (1813)
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HMS Griper was a Bold-class gun-brig of the British Royal Navy, built in 1813 by Mark Williams and John Davidson at Hythe. She participated in the 1819 expedition to the Arctic led by William Parry, m
HMS Hecla (1815)
…without serious damage. On the first journey, from May 1819 until December 1820 Hecla was commanded by Parry. She and her companion ship, the gun brig Griper, reached a longitude 112°51' W before backtracking to winter off Melville Island. No ship was able to travel so far west again in a single season until…
The Crews of HMS Hecla & Griper Cutting into Winter Harbour, Sept. 26th, 1819, from the 1821 journal of the Arctic expedition
Situation of HMS Griper, Sept 1, 1824