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Combat stores ships, or
storeships, are
ships used to
store naval supplies. They are used to
deliver supplies such as
provisions and fuel to
combat ships...
- The
Apollo is a
historic storeship that is
buried at a
location in
downtown San Francisco, California, at the site of the Old
Federal Reserve Bank. It...
- Some of
these approximately 500
abandoned ships were used at
times as
storeships, saloons, and hotels; many were left to rot, and some were sunk to establish...
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field pieces, and a navy of 320 vessels, the bulk of them
transports and
storeships. The city was
surrounded by sea and land; the
fleet at the
entrance of...
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colonisation of Australia. It
consisted of two
Royal Navy vessels,
three storeships and six
convict transports under the
command of
Captain Arthur Phillip...
- three-masted,
square rigged merchant ship,
launched in 1785, that
served as a
storeship of the
First Fleet, a
convoy of 11
ships taking settlers and convicts...
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initially lacking United States ports in the
Pacific and
operating out of
storeships that
provided naval supplies,
while obtaining food and
water from local...
- HMS Supply (1781) was a 20-gun
storeship purchased in 1781 and sold in 1784. HMS Supply (1793) was a 10-gun
storeship, of 388 tons (bm),
originally the...
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Fishburn was
built at
Whitby in 1780. the
largest of the
three First Fleet storeships.
According to her 1786
Deptford survey, she was 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m)...
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during the
California Gold Rush of 1849. Run
aground and
converted into a
storeship and hotel, she was a
prominent landmark in the
booming city for several...
