• HMS Elizabeth was a 70-gun third rate built at Barnards Yard at Deptford Green by William and Robert Castle of Rotherhithe in 1678/80. She held an active...
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  • HMS Elizabeth (1679) was a third-rate ship of the line launched in 1679. She was rebuilt in 1704, but captured by the French later that year. HMS Elizabeth (1706)...
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  • and wrecked in 1666. HMS Breda (1679), a 70-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1679 and blown up by accident in 1690. HMS Breda (1692), a 70-gun...
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    Thames HMS Kitchen (1670) 8-gun yacht launched at Rotherhithe HMS Hope (1678) 70-gun ship of the line launched at Deptford Dockyard HMS Elizabeth (1679) 70-gun...
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    HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring to the fifth-rate HMS Nonsuch in July 1680. He returned to HMS...
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    eighth RN ship to bear the name since the first 70-gun ship of the line in 1679, and the ninth in the class of Type 23 frigates. She is based at Devonport...
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  • Philip Howard (1629–1717) (category English MPs 1661–1679)
    descendants. They had two sons: James Howard (1679–1722), married Catherine Booth and had four children: Catherine Elizabeth Howard (1700–1775), married Narcissus...
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  • 1670s (redirect from 1670–1679)
    The 1670s decade ran from January 1, 1670, to December 31, 1679. January 17 – Raphael Levy, a Jewish resident of the city of Metz in France, is burned...
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    Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (category English MPs 1661–1679)
    securing re-election to Parliament for Huntingdonshire in 1679 and again for Northampton in 1679 and 1681 his safety was then ensured by Parliamentary immunity...
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    appointed since the year 1660 (1915) "No. 1485". The London Gazette. 9 February 1679. p. 2. "No. 18360". The London Gazette. 11 May 1827. p. 1033. "No. 18506"...
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    of HMS Dartmouth on 23 August that year. On 26 November 1688 he was briefly appointed to HMS Constant Warwick, before being put in charge of HMS Swallow...
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    heraldic badge of the Royal Navy's current flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth uses a Tudor rose with colours divided vertically (per pale), inheriting...
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  • John Holmes (Royal Navy officer) (category English MPs 1661–1679)
    of the 48-gun Bristol. He was then promoted to command of a second-rate, HMS Triumph, of 64 guns. In 1670-1 he was in Vice Admiral Sir Edward Spragge's...
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    Vice-Admiral James Berkeley, 3rd Earl of Berkeley, KG, PC (c. 1679 – 17 August 1736) was an English Royal Navy officer and peer who served as First Lord...
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    The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. "HMS Blenheim (+1807)". Wreck Site. Retrieved 12 October 2013. "The Loss of the...
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    Richard Haddock (category English MPs 1679)
    Haddock had command of HMS Dragon from 1656 to 1660, but was then unemployed until 1666 when he took command of the 50-gun HMS Portland on 14 June 1666...
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    George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth (category English MPs 1661–1679)
    April 1667 he was made Captain of HMS Pembroke, a 28-gun fifth-rate, which sank on 11 May following a collision with HMS Fairfax near Torbay. Despite this...
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    Against Mankind (1675), one of the few poems he published (in a broadside in 1679), is a scathing denunciation of rationalism and optimism that contrasts human...
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    George Carteret (category English MPs 1661–1679)
    (died after 1679), served as a captain in the Royal Navy, and married and had children George (died 1656), who died unmarried. Elizabeth (who never married)...
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    Richard Lestock (category 1679 births)
    Admiral Richard Lestock (22 February 1679 – 17 December 1746) was an officer in the Royal Navy, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral. He fought in...
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    Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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  • HMS Charles Galley on an expedition to Tangier with Admiral Narborough in 1677. From the Charles Galley he transferred first to HMS James, then HMS Newcastle...
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    – captured 1695 Elizabeth 70 (1679) – rebuilt 1703 Stirling Castle 70 (1679) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703 Breda 70 (c. 1679) – burnt 1690 Mordaunt...
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    by Laurent Hubac, launched 1679 at Brest – wrecked off Brest 1684. Hercule, 30 guns, design by Laurent Hubac, launched 1679 at Brest – burnt November 1704...
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    the ship sailed back to Mackinac with the furs. Le Griffon disappeared in 1679 on the return trip of her maiden voyage. In the spring of 1682, La Salle...
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  • Governor of New York, negotiates the Covenant Chain with the Iroquois. 1679–81 – Debate over the Exclusion Bill in England. 1680 – Destruction of the...
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    George Bentinck (1715–1759) Mary Capel, Countess of Essex, née Bentinck (1679–1726) Willem Bentinck van Rhoon, 1st Count Bentinck (1704–1774), Dutch politician;...
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    Charles II but it was rejected by the Court of Aldermen, and rejected again in 1679. Records indicated increased evidence of the Paviors exercising control over...
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    launched 5 October 1679 at Le Havre) – deleted 1694. Courageux 50, later 60 guns (designed and built by François Pomet, launched 18 December 1679 at Rochefort)...
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    Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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