• Royal Admiral was an East Indiaman, launched in 1777 on the River Thames. She made eight trips for the East India Company (EIC) before she was sold. She...
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  • the EIC, but that the Royal Navy purchased before she launched. Royal Admiral (1777 ship), of 498 tons (bm), made eight voyages for the EIC between 1778...
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    Royal George was a three-decker East Indiaman launched in 1777. She made one voyage to Madras and China for the British East India Company. Her voyage...
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    HMS Lion was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of the Worcester class, launched on 3 September 1777 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She fought...
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    Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish sailor, merchant, and naval commander who served...
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    This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list starts from...
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    HMS Royal George was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A first-rate with 100 guns on three decks, she was the largest warship in the world at the time...
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    evolved into the post of Admiral of the Fleet. In the days of sailing ships the admiral distinctions then used by the Royal Navy included distinctions...
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  • Surprise, the first American naval ship of the name, was a sloop that the Continental Navy purchased in 1777. The Royal Navy had purchased a vessel named...
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    Formidable was a 98-gun second rate man-of-war serving the Royal Navy. She was launched on 20 August 1777 at Chatham Dockyard. She had a fitted weight of 1945...
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    Henry Vansittart (17 April 1777 – 21 March 1843) was a British Royal Navy vice admiral. Vansittart was the fifth son of George Vansittart (1745–1825)...
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  • Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Hall Gage GCB, GCH (2 October 1777 – 4 January 1864) was Second Sea Lord in the British Navy. He took part in the Battle...
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    HDMS Justitia was a Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy ship-of-the-line, built to a design by Henrik Gerner. Although launched in 1777, she was not fully commissioned...
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    Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith GCB GCTE KmstkSO FRS (21 June 1764 – 26 May 1840) was a British Royal Navy officer. Serving in the American and French...
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    Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Fremantle, Bt GCB GCH (20 November 1765 – 19 December 1819) was a British Royal Navy officer and...
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    him at The Royal Hospital School, Suffolk.[citation needed] His brother, Admiral Sir Samuel Hood (1762–1814). His cousin once removed, Admiral Samuel Hood...
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  • HMS York (category Royal Navy ship names)
    Royal Admiral; purchased on the stocks 1796 and converted; wrecked 1804 HMS York (1807), 74-gun third rate launched 1807; converted to a convict ship...
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    Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland KCB (7 September 1777 – 30 November 1839) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and...
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    Sir John Ross CB (24 June 1777 – 30 August 1856) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored...
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  • Admiral George Wilson (4 March 1756 – 6 March 1826) was an officer in the Royal Navy who saw service in the American Revolutionary War and the French...
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    Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with...
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    Richard Kempenfelt (category Royal Navy admirals)
    Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt (1718 – 29 August 1782) was a Royal Navy officer best known for his victory at the Battle of Ushant in 1781 and dying when...
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  • Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (1719–1777), and Catherine Hill, and was thus a nephew of Lieutenant-General Robert Pigot and Admiral Hugh Pigot, and a cousin of...
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    Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet, KB (27 November 1762 – 24 December 1814), of 37 Lower Wimpole Street, London, was an officer of the Royal Navy...
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    Thomas Mansell (category Royal Navy rear admirals)
    KCH (9 February 1777 – 1858) was a British Royal Navy rear admiral. Mansell son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey, was born on 9 February 1777. He entered the...
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    headed the Royal Danish Naval Academy from 1724 to 1841, and was the owner of Petersgaard at Vordingborg. Wulff was born on 21 February 1777 in Copenhagen...
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  • HMS Antelope (1703) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Antelope was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Rotherhithe on 13 March 1703. She was rebuilt once during her career...
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  • Rear Admiral (RAdm) is a flag officer rank of the British Royal Navy. It is immediately superior to Commodore and is subordinate to Vice Admiral. It is...
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  • Henry Heathcote (category Royal Navy admirals)
    Sir Henry Heathcote (20 January 1777 – 16 August 1851) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
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  • Hotham (section Ships)
    Frederick Hotham (1843–1925), British Royal Navy Admiral who was Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth Henry Hotham (1777–1833), British naval officer who served...
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