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    HMS Ganges was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1821 at Bombay Dockyard, constructed from teak. She was...
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  • named HMS Ganges after the river Ganges in India. HMS Ganges (1782) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816. HMS Ganges (1821)...
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    including a room created from the captain's cabin of the warship HMS Ganges (1821). The hotel is now a Grade II listed building During World War II,...
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  • Fulford (English priest) (died 1518), priest John Fulford (captain) of HMS Ganges (1821) under Rear-Admiral Baynes Fulford Harbour, British Columbia, named...
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    Queen was eventually broken up in 1821, at the age of 52. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p175. Naval-Art.com, HMS Queen. "Naval Documents related to...
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    the Formidable class. HMS Formidable Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 8 May 1815 Launched: 19 May 1825 Fate: Sold, 1906 HMS Ganges Builder: Bombay Dockyard...
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    Gate also harbours HMS Ganges, a former Royal Navy training establishment (RNTE Shotley) for boys. The teak ship was constructed in 1821 and taken out of...
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    line HMS Ganges. At the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807 Ganges carried commodore Richard Goodwin Keats' flag. Halkett remained in command of Ganges until...
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  • 1808 the boats of HMS Ceylon had recaptured Ganges after a chase of three days. Her captors sent Ganges into Calcutta. In 1809 Ganges, of 412 tons (bm)...
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  • the matter by forcing a duel with his tormentor. He is then transferred to HMS Indefatigable under Edward Pellew and distinguishes himself. He fends off...
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    Impressment (redirect from Press-Gang)
    England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking there into naval service. H.M.S. Defiant (Lewis Gilbert,...
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    1862 to 1884, and for boys from 1891 to 1897. See also Trincomalee. Ganges (1821) from 1865 to 1905; continuing renamed Tenedos III, Indus V and Impregnable...
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    America on board HMS Ganges. In 1827–1830, he was on the Royal Navy's HMS Forte. And then in 1830, he was with Phillip Parker King on board HMS Adventure while...
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  • Lord Nelson purchased the panelling of the Captain's Cabin of HMS Ganges, built in 1821, which was being broken up, installing the panelling in the main...
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  • 1730 play by Charles Johnson Medea, a 1761 play by Richard Glover Medea, an 1821 play by Franz Grillparzer Medea (Anouilh), a 1946 play by Jean Anouilh Medea...
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    James Walter Fairholme (category 1821 births)
    James Walter Fairholme (10 January 1821 – after 24 May 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer who in 1845 served under Sir John Franklin...
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    years prior to 1822 when a permanent squadron was formed. After a September 1821 attack by pirates, in which three American merchant ships were captured,...
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  • press-gang from his father's fishing boat and impressed into the Royal Navy. He began as an ordinary seaman on the 110-gun first-rate ship of the line HMS Ville...
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  • HMS Ruby was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1776 at Woolwich. She was converted to serve as a receiving...
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    The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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  • Ganges and Leonidas seized there on 31 July 1812. In 1813 and 1815 Partridge served in the Mediterranean. On 18 July 1813, while off Manfredonia, HMS Havannah...
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    HMS Discovery was a Royal Navy ship launched in 1789 and best known as the lead ship in George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America...
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    a secret mission, which did not eventuate. Keats then took command of HMS Ganges and was promoted commodore with Admiral Gambier's squadron in the Baltic...
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  • David Ewen Bartholomew (category 1821 deaths)
    Captain David Ewen Bartholomew, CB (c. 1767/1768 - 19 February 1821) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, who rose from a poor background...
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    testimony. On 9 March 1797, HMS St Fiorenzo, commanded by Sir Harry Neale, was sailing in company with Captain John Cooke's HMS Nymphe, when they encountered...
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    HMS Liverpool was a Royal Navy Endymion-class frigate, reclassified as a fourth rate. She was built by Wigram, Wells and Green and launched at Woolwich...
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    HMS Gladiator was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 20 January 1783 by Henry Adams of Bucklers Hard. She spent...
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    replaced Christian. On 6 June 1806, Sir Edward Hughes escorted Ganges to Bombay as Ganges was leaky and had to interrupt her return to Britain in order...
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  • Pringle Stokes (category HMS Beagle)
    for repairs. When it arrived there Robert FitzRoy, flag lieutenant of HMS Ganges, was given command. FitzRoy commanded the Beagle on its celebrated second...
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    hurricane swept ashore 35 ships lying in other ports in Antigua, while HMS Hector and HMS Winchelsea, both moored in English Harbour, suffered no damage.[citation...
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