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our party on shore close to me I handed him some more tobacco for things he had brought down. As he took it with one hand, he struck me over the head and right hand with a large trade knife he had in the other and jumped into the bush. Dr.Mc Kinlay who was close to me fired at once at him but without result. A large number of men with arms were seen hiding behind a rock at the same time I think his premature action spoiled a plan for an attack on a larger scale
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On shore I met one of the natives who had been on board during the morning, to whom I made a present, the other natives were very shy but I distributed some tobacco amongst them through the medium of the same man. After about 10 minutes when I was within 10 yards of the boat and there being three of
340:(344 kW). She was armed with two 6-inch (150 mm) 64-pounder (56 cwt) muzzle-loading rifles and two 4-inch (100 mm) 20-pounder Armstrong breech loaders. All four guns were mounted on traversing carriages. Some of the class were re-armed in the 1880s with two
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was throwing coconuts overboard. Rushing to the deck, Marx could see through binoculars that the blackbirders were throwing their human cargo over the side in order to be rid of the incriminating evidence. Still half naked from their hammocks,
429:, where the master was tried by the Vice Admiralty Court of Inquiry. Marx was warned not to walk the streets in uniform since considerable vested interests were affected. Nevertheless, after three days the court convicted the master of
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was engined by
Humphrys, Tennant & Co. with a horizontal single-expansion steam engine (the rest of the class had compound-expansion engines) developing an
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to the east of New Guinea, and sent Mr. Millman, the civil magistrate, on board to investigate. On finding 60 illegally taken islanders in the
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had been trading with some natives, and considering them friendly, Marx decided to go ashore. He was attacked and described the assault:
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s seamen manned the boats and rescued 18 men from the water; about 20 men had drowned. In the morning Marx boarded the
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that he would be taken into port the following day, and that he would be sunk if he tried to escape. That night
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and since it was Royal Navy policy to ship entire crews out to the far-flung stations, she recommissioned at
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382:. She arrived in Australia in 1884 under the command of Lieutenant Marx and was employed in preventing the
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recommissioned in Sydney on 4 May 1887. She left the
Australia Station in August 1891.
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She was hulked in 1895 and the outbreak of World War I saw her attached to
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575:, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia.
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328:-class gunboats were the first gunboats of composite construction.
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breech loaders. All the ships of the class carried a three-masted
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292:on 7 February 1872. She served at first on the
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659:(2nd ed.). London: Conway.
450:Lieutenant John Locke Marx, 1886
433:and vindicated Lieutenant Marx.
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674:Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004).
239:(17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
678:. London: Chatham Publishing.
629:Jones, Mary (4 January 2008).
591:at the Naval Database website"
573:Ships on the Australia Station
95:Hull £10,600, machinery £3,900
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363:served at first on the
324:of the Royal Navy, the
312:Design and construction
213:Single (hoisting) screw
116:General characteristics
653:; Major, John (2007).
571:Bastock, John (1988),
546:Naval Database website
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532:Preston (2007) p. 161
436:In 1886 at St. Agnau
425:and carried her into
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296:and from 1883 on the
876:Ariel-class gunboats
374:She commissioned at
334:indicated horsepower
520:Bastock, pp. 93–94.
356:Operational service
194:nominal horsepower
35:The launch of HMS
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322:Chief Constructor
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137:Displacement
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641:29 November
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601:29 November
470:Impregnable
431:Forest King
423:Forest King
411:Forest King
392:Forest King
388:Forest King
350:barquentine
284:, built at
225:barquentine
210:Two boilers
21:HMS Swinger
866:1872 ships
860:Categories
566:References
475:store ship
300:. She was
282:Royal Navy
276:composite
202:Propulsion
819:Britomart
468:HMS
376:Devonport
369:Hong Kong
308:in 1924.
220:Sail plan
185:461
828:Forester
775:Mosquito
747:Coquette
694:52620555
479:breaking
448:—
427:Brisbane
344:and two
306:breaking
290:launched
244:Armament
140:430 tons
100:Launched
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782:Goshawk
613:Swinger
589:Swinger
456:Swinger
438:Swinger
416:Swinger
400:Swinger
361:Swinger
330:Swinger
280:of the
278:gunboat
269:was an
266:Swinger
172:Draught
131:gunboat
82:Builder
74:Ordered
68:Swinger
44:History
37:Swinger
803:Zephyr
768:Merlin
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346:4-inch
342:5-inch
302:hulked
274:-class
156:Length
128:-class
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796:Ariel
761:Decoy
733:Ariel
611:"HMS
587:"HMS
485:Notes
473:as a
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352:rig.
326:Ariel
272:Ariel
237:knots
232:Speed
126:Ariel
754:Foam
690:OCLC
680:ISBN
661:ISBN
643:2010
622:2010
603:2010
577:ISBN
462:Fate
288:and
264:HMS
252:2 ×
235:9.5
164:Beam
148:295
108:Fate
92:Cost
77:1871
66:HMS
63:Name
338:ihp
227:rig
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