HMS Torbay was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 16 December 1693. In 1707, she served as flagship...
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Navy have been named HMS Torbay, after Torbay on the southwest English coast. HMS Torbay (1693), an 80-gun second rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1719 and...
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Royal Navy to be named after Torbay in Devon, England. The first vessel was the 80-gun second rate HMS Torbay launched in 1693. She was the first vessel...
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commands that culminated in 1702 with Leake joining HMS Torbay. At Vigo Bay later that year Torbay broke the boom protecting a Franco-Spanish treasure...
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and instructed Rooke to intercept it in October 1702. The third-rate HMS Torbay, commanded by Thomas Hopsonn, led the assault on the boom across the bay...
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rate HMS Torbay. After taking part in the British defeat at the Battle of Toulon in July 1707 and, while sailing aboard his flagship HMS Torbay, Norris...
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Admiral Edward Russell in the first-rate HMS Britannia in December 1693. Byng was given command of the third-rate HMS Nassau in June 1702 and saw action at...
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Queen's Colour presentation aboard HMS Eagle in Torbay 28 June 1977, Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. HMS Blake and HMS Tiger both appeared. 1993 - Commemoration...
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make a successful landing at Torbay. Collins then served as commander of the yacht HMS Mary continuously until the end of 1693.[citation needed] Collins...
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aboard the third-rate HMS Resolution. Promoted to post-captain on 11 September 1693, he was given command of the fifth-rate HMS Sheerness in 1694 and...
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Robert Fairfax (Royal Navy officer) (section Torbay)
After the capture of Montjuich the prisoners were sent on board the Torbay. The Torbay supplied guns to arm the fort and sailors to haul them up the hill...
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fourth-rate HMS Swallow in the Thames; he was one of the captains who sent a letter to Prince William of Orange, who had just landed at Torbay, assuring...
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was appointed to the third-rate HMS Torbay in May 1699, but as the ship was not ready, he transferred to the storeship HMS Suffolk in Summer 1699 and then...
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up by 1763 Russell 80 (1692) Norfolk 80 (1693) Humber 80 (1693) Sussex 80 (1693) – wrecked 1694 Torbay 80 (1693) Lancaster 80 (1694) Dorsetshire 80 (1694)...
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List of shipwrecks in the 17th century (redirect from List of shipwrecks in 1693)
India Company vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic while on a voyage from Torbay to the Canaries. 18 August — Dom Duarte De Guerra ( Portugal): The Portuguese...
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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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the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009. "Torbay 2006–11 Local Transport Plan". Torbay Borough Council. Archived from the original on 15 August...
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Thomas Phillips (engineer) (category 1693 deaths)
Thomas Phillips (died 22 November 1693) was a Royal Navy officer and engineer who worked with some of the leading naval figures of his period, and was...
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West Country ports of Torbay, Plymouth and Exeter. Prior to the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, George assumed command of HMS Newcastle; claiming his...
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March by the Royal Navy's HMS Portland (1693). Dryade ( French Navy): The 46-gun ship was captured by the Royal Navy. HMS Falcon (): The 32-gun fourth...
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HMS Winchester at Portsmouth, and then Sir Charles Wager's flagship HMS Torbay at Kinsale, under the command of Vere Beauclerk. He served aboard HMS Faversham...
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garrison of Plymouth and defected to William III shortly after his landing at Torbay on 5 November 1688. After the outbreak of the Nine Years War in 1689, the...
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who has had ankylosing spondylitis since age 16. Stephen Darling, MP for Torbay since 2024, who has been registered blind since 1986, having been born with...
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Capture of the "Somers" and "Ohio", a provincial marker). Yet two days later, HMS Nancy was attacked in an engagement that involved three US warships (Battle...
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