Duke of York was a fir-built ship of 500 tons (bm), built in 1780 at Archangel. In 1787 her owner was "Hitchie", her master "Jn Wolff", and her trade...

of ships have been named Duke of York after numerous holders of the title of Duke of York (or Duke of York and Albany): Duke of York (1716 EIC ship)...

The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 22,000 people died throughout the Lesser Antilles...

captured 1780) San Miguel 70 (1773, ex-Spanish San Miguel, captured 1780) Prothee 64 (1772, ex-French Protée, captured 1780) Converted to a Prison Ship 1799...

related to 1780. 1780 (MDCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar...

lines of a small 74-gun Third Rate ship of the line but was a frigate in construction. In 1780 the Duke of Luxembourg chartered her to the navy of South...

Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (1709–1756), younger son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort Lord Charles...

Alexander of Lorraine (1712–1780), son of Leopold Joseph, Duke of Lorraine and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne (1735–1814)...

held until 1802. In 1780, the Duke was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and remained interested in medical and scientific matters of the day. In 1797,...

Leicester Square, where George and his younger brother Edward (later Duke of York and Albany) were educated together by private tutors. Family letters...

heiress, great-granddaughter of Montezuma II Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo, a Spanish hereditary title held by descendants of Moctezuma II Carlos Montezuma...

anti-submarine warfare aircraft Neptune (1780 ship), a convict ship in Second Fleet, to New South Wales Neptune (galleon), a 1986 ship replica built for Roman Polanski's...

former captain of slave ships. In early 1780 he was appointed by the African Committee of the Royal African Company as the governor of Anomabu, a British...

into mercantile service, becoming the northern whale fishery whaler Duke of York. In 1784 her name changed to Elizabeth and Margaret, and she continued...

of Queensberry (c. 1582–1640), Scottish nobleman William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry (1637–1695), Scottish nobleman and politician, grandson of the...

Admiral Rodney ordered his ships to attack the Spanish from leeward in the stormy weather at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780.[citation needed] In the...

many had been content to keep mistresses or, in the cases of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex, to marry invalidly. As a result, George III and...

(c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Considered to have born on a British slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho...

knowledge. He was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780, when the San Julián struck her colours to his ship. His experiences in the navy seem to...

Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder and the reigning Duke of Gotha and of Weimar. In subsequent use, "Illuminati" has been used when referring...

Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hope: English ship Hope (1559) was a 48-gun galleon launched in 1559. She was rebuilt with 38-guns...

fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1780. Commissioned in the same year, the ship served throughout the remainder of the American Revolutionary...

a 44-gun fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759 and sunk in 1780 and saw service during the American War of Independence. Phoenix...

(details) 1780, June 1 – USS Trumbull engages the British privateer Watt; both ships withdraw 1780, August 10 – HMS Flora defeats the French ship Nymphe...

patronage of the Duke of York, through whose influence he was appointed purser on various warships. He had himself been one of three survivors of a trading...

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte KB (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer...

Charles II of England and his brother James, Duke of York raised a fleet to take the Dutch colony of New Netherland, then under the Directorship of Peter Stuyvesant...

Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), after its Colonel-in-Chief. The 1st Battalion was serving in British India on the outbreak of war in 1939 and did...

war, nearly eighty years after it was first captured by the British. In 1780 and 1781, Luis de Córdova's fleet captured America-bound British convoys...

in 1780. The attrition of constant fighting, the decision by the Kingdom of France to ultimately lend considerable military support to the cause of American...