HMS Spitfire
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HMS Spitfire
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Ten ships of the Royal Navy have carried the name HMS Spitfire, while an eleventh was planned but renamed before entering service. All are named after the euphemistic translation of Cacafuego, a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake. HMS Spitfire (1776) was an 8-gun galley purchased in 1776 in North America for Mouatt's squadron at Falmouth, Massachusetts. When Admiral d'Estaing's squadron arrived in Narragansett Bay on 29 July 1778, she, HMS Kingfisher, and HM galley Alarm were
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List of ships with the same or similar names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Spitfire
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2023-07-22T07:04:25Z
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