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    HMS Rodney was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1809 at Deptford. The Dockyard was suffering from a shortage...
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  • 1784. HMS Rodney (1809) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1809, razeed to 50 guns and renamed Greenwich in 1827, and sold in 1836. HMS Rodney (1833)...
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  • 1783. HMS Greenwich (1778) was a 12-gun sloop captured from the Americans in 1778 and wrecked in 1779. HMS Greenwich was previously HMS Rodney, a 74-gun...
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    HMS Akbar begun at Prince of Wales Island, Malaya and HMS Augusta at Portsmouth - were cancelled in 1809, while another two projected in 1807 - HMS Julius...
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  • control of Admiral George Rodney of the white squadron). From 1784 she was employed as a sheer hulk, and she was broken up in 1809. Lavery, Ships of the Line...
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    Henry Keppel (category 1809 births)
    swapped commands with the captain of the sailing line-of-battle ship HMS Rodney, whose crew were all ashore, in July 1855 and served as commander of the...
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    1812 (razeed 1827-30) HMS America of 1810 (razeed 1827-28) HMS Conquestador of 1810 (razeed 1827-31) HMS Rodney of 1809 (renamed HMS Greenwich 1826 and began...
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    court-martial for the loss of Agamemnon was held at Rio de Janeiro on 22 July 1809, aboard HMS Bedford. It was found that the ship might have been saved if she had...
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  • midshipman on the sloop HMS Speedwell, then captained by Commander John Harvey. Lee later transferred to the ship of the line HMS Triumph, which was attached...
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    Revolutionary War. He commanded the third-rate HMS Hannibal in the action of 10 April 1795 and then the third-rate HMS Centaur, capturing a French frigate squadron...
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    navigator, on HMS Resolution. Bligh was born in Plymouth in 1754 into a family of naval and military tradition—Admiral Sir Richard Rodney Bligh was his...
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    and by early 1809 he was aboard HMS Glatton, escorting a convoy back to England from Malta. He was then appointed to the 18-gun sloop HMS Acorn, which...
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    HMS Warrior was a 74-gun Alfred-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1781 at Portsmouth. A year after her launch...
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    George King (Royal Navy officer) (category 1809 births)
    commanded HMS Leander in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He commanded HMS Rodney from 1854 and HMS St Jean d'Acre from 1855. In September 1856, HMS St...
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    Saintes in April 1782 during the American Revolutionary War. He commanded HMS Stag at the defeat of the Dutch fleet in August 1795 during the French Revolutionary...
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    of the 74-gun HMS Alcide, she engaged in a running battle with the frigate HMS Apollo and struck when Rodney's flagship, the 98-gun HMS Sandwich, came...
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    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...
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  • John Bazely (category 1809 deaths)
    Admiral John Bazely (March 1740 – 22 April 1809) was an experienced and highly respected officer of the British Royal Navy who served in three wars and...
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  • Kitts). Probably served in Rodney and Hood's victory of 12 April 1782 at the Battle of the Saintes. November 1782: HMS Thetis, 38, Captain John Blankett;...
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    his godfather Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (third creation), (1723–1809), the first cousin of his maternal great-grandmother Anne Turner (1691–1768)...
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    Presidency of James Madison (category 1809 establishments in the United States)
    The presidency of James Madison began on March 4, 1809, when James Madison was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1817...
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    John George Lennox (3 October 1793 – 10 November 1873), married Louisa Rodney and had issue. Lady Sarah Lennox (c. 1794 – 8 September 1873), married Peregrine...
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    appointed captain of HMS Triumph in the Channel Fleet. In the spring of 1780 Affleck was sent to the West Indies to reinforce Admiral Rodney. He missed the...
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    HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 April 1759 at Chatham. Sandwich was a 90-gun second-rate Sandwich-class...
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    HMS Dryad was a fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy that served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression...
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  • ship of the line HMS Belleisle in the invasion of Martinique and HMS Pompee in the subsequent action of Action of 14–17 April 1809, capturing the French...
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    ship of the line HMS Boyne and in her joined the fleet under Sir George Rodney in the West Indies. The following year, Cotton joined Rodney in action at the...
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    HMS Cossack was a Royal Navy Banterer-class post ship of a nominal 22 guns, launched in 1806 at South Shields, England. She was ordered in January 1805...
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    held out. Jervis ordered the fourth-rate ship of the line HMS Asia (64 guns), and the sloop, HMS Zebra to take Fort Saint Louis. Asia was unable to get close...
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    Alexander Ball (category 1809 deaths)
    1st Baronet (Italian: Alessandro Giovanni Ball, 22 July 1757 – 25 October 1809) was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the Civil...
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