• Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ruby: HMS Ruby (1652) was initially a 40-gun warship launched in 1652. She fought in the War of the...
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    HMS Ruby was an Emerald-class composite screw corvette that served in the Victorian Royal Navy. The Emerald class was a development of the wooden Amethyst...
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  • Ruby Prize was the French privateer Entreprenante, commissioned in 1693 at Brest, that HMS Ruby captured in 1694 and that the British Royal Navy named...
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  • HMS Ruby was a 40-gun frigate of the Commonwealth of England, built by Peter Pett at Deptford. She took part in actions during all three of the Anglo-Dutch...
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  • renamed HMS Kennington in 1735 and launched in 1736. HMS Mermaid was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1708 as HMS Ruby. She was renamed HMS Mermaid in...
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  • Launched November 1664 Completed January 1665 Captured September 1666 by HMS Royal James Fate Hulked in January 1686 at Portsmouth and taken to pieces...
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    HMS Ruby was one of 20 Acorn-class (later H-class) destroyers built for the Royal Navy that served in the First World War. The Acorn class were smaller...
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  • Look up Ruby or ruby in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ruby is a red gemstone. Ruby may also refer to: Ruby, Alaska Ruby, Arizona Ruby, Copiah County...
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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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    HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Bursledon in Hampshire to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals...
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  • HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Joseph Allin the elder at Deptford Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment, and...
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    Spanish vessel, but governor Thomas Lynch of Jamaica ordered HMS Ruby to give Bannister chase. Ruby was able to capture Bannister and take him to Jamaica where...
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  • for the local trade. Ruby was a French privateer that HMS Ruby captured in 1695 and that the British Royal Navy named HMS Ruby Prize and sold in 1698...
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  • naval encounter primarily fought between HMS Ruby and the French ship Solitaire off the coast of Martinique.  Ruby easily defeated Solitaire. By the end...
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    He attended the gunnery school HMS Excellent in 1880 and then joined the staff there in 1882. He returned to HMS Ruby on the South East Coast of America...
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  • 1746, he was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Augusta and then, later that year, the fourth-rate HMS Ruby, in which he took part in the raid on Lorient...
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  • have been named Rubis ("Ruby"), or Ruby as it was spelled until the 18th century: Rubis (1648), a 48-gun ship of the line. HMS Ruby (1666), originally Rubis...
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  • commanded, successively, the fifth-rate HMS Stag, the third-rate HMS Royal Oak and, finally, the third-rate HMS Ruby and took part in the action of 7 March...
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  • Ewer in the 'ADM' series Philemon Ewer at Maritime Memorials Greyladyes Arts Foundation (House built by 'The Master Shipbuilder') Career of HMS Vanguard...
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    Beatty left HMS Alexandra in March 1889 and joined the cruiser HMS Warspite in July 1889 for manoeuvres before joining the sailing corvette HMS Ruby in September...
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  • in 1781. On 13 October 1778, the squadron under Captain Joseph Deane in HMS Ruby captured Comte de Maurepas off Cap-François on 13 October 1778. Comte de...
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    fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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  • Anglo–Spanish War (1654–1660). Five English ships, HMS Henry, HMS Ruby, HMS Antelope, HMS Greyhound and HMS Bryan, appeared at six in the morning in the Bay...
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    Commanding Officer of the training ship HMS St Vincent in 1869, Commanding Officer of the corvette HMS Ruby in 1877 (in which he served during the Russo-Turkish...
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  • prejudice. In February 1701 Kirkby was appointed to command HMS Ruby in the West Indies. He moved to HMS Defiance in March that year, and was second in command...
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    1794, HMS Cleopatra in 1795, HMS Hussar also in 1795 and HMS Unite in 1796. In 1800 he took over HMS Prince George and in 1804 he was in HMS Ruby. In 1805...
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  • by Jamaican authorities for over two years, is captured and hanged on HMS Ruby in Port Royal. December – The Duke of Albemarle arrives in Port Royal as...
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    reproach. Walton kept the Ruby closely engaged, supporting Benbow aboard HMS Breda until the Ruby was disabled by French fire. Ruby being unable to contribute...
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  • Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire are 2014 remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance role-playing video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, also including...
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    Lestock. He was moved to HMS Sandwich in March 1745, and shortly thereafter to HMS Ruby. On 11 April 1746 Ruby, with HMS Defiance and HMS Salisbury, was dispatched...
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