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Eight ships of the
Royal Navy have
borne the name HMS
Espiegle HMS
Espiegle (1793) was a 16-gun
French brig-sloop,
launched at
Bayonne in 1788. Nymphe...
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originally known as Le
Jardinier ("The Gardener") or Le
Jardinier et le
petit espiègle, and is
sometimes referred to in
English as The
Tables Turned on the Gardener...
- HMS
Espiegle (J216) was a
steam turbine-powered Algerine-class
minesweeper during the
Second World War. The turbine-powered
ships displaced 850 long tons...
- In the
French language, the noun élève 'schoolchild' and the
adjective espiègle 'mischievous' can be
either masculine or feminine, but they are differentiated...
- HMS
Espiegle was a Doterel-class
sloop of the
Royal Navy,
built at the
Devonport Dockyard and
launched on 3
August 1880. The
Doterel class was designed...
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class comprised the very last ****
sloops built for the
Royal Navy, and
Espiegle was the last
Royal Navy ship to
sport a
figurehead until she was broken...
- by the
Enterprise Ethéart, Saint-Malo, as the
French Curieux-class brig
Espiègle and
launched in 1804. She was
armed in 1807 at
Saint Servan. The British...
- well have been the
sloop HMS Cadmus
launched in 1903. Her
sister ship
Espiegle was the last to
sport a
figurehead until her
breaking up in 1923. Early...
- war effort. In 1883,
Cyprian Bridge of the p****ing
British warship HMS
Espiegle mediated a
peace treaty. The
fighting never resumed, but when HMS Dart...
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Built in 1912 by Thornycroft, she was sunk on 9
November 1914 by HMS
Espiegle in Shatt-al-Arab, salvaged, and
returned to
service late 1915,
armed with...
