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    HMS Guernsey was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of four ordered in September 1694 (Blackwall and Guernsey on 12 September...
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  • renamed HMS Guernsey in 1660. She was converted to a fireship in 1688 and broken up in 1693. HMS Guernsey (1696) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1696. She...
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  • and two planned ones HMS Guernsey (1696), 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1696 HMS Guernsey (P297), Island-class offshore...
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    search for the missing HMS Victory in 1744, and eventually discovered her likely fate when she stopped to re-provision at Guernsey. Falkland was transferred...
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  • English Royal Navy, one of four ordered in September 1694 (Blackwall and Guernsey on 12 September and Nonsuch and Warwick on 25 September) to be built by...
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  • HMS Nonsuch was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of four ordered in September 1694 (Blackwall and Guernsey on 12 September...
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  • HMS Warwick was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of four ordered in September 1694 (Blackwall and Guernsey on 12 September...
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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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  • Jean-Léon Fournier de Carles de Pradine, Governor (1695?–1696?) De Bellair de Saint-Aignan, Governor (1696–1700) Mediterranean French Malta Claude-Henri Belgrand...
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    there were four hospital ships in service, rising to five in 1693 and six in 1696. In addition to their sailing crew, these seventeenth century hospital ships...
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  • February 1696. She was with Berkeley's Main Fleet in 1696. Her final commander was Captain Charles Strickland, RN at Guernsey on 7 August 1696. Larke was...
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    disable it, carrying artillery and prisoners away and bringing them to Guernsey. Benbow was still dissatisfied with the overall result and initiated a...
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  • "Koning William (or Koning Willem) (+1696)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 22 July 2014. Lettens, Jan. "HMS Sapphire (+1696)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 14 September...
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    off the coast of Flanders and gains control of the English Channel 1342 Guernsey 1350 August 29 (Old Style) L'Espagnols-sur-Mer – 50 English ships under...
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  • Commander-in-Chief Royal Indian Air Force and Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey. Houndhill and its surrounding farmland suffered from severe coal mining...
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    fireship HMS Charles. In May he moved to the 18-gun frigate HMS Swallow Prize. In Swallow Prize Hardy served in the Channel Islands protecting Guernsey merchant...
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    Barbon) in 1695, and a currency shortage occasioned by the Great Recoinage of 1696, both threatened the bank's position; but Parliament intervened, passing...
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    Blackwall (1696) – captured by France 1705 Guernsey (1696) – broken up 1716 for rebuild Nonsuch (1696) – broken up 1716 for rebuild Warwick (1696) – broken...
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  • Congress. 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoria which sinks taking 358 crew...
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    featured in the State of Origin series between 1977–1998 on the various guernsey designs (with some variations contrasting the swan depicted in the colours...
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    unfortunately died while in action against seven Algerine pirateers with Guernsey in 1670. On 23 July 1670 Captain John Ashby took command until 30 December...
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  • 1685 Chippenham (March 1685-death) Sir Bourchier Wrey, 4th Baronet 1653 1696 Liskeard (1678–79 and 1689-death), Devon (1685–87) Sir Henry Hobart, 4th...
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    Trinidad in 1797. A second battalion was formed in 1795 and stationed in Guernsey before being shipped to Martinique, where it was disbanded in 1797, its...
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    John Small (died 1796), British Army officer and Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey Dr John Small (1823–1879), British Deputy Surgeon General James Dunlop...
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    engaged in a Raid on Chignecto (1696) and the siege of the Capital of Acadia at Fort Nashwaak. After the Siege of Pemaquid (1696), d'Iberville led a force of...
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    HMS Boadicea was a frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the Channel and in the East Indies during which service she captured many prizes. She participated...
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  • penalty for treason in 1662, he remains incarcerated on the island of Guernsey for the rest of his life until his death at age 64 on March 1, 1684. March...
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  • "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (1690). 31 January 1752. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (1696). 21 February 1752. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (1700). 6 March 1752. "(untitled)"...
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  • December 1843. col B, p. 7. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 1696. Liverpool. 10 November 1843. "Ship News". The Morning Post. No. 22736. London...
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  • Lloyd's List (1681). 14 June 1785. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1696). 5 August 1785. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1690). 15 July 1785...
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