HMS Crown was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1782 at Blackwall Yard. She was converted to serve as a prison...
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Crown (1793 ship) MS Albatros or Crown, a cruise ship HMS Crown (1654), a 48-gun ship launched as Taunton HMS Crown (1782), a 64-gun third rate Crown...
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wrecked in 1719. HMS Crown (1747) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1747, used as a storeship from 1757, and sold in 1770. HMS Crown (1782) was a 64-gun...
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borne the name HMS Diadem, after the diadem, a type of crown: HMS Diadem (1782) was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1782. She became a...
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HMS Scipio was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1782 at Deptford. She was broken up in 1798. Notable people...
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Launched: 15 March 1782 Fate: Broken up, 1816 HMS Ardent Builder: Staves & Parsons, Bursledon Ordered: 9 September 1779 Launched: 21 December 1782 Fate: Blown...
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HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy 64-gun third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 21 December 1782 at Bursledon, Hampshire. She disappeared in 1794...
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Revolutionary War: Action of 12 December 1782: A naval engagement off Ferrol, Spain, in which the British ship HMS Mediator commanded by James Luttrell successfully...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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HMS Standard was a 64-gun Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line, launched on 8 October 1782 at Deptford. She was the last of the 15 Intrepid-class vessels...
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HMS Suffolk later that month. Promoted to lieutenant on 25 May 1744, he joined the bomb vessel HMS Comet and then transferred to the first-rate HMS Royal...
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HMS Resistance was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1782. Based on the design of HMS Roebuck, the class was built for...
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Siege of Negapatam in 1781. On 22 July 1782, she captured the French cutter Le Pigmy, in conjunction with HMS Crown. Converted to a survey vessel, she sailed...
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HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century (redirect from List of colonial governors in 1782)
George Bruere the younger, Governor (1780–1781) William Browne, Governor (1782–1788) Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant governor (1788–1794) James Crawford, Governor...
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one of the escorts, HMS Centaur. The convoy and her escorts finally arrived at Portsmouth and Canada was paid off in October 1782. In January 1783 Cornwallis...
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HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (category 1782 births)
Maria Amalia Teresa of Naples and Sicily (26 April 1782 – 24 March 1866) was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French. She...
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from a convoy of 63, escorted by the ship of the line HMS Ramillies and three frigates. In 1782 she was incorporated into the Mediterranean Squadron,...
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service with the Royal Navy, and she was registered as the sloop HMS Pylades on 16 February 1782. MacBride's report, though it convinced the Admiralty to acquire...
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of 12 April 1782 at the Battle of the Saintes. November 1782: HMS Thetis, 38, Captain John Blankett; Gibraltar and Mediterranean 1783: HMS Europa, 50,...
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("Лансдоу", ex-French, ex-Britain HMS Norris) – Purchased in Britain 1713, BU 1725 Richmond 44 ("Ричмонд", ex-British HMS Swiftsure) – Purchased 1714 in...
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re-launched on 14 January 1782 and placed under the command of Captain Smith Child on 15 May, until 29 August when he shifted to HMS Europa. She was commissioned...
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Billings became an astronomer's assistant, initially aboard HMS Discovery, and then transferring to HMS Resolution in September 1779. The expedition explored...
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the next year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790. William sought to be made...
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Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons...
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USS Delaware (1776) (redirect from HMS Delaware (1777))
place and British troops patrolling, and so left quickly. On 6 June 1779 HMS Daphne captured the American privateer Oliver Cromwell. Delaware and the...
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the Italian states. In 1797, he distinguished himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly after that battle, Nelson...
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HMS Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. The ship was wrecked in a hurricane on...
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design, HMS Dart and HMS Arrow, two schooners of the same design, HMS Eling and two HMS Redbridge, and two one-off designs, HMS Milbrook and HMS Netley...
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