HMS ''Fury'' was a of the British

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Military service

The ship was ordered on 5 June 1813 from the yard of Mrs Mary Ross, at

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, laid down in September, and launched on 4 April 1814. ''Fury'' saw service at the Bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816, under the command of Constantine Richard Moorsom.

Arctic exploration

Between November 1820 and April 1821, ''Fury'' was converted to an

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exploration ship and re-rated as a sloop. Commander

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commissioned her in December 1820, and ''Fury'' then made two journeys to the

, both in company with her

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, . Her first Arctic journey, in 1821, was Parry's second in search of the

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. The farthest point on this trip, the perpetually frozen strait between Foxe Basin and the Gulf of Boothia, was named after the two ships, Fury and Hecla Strait. On her second Arctic trip, ''Fury'' was commanded by Henry Parkyns Hoppner while Parry, in command of the expedition, moved to ''Hecla''. This voyage was disastrous for ''Fury''. She was damaged by ice at the start of the second season and was eventually abandoned on 25 August 1825, at what has since been called Fury Beach on Somerset Island.Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1824–25 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Fury, Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry... London (1826) Her stores were unloaded onto the beach and later came to the rescue of John Ross, who travelled overland to the abandoned cache when he lost his ship further south in the Gulf of Boothia on his 1829 expedition.

Legacy

In 1956, Captain T. C. Pullen,

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(RCN), sailed on an expedition through the Northwest Passage. During this voyage ''Labrador'' recovered two Admiralty Pattern anchors on Fury Beach, Somerset Island. The anchors were left there in 1825 by the crews of ''Fury'' and ''Hecla'', together with stores, boats, and other items. The anchors had been a landmark for sailors for 136 years. ''Labrador'' transported the artefacts to

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, and they were placed in the Maritime Command Museum (1961). In 1972, ''Fury''s anchors were moved to CCG Base Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1981, the anchors were removed to the Canadian Coast Guard College at

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. In 1991, the relics were prepared to be part of a popular exhibit. On 6 May 1998, the anchors were donated by the Canadian Forces Maritime Command (MARCOM) to the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean at

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. Currently, the anchors are displayed at the northeastern corner of the parade square, and are in the custody of le Musèe du Fort Saint-Jean. File:Ancres Fury. Anchors of HMS Fury (1814)..jpg, Anchors of HMS ''Fury'' at the

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at Fort Saint-Jean,

, Canada File:HMS Fury (1814) plaque..JPG, Explanatory plaque File:Fury Bay Beach & Debris Nunuvut Canada.jpg, Fury Beach - still littered with wooden & metal material.

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