the name Stirling Castle in the English and Royal Navy. HMS Stirling Castle was awarded the Battle Honour Barfleur 1692. HMS Stirling Castle was ordered...
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have been named Stirling Castle (sometimes spelled 'Sterling') after Stirling Castle in Scotland, including: HMS Stirling Castle (1679), a 70-gun third-rate...
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off again, Atkins was tossed by a wave into HMS Stirling Castle, which sank soon after. From Stirling Castle he was swept into a boat by a wave, and was...
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12-pounder guns. HMS Northumberland was commissioned on 20 June 1679 under the command of Captain John Wetwang until 20 September 1679 for delivery to...
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Leakey. Wreck of SS Xantho found off Western Australia. Wreck of HMS Stirling Castle (1679) found on the Goodwin Sands. Wreck of English ship Swan (1641)...
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5068683 (HMS Stirling Castle (1679)) U-16 Kriegsmarine 25 October 1939 A German submarine that ran aground while under attack from HMS Puffin and HMS Cayton...
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but one of the 270 onboard including Rear admiral Basil Beaumont. HMS Stirling Castle with loss of 206. The Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth is destroyed...
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captured 1695 Elizabeth 70 (1679) – rebuilt 1703 Stirling Castle 70 (1679) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703 Breda 70 (c. 1679) – burnt 1690 Mordaunt 46...
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locally, lost with all hands HMS Stirling Castle, a 70-gun third-rate built at Deptford in 1679 The Woolwich fourth-rate HMS Mary, totally overwhelmed with...
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galleys). The first ship to be built at the dockyard, a 10-gun pinnace named HMS Merlin (or Merlyon), was launched in 1579. The dockyard received its first...
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exhibition". The Independent. 8 November 2016 Penny Guide to Stirling, Stirling Castle, Wallace Monument, Bannockburn, Etc. R.S. Shearer. 1895. p. 20...
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Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling. City status in the United Kingdom is conferred by the monarch through...
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1st Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard 1699 Launched Stirling Castle 1702 Appointed Master Shipwright at Harwich Dockyard 1702 Appointed...
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takes place, and regulations for traps. 22 March – A report prepared by Stirling University calls for artificial 3G football pitches to be banned in Scotland...
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colonization of North America was born in the town. John Kemble (c. 1599–1679), Catholic priest and martyr, was born at Rhydicar Farm, St Weonards, near...
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co-founder of Stagecoach Group James Stirling (1800–1876), builder of steam locomotives, brother of Robert Stirling Thomas Sutherland (1834–1922), founder...
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and fanatical idealists; Old Mortality (1816) with its treatment of the 1679 Covenanters as fanatical and often ridiculous (prompting John Galt to produce...
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tried, found guilty of witchcraft, and was burnt at the stake on 14 January 1679. The final chapter of the ill-fated 1715 Jacobite rebellion was also played...
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William Blackwood. "Glasgow", Scottish Tourist and Itinerary, Edinburgh: Stirling, Kenney, 1842 "Glasgow", Lizars' Scottish Tourist, Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars...
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illegitimate sons of the King, Charles II. HMS Lenox would be named for Charles Lennox, created the Duke of Lennox in 1675. HMS Burford would be named for Charles...
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shortcomings in the case. 8 March: Peckham Library opens; it is awarded the 2000 Stirling Prize. 9 March: The London Eye ferris wheel opens to the public. 22 April:...
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List of battles 1601–1800 (section 1679)
Falkirk (1746) 17 January – Jacobites defeat English dragoons. Siege of Stirling Castle 18 January-1 February - British government victory over the Jacobites...
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King Louis IX. April 28 – The 90-gun English Royal Navy warship HMS Windsor Castle is wrecked beyond repair on the Goodwin Sands. April – Tituba, a slave...
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(1837–1868) William Allen, 31 years (1900–1931) Richard Winwood, 30 years (1648–1679) Sir William Whitelock, 30 years (1659–1689) Sir Thomas Hanmer, 29 years...
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Battle of Happrew – 1304 – First War of Scottish Independence Sieges of Stirling Castle – 1304 – First War of Scottish Independence Action at Earnside – 1304...
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executed by strangulation on September 11. August 30 – Diplomats meet at Stirling Castle for the Masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, heir to the throne of...
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Covenanters) on the lands of Harelaw, in the Parish of Loudoun, on 1 June 1679, the worshippers were warned of the approach of John Graham of Claverhouse...
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collections.rmg.co.uk. Burke's Landed Gentry 1939, "Mitford of Mitford Castle",pages 1607–8 O'Byrne, William R. (1849). "Davies, Henry Thomas" . A Naval...
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Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1679) October 20 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685) October 28 – Anna...
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bomb largely destroyed the stand at King's Park F.C.'s Forthbank Park in Stirling, leading to the demise of the club. 16 September – World War II: British...
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