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    HMS Alderney was a 10-gun (later, 12-gun) Alderney-class sloop of the Royal Navy that saw active service during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary...
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  • called HMS Alderney, named after the Island of Alderney. HMS Alderney (1735) was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1735 and hulked in 1741. HMS Alderney (1743)...
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    trained artillery men were sent to Alderney. The loss of HMS Amethyst, a 38-gun frigate wrecked in 1795 off Alderney, gave the island a number of cannon...
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    1741 HMS Blandford 1741 1741 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1742–1746: HMS Lowestoffe 1742 HMS Aldborough 1743 HMS Alderney 1743 HMS Phoenix 1743 HMS Sheerness...
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    HMS Stork was a 10-gun Alderney-class sloop of the Royal Navy which saw active service during the Seven Years' War. Launched in 1757, she was assigned...
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  • captain's servant aboard HMS Alderney. He passed his examinations for promotion to lieutenant in 1744. He commanded a sloop in 1757; and he was promoted to...
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  • in HMS Rippon in 1740. Hamilton fought in the War of Jenkins' Ear at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741 and then transferred to HMS Alderney where...
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    command the bomb vessel HMS Alderney. Further appointments followed, to the sloop HMS Hawk in November 1742, and then to HMS Success. During this time...
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    the command of the 12-gun sloop HMS Alderney, and early in the following year, whilst acting captain of the 28-gun HMS Tartar, captured a French privateer...
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    March 15 – HMS Dragon, a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, is wrecked on Les Casquets rocks to the west of Alderney. March 30 – Anne...
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  • Church. 15 March – HMS Dragon, a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, is wrecked on Les Casquets rocks to the west of Alderney. 30 March – Queen...
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  • Temple West (category 1757 deaths)
    Vice-Admiral Temple West (1713 – 9 August 1757) was a British naval officer, best known for his role as second-in-command to Admiral John Byng during the...
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    fourteen in 1746, and a year later joined the East India Company's marine. In 1757 he was discharged, joined the Royal Navy, and soon reached the rank of Midshipman...
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    Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the frigate Diamond, the bomb vessels Alderney, Terrible, and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transports...
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    brought along 1,176 settlers and their families. In 1750, the sailing ship Alderney arrived with 151 immigrants. Municipal officials at Halifax decided that...
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    Kitchen (1692) Salamander class (1730) Salamander (1730) Terrible (1730) Alderney (1735) Basilisk class (1740) Blast (1740) Basilisk (1740) Thunder (1740)...
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    at work in Dartmouth.: 334  In August 1750, 353 people arrived on the Alderney and began the town of Dartmouth. The town was laid out in the autumn of...
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    who were at work in Dartmouth. In August 1750, 353 people arrived on the Alderney and began the town of Dartmouth. The town was laid out in the autumn of...
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    were at work in Dartmouth. In August 1750, 353 people arrived on the ship Alderney and began the town of Dartmouth, which was laid out in the autumn of that...
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  • March 15 – HMS Dragon, a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, is wrecked on Les Casquets rocks to the west of Alderney. March 30 – Anne...
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    Onslow Plumer Hamilton, died young William (1721–1744), lost in HMS Victory off Alderney. A daughter (born 1736), died an infant On 10 November 1715 Lord...
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