HMS Cambridge was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Deptford Dockyard. On 14 March 1674, Cambridge, captained...
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have borne the name HMS Cambridge, after the English town of Cambridge or after one of the Dukes of Cambridge: HMS Cambridge (1666) was a 70-gun third...
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1666 (MDCLXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year...
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Thomas Hardy (Royal Navy officer, died 1732) (redirect from Thomas Hardy (Royal Navy officer, 1666–1732))
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (13 September 1666 – 16 August 1732) was a Royal Navy officer of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Having joined the...
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Second Anglo-Dutch War (redirect from Anglo-French War (1666–67))
Dutch States Navy was able to score a decisive victory, and by the end of 1666 the war had reached a stalemate. Although peace talks began, neither side...
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third-rate HMS Defiance and saw action at the St. James's Day Battle in July 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Promoted to post-captain in 1666, he was...
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an arm at the Four Days Battle in 1666 while commanding HMS Antelope. He was knighted in June the same year (1666). In 1667, Holles was elected Member...
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Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
John's College, Cambridge and joined the Royal Navy in 1666. Promoted to lieutenant in 1671, he was appointed to the fourth-rate HMS Advice and then transferred...
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Mottoes in South African Universities". "Home". sggs.co.za. Naval History: HMS Venetia (D 53) – V & W-class Destroyer Additional references Adeleye, Gabriel...
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Arthur William (RBN874AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Dawe (1983) Organists of the City of London 1666-1850 p.22 Dawe (1983) Organists...
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HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring to the fifth-rate HMS Nonsuch in July 1680. He returned to HMS...
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Parliament. Henry Killgrew entered the navy in 1666 at the rank of Lieutenant assigned to HMS Cambridge. He took part in the St. James's Day Battle. From...
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Juan Diego (section Informaciónes Jurídicas de 1666)
apparitions, giving many instances of his sanctity of life. Becerra Tanco (1666 and 1675). Juan Diego's town of origin, place of residence at the date of...
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Diamond (1652) Bonaventure 48 – previously named HMS President. Renamed HMS Bonaventure in 1660, rebuilt in 1666 and broken up for a rebuild in 1711. Re-launched...
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the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
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Robert Fairfax (Royal Navy officer) (category 1666 births)
Robert Fairfax (February 1666 – 17 October 1725) was a rear admiral and politician. Robert Fairfax was born in Newton Kyme, and baptised in the chapel...
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Edward Spragge in the 1666 Four Days' Battle. Thanks to these connections, at the age of twenty in April 1667 he was made Captain of HMS Pembroke, a 28-gun...
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the Dutch fleet at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665, and in 1666 he won a hard-fought victory in the Four Days' Battle in the southern North...
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Titus Oates (category Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Saints' Church at Hastings (1666–74).: 3 Oates was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and other schools. At Cambridge University, he entered Gonville...
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Great Plague of 1665–1666, which killed up to 100,000 people, or a fifth of the population. The Great Fire of London broke out in 1666 in Pudding Lane in...
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Southerton was renamed "Mistick" in 1665,: 26 and finally named Stonington in 1666,: 36 meaning "stony town". The town of North Stonington was set off as a...
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Churchyard, was destroyed with the Cathedral in the Great Fire of London in 1666. In 1884 a new building designed by the architect Alfred Waterhouse rose...
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Fitzrovia Duke of York, Ganwick Corner HMS Duke of York (1763), a 4-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1776 HMS Duke of York (17), a King George V-class...
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Company, but did not take an active role in its governance. In September 1666, Charles II put James in charge of firefighting operations during the Great...
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Navy, the designation HMS can refer to "His Majesty's Ship" or "His Majesty's Submarine", though the latter is sometimes rendered "HMS/m" and submarines are...
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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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vessels of the English fleet having been laid up. In 1668 he commanded on HMS Cambridge, but was the subject of an investigation by English Parliament, trying...
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Cambridgeshire Militia (redirect from Cambridge Trained Bands)
was also governor of Landguard Fort at Felixstowe. The Cambridge Militia were called out in 1666 when a Dutch invasion was threatened, and again the following...
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Seymour had been used for destroyers during World War I. HMS Rupert was the fifth of that name since 1666. Torrington was the fourth of that name since 1654...
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enforcing ship money to finance the building of such prestige vessels as HMS Sovereign of the Seas. But fearful of endangering his relations with the...
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