HMS Neptune was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built under the 1677 "Thirty Great Ships" Programme and launched in 1683...

amended in 1750, and launched on 3 March 1756. HMS Namur’s battle honours surpass even those of the more famous HMS Victory. Namur was the flagship of Vice-Admiral...

Lost at Sea. Methuen. ISBN 978-0413635402. Media related to HMS Royal George (ship, 1756) at Wikimedia Commons Royal George from Ships of the World: An...

John Henslow. She was one of three ships of the Neptune class, alongside her sisters HMS Neptune and HMS Dreadnought.[a] She was primarily made from English...

1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 25 September 1756. In 1756, one of the midshipmen on the Union was John Hunter, later to become...

Admiral William Cornwallis, with his flag in the 98-gun second-rate HMS Neptune. He went on to be governor and commander-in-chief of Newfoundland Station...

Count du Chaffault. The division met the 74-gun HMS Warwick; in the ensuing chase and Action of 11 March 1756, Warwick was captured. On a journey from France...

destroyed by the French. He was then given command of the second-rate HMS Neptune in August 1745. Despite having distinguished himself at Toulon, Hawke...

of the line, Leopard (built in 1756), Prince of Orange, Dublin (which returned from the West Indies in 1763), and Neptune. After this service at sea he...

Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...

Genoa in 1756–59 by Ange-Marie Rati, and purchased by France in 1760. Sainte Anne 64 – captured by the British in 1761 and added to the RN as HMS St Anne...

12 January 1748, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS Magnanime. She played a major part in the 1757 Rochefort expedition, helping...

the West Indies in 1763 and Neptune, before accepting an appointment at the Royal Navy's Chatham Dockyard. Short served on HMS Prince of Orange from 1759...

Griffin HMS Princess Mary (60 guns) HMS Medway (60 guns) HMS Exeter (60 guns) HMS York (60 guns) HMS Winchester (50 guns) HMS Harwich (50 guns) HMS Preston...

coast of North America. On 19 May 1756 he was appointed to the St. George, and on 1 June was ordered to turn over to HMS Namur. Three days afterwards a promotion...

an immediate return to duty. Captain Sir Erasmus Gower commissioned HMS Neptune (98 guns) in the upper Thames and put together a flotilla of fifty loyal...

HMS Blonde. Brune, (launched 7 September 1755 at Le Havre) – captured by British Navy 30 January 1761, becoming HMS Brune. Aigrette, (launched 1756 at...

Tyrell. In 1756/57 Temple West served as her Flag Officer. On 3 November 1758, Buckingham under the command of Richard Tyrell joined with HMS Weazel to...

Diligente 68 (launched 25 September 1756 at Ferrol) - Captured by Britain at the Battle of Cape Santa Maria, 1780, renamed HMS Diligence, BU 1784 Peruano 50...

HMS Cambridge was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Joseph Allin and built at Deptford Dockyard by Adam Hayes to...

campaign of 1756 HMS Kent, Kingfisher, and Tiger carried 300 Indo-Portuguese Topazes to capture the fortress of Gheriah on 14 February 1756. In 1756 war broke...

1743–4, when, in September, he was appointed to HMS Marlborough, and a few months later to HMS Neptune, carrying the flag of Vice-Admiral William Rowley...

1805, harbour service 1807, broken up 1833 Union 90 (1756) – hospital ship 1799, broken up 1816 Neptune 90 (1757) – sheer hulk 1799, broken up 1816 Third...

HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment...

HMS Crane was a modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton on 13 June 1941, launched...

suggests that Edwards may have sailed under Captain John Moore on HMS Devonshire in April 1756. His naval career after he was commissioned included service...

draught specified by the 1745 Establishment. HMS Temple Builder: Hugh Blaydes, Hull Ordered: 9 September 1756 Laid down: 17 November 1755 Launched: 3 November...

April – Sinking of the Moskva. RFS Moskva is struck by two Ukrainian R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles, causing a chain reaction of explosions and later the...

uncertain of victory. On 25 September he called a council of war aboard HMS Neptune, where debate included the prospect of French reinforcements and the...

Forbin's squadron captured three English ships — HMS Cumberland, HMS Chester, and HMS Ruby — and sank HMS Devonshire during the Battle at The Lizard. In...