Britannia was a ship launched at Sunderland in 1783. In 1791 she received a three-year license from the British East India Company to engage in whaling...
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Look up Britannia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Britannia may refer to any one of a large number of ships: Britannia (1772 ship) was launched at...
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Britannia, was a vessel launched in 1783 at Saltcoats, possibly under another name. She made four voyages from Liverpool as a slave ship in the triangular...
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Britannia, was a vessel launched at Maryport in 1783. She was commonly referred to as Britannia of Liverpool to distinguish her from the several other...
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Britannia was a 301 burthen ton full-rigged whaler built in 1783 in Bridport, England, and owned by the whaling firm Samuel Enderby & Sons. She also performed...
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a London-based transport. Although Britannia was built in South Carolina, she does not appear in a list of ships registered in the colony between 1734...
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The image of Britannia (/brɪˈtæniə/) is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield. An image first...
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purchased her and she became Britannia in 1787. She then sailed to the Baltic and Russia. She was wrecked in 1793. Sally (1783 ship) was launched in France...
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Blenheim may have been launched in 1776 in Philadelphia as Britannia. By 1777 she was the Massachusetts-based privateer American Tartar and had taken...
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HMS Barfleur (category Royal Navy ship names)
guns, and hulked in 1764. She was broken up in 1783. HMS Barfleur (1768) was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1768, and later increased...
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by the French ship Duguay-Trouin and blown up in 1714. Blenheim (1783 ship) may have been launched in 1776 in Philadelphia as Britannia. By 1777 she was...
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The list of ship launches in 1783 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1783. "French Sixth Rate flûte 'La Désirée' (1783)". Threedecks...
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in the 1780s. Bud (1783 ship) was launched at Liverpool in 1783. Between 1783 and 1800, she made 12 complete voyages as a slave ship in the triangular...
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HMS Prince of Wales (category Royal Navy ship names)
first rate launched in 1860. She was converted to a training ship and renamed HMS Britannia in 1869, hulked in 1909 and sold in 1914. She was finally broken...
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Boyd was a brigantine built in 1783 at Limehouse on the river Thames, England. She originally traded as a West Indiaman, sailing between London and Saint...
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ship 1864, sold for breaking 1885 Prince of Wales 121 (1860) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856–60, renamed Britannia to replace original ship...
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Britannia was built in France in 1774. The British captured her in 1781 and she began sailing under the name Sally, first as a transport and then as a...
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Duckenfield Hall was launched on the Thames in 1783. She spent most of her career trading with the West Indies. She made one voyage for the British East...
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Bencoolen. Britannia reached St Helena on 24 July and arrived at Bencoolen on 27 November. She cruised the coast of Sumatra between Pring (12 January 1783) and...
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HMS Hinchinbrook (category Royal Navy ship names)
named Britannia and then the privateer American Tartar. The Royal Navy captured her in 1777, used her as a slop ship from 1780 and sold her in 1783. She...
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their fourteenth ship, making Britannia the fourth ship of the windward column to join the action. Upon breaking the enemy line Britannia came up with and...
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of Brest, before being transferred to HMS Britannia, in which he served in the Mediterranean. In Britannia he acted as second in command at the battle...
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Battleship (redirect from Battle ship)
battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower. Before the rise of supercarriers, battleships...
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British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first prime minister of the United...
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East India Company (redirect from East India Company Act 1783)
deadline for the licensed exclusive trade by the company in India until 1783, in return for a further loan of £1 million. Between 1756 and 1763, the Seven...
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Steamship (redirect from Steam ship)
with the first working steamboat and paddle steamer, the Pyroscaphe, from 1783. Once the technology of steam was mastered at this level, steam engines were...
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other letters-of-marque ships (Lord North, Hector, Friendship, John, Byron and Britannia) in the capture of a Spanish built ship the Three Brothers. The...
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USS Alliance (1778) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
USS Alliance Ledger 1782–1783, which chronicles prize money distributed to the crew in the wake of the capture of Britannia, Anna, Commerce, and Kingston...
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squadron from the company's own ships to patrol the region. Two East Indiamen, William Pitt and Britannia, and the country ship Nonsuch were diverted from...
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HMS Victory (category 1765 ships)
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 246 years of service as of 2024, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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