| 词条 | HMS Flying Fish (1873) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HMS Flying Fish was a Fantome-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 27 November 1873.[1] Originally intended to be named Daring, she was renamed Flying Fish before launch on 14 January 1873. Service HistoryEarly service and the Far EastShe commenced service with the East Indies Station in 1874 in the suppression of the slave trade off the East African coast.[1] She paid off in 1878 for conversion to a survey vessel and in 1880 commenced hydrographic surveys in the East Indies. In December 1880 she arrived in Hong Kong to commence surveying duties in East Asia (on the China Station) under the command of Richard F Hoskyn.[2] In November 1881, a party of sailors from the ship formed an honour guard for George French, Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan who had died in Kobe.[3] Involvement in the Imo incidentIn July 1882, the Flying Fish was involved in the rescue of the Japanese legation which had escaped from Seoul after a armed uprising by mutinous Korean troops there.{{sfn|Keene|2002|p=374}} The Flying Fish, later transported the surviving members of the legation back to Japan. On November 17, for his part in rescuing the survivors, the captain was presented by the emperor of Japan with a pair of bronze vases and some books - including one on the ancient conquest of Korea.{{sfn|Keene|2002|p=375}} It is commonly said (but not proven) that the British sailors on this mission played the first game of football in Korean history and thereby introduced the game to Korea.[4] Russian scare and later serviceDuring the Russian war scare of 1885 she was rearmed and rejoined fleet duties, however in 1886, she reverted to survey duties on the Australia Station.[1] She left the Australia Station later in 1886 and returned to England where she paid off. She was sold in 1888.[1] Flying Fish Cove on Christmas Island is named after her.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} During the visit to this island collections of animal specimens were made by the crew. This collection was reviewed in England and new species were described, including a previously unknown fruit bat species Pteropus natalis that is only found on the island.[5]A species of snake, Ramphotyphlops exocoeti, is named after her ("exocet" means "flying fish").[6] Notes1. ^1 2 3 Bastock 1988, pp. 90–100. 2. ^North China Herald, December 16, 1880, p555. The NCH gave Hoskyn's rank as Commander, however, the Navy List for 1881 lists him as a Lieutenant. 3. ^North China Herald, November 29, 1881, p567 4. ^{{Cite book|title=Sport and Nationalism in Asia: Power, Politics and Identity|last=Hong|first=Fan|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=9781317574019|location=|page=93}} 5. ^{{cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Oldfield |title=Report on a zoological collection made by the officers of H.M.S. ‘Flying Fish’ at Christmas Island. I. Mammalia. |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1887 |volume=1887 |pages=511–14 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31784152#page/633/mode/1up |publisher=Academic Press, [etc.]}} 6. ^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Exocet", p. 87). Bibliography
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