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    Captain Charles Clerke (22 August 1741 – 22 August 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration (including three circumnavigations)...
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  • Charles Clerke was a royal Navy officer. Charles Clerke may also refer to: Charles Clerke (footballer) (1857–1944), English amateur footballer who scored...
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    Resolution, to be commanded by Cook, and HMS Discovery, commanded by Charles Clerke, were prepared for the voyage which started from Plymouth in 1776. Omai...
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  • Charles John Clerke (8 September 1857 – 7 November 1944) was an English amateur footballer who scored the only goal in the 1879 FA Cup Final. Clerke was...
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    with the wood. John Ledyard also tells of an episode where Captain Charles Clerke accused a native chieftain of stealing the Resolution's jolly boat....
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  • named after Agnes Mary Clerke Clerke Rocks, a group of small rocky islands in the South Atlantic, named after Charles Clerke Clerke v. Harwood (1797), a...
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    Charles Carr Clerke (December 30, 1798 – December 24, 1877) was Archdeacon of Oxford from March 9, 1830, until his death. He also served as rector of...
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    "reddish water" in Hawaiian. Captain Charles Clerke aboard HMS Resolution stopped at Waimea Bay on February 28, 1779. Clerke had shortly before taken command...
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    by a British expedition under Captain James Cook, who named them for Charles Clerke, an officer on HMS Resolution, who first saw the rocks. There are no...
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    his last voyage, Cook again commanded HMS Resolution, while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery. The voyage was ostensibly planned to return...
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  • Kennington Oval in London. Old Etonians won by 1–0, the only goal scored by Charles Clerke. Although Clapham dominated the early stages of the final, with Norman...
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    until February 28, 1779, when Captain Charles Clerke aboard HMS Resolution stepped ashore at Waimea Bay. Clerke took command of the ship after James Cook...
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    Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 391. Pritchard, Charles; Clerke, Agnes Mary (1911). "Herschel, Sir Frederick William" . Encyclopædia...
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    whoever discovered the passage. Initially the Admiralty had wanted Charles Clerke to lead the expedition, with Cook (in retirement following his exploits...
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    brig, Cook had her changed to a full-rigged ship. She was commanded by Charles Clerke, who had previously served on Cook's first two expeditions, and had...
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  • three baronetcies created for members of the Clerke family. One creation is extant as of 2008. The Clerke Baronetcy, of Hitcham in the County of Buckingham...
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    Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907), Irish astronomer and science writer Charles Clerke (1741–1779), British naval officer and explorer Charles Clerke (footballer)...
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    August 1778, and again crossed it on 19 July 1779, under the command of Charles Clerke after Cook's death in Hawaii. She arrived back in Britain on 4 October...
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    killed and was succeeded by Captain Charles Clerke, who was dying from tuberculosis. Due to his weakened state, Clerke placed Bligh in charge as navigator...
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    Kamchatka, Ratmanov installed a new tombstone to Cook's comrade-in-arms Charles Clerke, whose burial place was initially identified by Lapérouse. Lisyansky's...
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    Resolution carried a crew of 112; as senior lieutenants Robert Cooper and Charles Clerke and among the midshipmen George Vancouver and James Burney. The master...
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  • included the ship's master Robert Molyneuax, ship's master's mates Charles Clerke, Richard Pickersgill, and Francis Wilkinson, and the lieutenant John...
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    his last voyage, Cook again commanded HMS Resolution, while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery. The voyage was ostensibly planned to return...
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    Cape. Captains: James Cook (1728–1779) (Resolution) expedition leader, Charles Clerke and Tobias Furneaux (1735–1781) (Adventure) Surgeon-naturalist: William...
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    The Reverend Charles Robert Maturin of the City of Dublin, Clerke, of the one part and the Reverend Thomas Kingsbury of the said City, Clerke, William Disney...
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    soldier Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British prime minister Charles Clerke (1741–1779), sailed with James Cook on all three of his expeditions...
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    Zealand aboard the Resolution, accompanied by the Discovery captained by Charles Clerke. 1788 New South Wales founded, which, according to Governor Phillip's...
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    Charles Clerke, captain of Resolution's sister ship HMS Discovery took command. Gore then assumed command of Discovery in Clerke's place. When Clerke...
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    Buchan James Burney Charles Clerke James Colnett Alexander Dalrymple Georg Forster Johann Reinhold Forster Tobias Furneaux John Gore Charles Green Zachary Hickes...
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  • April 1771 William Brougham Munkhouse Surgeon Died on 05 November 1770 Charles Clerke Master’s mate Richard Pickersgill Master’s mate West Tanfield Alexander...
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