HMS Strafford was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1706 Establishment at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 16 July...
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At 3 pm on 22 March 1740, the English squadron, composed of the ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the frigate Diamond, the bomb...
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(1703–1740), Governor of Barbados (1739–1740), from whom the Earls of Strafford stem. John Byng (1704–1757), Admiral controversially court-martialled...
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the third-rate HMS Defiance in December 1677. He then moved to the third-rate HMS Swiftsure in March 1678 and then to the fourth-rate HMS Newcastle in August...
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Navy. Dursley commanded HMS St George in 1706, and narrowly escaped the Scilly naval disaster in which Sir Cloudesley Shovell in HMS Association was lost...
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gunner in the second-rate HMS Neptune in 1683. Promoted to commander on 24 September 1688, he was given command of the bomb vessel HMS Firedrake and saw action...
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the next year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790. William sought to be made...
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and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate 1744, sold 1749 Strafford 50 (1714) – broken up 1733 Worcester 50 (1714) – broken up 1733 Panther 50 (1716) – hulked 1743...
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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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replacements for obsolete 50-gun ships. These were the Weymouth, Worcester, Strafford, Superb, Jersey, Augusta, Dragon, Lion, Kingston, Rupert and Princess...
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Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge 1850–1860: Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford Coldstream Guards (1855) 1860–1863: Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st...
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the Mediterranean after Jervis' departure in 1799. In 1762, HMS Gosport, HMS Danae and HMS Superb under Captain Joshua Rowley, convoyed the East and West...
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Commodore commanding the Mediterranean Fleet, (with his pennant in his old ship HMS Centurion intending to persuade the Dey of Algiers to restrain the piratical...
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Society of Jesus (d. 1798) March 17 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), England (d. 1791) March 18 Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish...
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c1573 1632 (died in Fleet Prison) Debtor Lancashire 1614 The Earl of Strafford Thomas Wentworth 1593 1641 (Beheaded) High treason Yorkshire Lord Lieutenant...
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French missionary (b. 1603) October 16 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, member of England's House of Lords (b. 1626) October 17 – Arthur Rawdon...
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Society of Jesus (d. 1798) March 17 – William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford (1722–1791), England (d. 1791) March 18 Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish...
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English politician (d. 1653) April 13 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641) April 19 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet,...
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