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Role of HMS Hornet in the Capture of Canton

Dec 9, 2024

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Praveen Rao Teleti

in Ship stories

The HMS Hornet, a 17-gun sloop of the Royal Navy, played a crucial role in the capture of Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) during the Second Opium War (1856–1860). Built in 1854 as part of the Royal Navy’s Cruizer-class sloops, the Hornet was equipped with a combination of sails and steam power, allowing it to operate effectively…
Understanding Data: A Window into History and Climate

Dec 4, 2024

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Zoe Cheang

in Project Context

Let us go back by a century, and imagine ourselves to be one of the crew onboard a ship sailing vast global seas. Surrounded by the blue ocean and open sky, part of your daily routine would be to jot down weather observations in a logbook – a notebook filled with careful notes about what…