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    HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 20 September 1693. Medway, together with Chatham...
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  • the Royal Navy have been named HMS Medway, after the River Medway. HMS Medway (1693), a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1718 and hulked in...
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  • Raid on the Medway in 1667. The second HMS Royal Charles (1673) was a 100-gun ship of the line, launched in 1673, renamed Queen in 1693, rebuilt in 1715...
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  • borne the name HMS Rochester, after the town of Rochester on the River Medway: HMS Rochester (1693) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1693. She was rebuilt...
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  • and renamed HMS Talbot. She was renamed HMS Medway II in 1943, and Medusa again in 1944. She was sold in 1946 and broken up in 1947. HMS Talbot was also...
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    HMS Sheerness (1691) HMS Medway (1693) HMS Newcastle (1704) HMS Scarborough (1711) HMS Montreal (1761) HMS Solebay (1763) HMS Winchelsea (1764) HMS Carysfort...
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  • HMS Medway's Prize was a 28-gun sixth rate taken by HMS Medway on 17 August 1704. She was registered as a Royal Navy Vessel on 6 September 1704. She was...
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  • Antoine (1693), and the Jacobite privateer Prince of Wales (1693). In April 1695 he was created commander of the newly completed 4-gun HMS Comet, serving...
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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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    Fourth rates of 60 guns Medway 60 (1693) Carlisle 60 (1693) – wrecked 1696 Winchester 60 (1693) – sank 1695 Canterbury 60 (1693) Sunderland 60 (1694) –...
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  • on 27 February 1693 on appointment to the command of the sixth-rate HMS Swift Prize. He transferred to the command of the fourth-rate HMS Portland in January...
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  • Raid on the Medway: The fireship Susanna ( Dutch Republic Navy) was expended in battle. 11 June — Raid on the Medway: The fireship HMS Barbadoes Merchant...
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    Promoted to captain in 1693, Hardy served in the Channel Islands and off the coast of England until 1702 when he was given command of HMS Pembroke off the coast...
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    fleet under Admiral George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth, based in the River Medway during the events of the Glorious Revolution. Legge failed to intercept...
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    destroys part of French fleet at Martinique 9–14 June Raid on the Medway – Dutch raid Medway river near London. The English flagship, Royal Charles, is captured...
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  • them in English waters. It was during this period that the Raid on the Medway (1667) took place, the worst naval defeat in English history. The Third...
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  • Tobias Jones (1797–1895) – United Kingdom. Served in the Royal Navy on HMS Medway. Participated in the 1814 capture of USS Syren. Also a Napoleonic Wars...
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  • Tobias Jones (1797–1895) – United Kingdom. Served in the Royal Navy on HMS Medway. Participated in the 1814 capture of USS Syren. Also a Napoleonic Wars...
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    Kingdom. The Royal Navy has a ship on permanent station in the Caribbean, HMS Medway, and from time-to-time may send another Royal Navy or Royal Fleet Auxiliary...
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    College. The university has other campuses at Avery Hill in Eltham and at Medway. The Greenwich campus also houses the Trinity College of Music. Secondary...
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    54-gun ship was captured on 19 August by the Royal Navy's HMS Chatham, HMS Medway and HMS Triton. HMS Blackwall ( Royal Navy): The 50-gun fourth rate was captured...
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    Lebanon, when the fleet's flagship, the battleship HMS Victoria, collided with the battleship HMS Camperdown. Victoria sank within fifteen minutes, taking...
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  • between England and the Netherlands. Close victory for England. Raid on the Medway aka Battle of Chatham 19 - 24 June – England's largest naval defeat in history...
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    appointed to the Barfleur, and as commander-in-chief in the Thames and Medway. In May he was ordered round to Spithead to join Shovell, who was then preparing...
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    magazine was built on St. John Demi-Bastion sometime between the 1620s and 1693. Two other magazines were built on St. Martin Cavalier and St. John Cavalier...
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    1677 W. Hewer 1684 J. Walbanke 1687 S. Atkins 1689 M. Tindall 1692 S. Pett 1693 J. Burchett 1694 G. Larkin 1697 J. Fawler 1703 W. Rock 1707 M. Ferrabosco...
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    Anthony Sturt 1690-1693. James How 1690-1699. John Agar 1690-1699 Humphrey Ayles 1690-1702. Thomas Papillon 1690-1702 Simon Mayne 1693-1695. Israel Fielding...
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    altogether. This situation described was further exacerbated by the disaster of HMS Captain in 1870, a poorly-designed new vessel for the navy. The responsibility...
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    defensive chains guarding the Medway and wrought havoc on the English ships as well as the capture of the Royal Navy's flagship HMS Royal Charles) saw the war...
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    York (1676) Commodore Ralph Wrenn (1692) N Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Wheler (1693) Vice-Admiral John Benbow (1702) N Commodore William Whetstone (1702–03)...
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