frigate Gloucester (spelt Glocester by contemporary sources) was a Speaker-class third rate, commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Gloucester after the...
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been named HMS Gloucester, after Gloucester, the city in England. HMS Gloucester (1654) (also Glocester) was a 54-gun ship launched in 1654 and wrecked...
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broke apart. Of 107 passengers aboard, 21 survived. 86 1682 England HMS Gloucester (1654) - wrecked off the port of Yarmouth while carrying James, Duke of...
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over the Royalist forces during the English Civil Wars. She was ordered in 1654 as one of a programme of four second rates, intended to carry 60 guns each...
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in London. 6 May – while on passage from Portsmouth to Scotland, HMS Gloucester (1654) runs aground on a sandbank off the Norfolk coast and sinks. The...
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service off Barfleur Happy Return was amongst those warships led by HMS Gloucester which was commissioned to convey James Stuart, Duke of York (the future...
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2007 off the Norfolk coast of England by divers is disclosed to be HMS Gloucester (1654) which ran aground on a sandbank in 1682 with the future King James...
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HMS Swiftsure was a 42-gun great ship of the English Royal Navy, built by Andrew Burrell at Deptford and launched in 1621. She was rebuilt in 1654 at Woolwich...
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Nassau' (1654)". "Dutch Sixth Rate ship of the line 'Zeelandia' (1652)". "Dutch Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Delft' (1658)". became HMS Delft became HMS Zealand...
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of HMS Gloucester was found 28 miles (45 km) off the Norfolk coast, the finding of the ship's bell ruled out the possibility of the wreck being HMS Kent...
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the Norfolk coast of England which in 2022 will be disclosed to be HMS Gloucester (1654) which ran aground on a sandbank in 1682 with the future King James...
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actions. At the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, he was captain of HMS Gloucester, the flagship used by James, Duke of York at Lowestoft in 1665. The...
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warship HMS Gloucester when was conveying James Stuart, Duke of York (the future King James II of England) to Scotland. On 6 May 1682, Gloucester struck...
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Four Days Battle, 1666 Gloucester 50 (1654) – Rearmed to 54, rearmed to 60, wrecked 1682 Plymouth 52 (c. 1653) Torrington 52 (c. 1654) – Renamed Dreadnought...
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Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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to submit to peace. July 30 – Eleven-year-old Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, dies of "a malignant fever" at Windsor Castle, leaving the Protestant...
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List of shipwrecks in the 17th century (section 1654)
date — Unknown vessel: Wrecked on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. 6 May — HMS Gloucester ( Royal Navy) - The Speaker-class frigate ran aground off Great Yarmouth...
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by his oldest surviving son, John, who lost his life by the wreck of HMS Gloucester in 1682. His grandson, Charles, became the 1st Earl of Hopetoun. Lee...
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fleet had been much expanded, and Rupert had three ships, HMS Royal Charles, HMS Royal James and HMS Royal Oak, equipped with a high-specification, annealed...
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turned against him. On 6 May 1682, James narrowly escaped the sinking of HMS Gloucester, in which between 130 and 250 people perished. James argued with the...
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leaving Cornwallis isolated. An attempted breakout over York River at Gloucester Point failed due to bad weather. Under heavy bombardment with dwindling...
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1720, renamed San Carlos, BU 1733 ? (ex-French, sold 1711, ex-British Gloucester 60, captured 1709) - Sold to Spain 1720, renamed Conquistador, Stricken...
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from the Dutch, hulked 1675, broken up 1703 Montague 62 – built as Lyme in 1654, rebuilt as Montague in 1675 and again rebuilt in 1698 Constant Warwick (1645)...
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captured 1708) – To Britain, to Russia 1712 as Viktoria Gloucester 60/64 (ex-British Gloucester, captured 1709) – To Genoa 1711, to Spain 1720, renamed...
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Scotland. The following year, his father drowned with the sinking of HMS Gloucester in 1682. Traveling with the Duke of York, family tradition has that...
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Sidenham: November 1652. Thomas Bantiff: January 1653. William Hilton: August 1654. Colonel Charles Howard: January 1655. Sir Thomas Widdrington: September...
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April 1650, provided the prototype for the class. Launched between 1650 and 1654, Speaker-class warships were about 750 tons and carried between 48 and 56...
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Metropolitan Railway is extended from Paddington (Bishop's Road) station to Gloucester Road via Bayswater and Notting Hill Gate Underground stations. 24 November:...
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of piracy although he is later reprieved. January 27 The crew of the ship HMS Welfare, commanded by John Strong, become the first European people to land...
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Institute Press. ISBN 087021330X] Portia Hall, Walter Powell MP Balloonist (Gloucester, Great Britain: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1985), ISBN 0-9507937-1-X. Bevan...
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