HMS Dolphin

Sailing Ships

HMS Dolphin was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1751. From 1764 she served as a survey ship and made two circumnavigations of the world, commanded successively by John Byron and Samuel Wallis. She was the first ship to circumnavigate the world twice. Dolphin was paid off in September 1776 and broken up in early 1777.

Type: 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy
Survey service: Used as a survey ship from 1764
Distinction: First ship to circumnavigate the world twice

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Article: HMS Dolphin (1751) (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Q933175
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