• HMS Claudia was an Adonis-class schooner of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic War. She was built at Bermuda using Bermudan cedar and completed in 1806...
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  • HMS Sealark was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner armed with four 12-pounder carronades and manned by a crew of 20. She was built by William Wheaton...
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  • HMS Pigeon (or Pidgeon) was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner. Custance & Stone built and launched her at Great Yarmouth in 1806. Like many of her class...
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    HMS Foxhound was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by King at Dover and launched in 1806. She participated in the battle of the Basque Roads in...
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    HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary...
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    1806 and some seven years later was a first lieutenant. In September 1822 merchants at Nassau equipped two sloops to cruise against pirates, with HMS Tyne...
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  • HMS Morne Fortunee was the French privateer Regulus that British Royal Navy captured in 1804. In 1806 the Royal Navy commissioned her. She captured some...
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  • comprising the ships of the line HMS Caesar, HMS Defiance, and HMS Donegal, the frigate HMS Amelia, and the brig-sloop HMS Doterel. In the ensuing Battle...
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  • Junon was a Gloire class 40-gun frigate of the French Navy. Launched in 1806, she saw service during the Napoleonic Wars, escorting merchant convoys to...
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    (1516–1588). Montevideo: Club Español. 2001. ISBN 9974-39-317-5. Simionato, Claudia G.; Vera, Carolina S.; Siegismund, Frank (2005). "Surface Wind Variability...
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  • Lloyd's List. No. 4052. 13 May 1806. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735022. Naval Chronicle, Vol. 15, pp.457-8. Monthly Magazine, (1 September 1806), Vol. 22, p.204. Biden (1830)...
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    HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley, converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport...
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    Britannia was launched in 1806 as an East Indiaman for the British East India Company. She made only one voyage for the company before a gale wrecked her...
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    morning of 23 October HMS Volontaire detected and reported the French squadron's position. The British gave chase, but lost contact. HMS Tigre detected Robuste...
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  • September. Captain Robert Wardlaw acquired a letter of marque on 8 February 1806. He sailed from Portsmouth on 30 March, bound for Madras and Bengal in a...
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    August 1782, the warship HMS Royal George capsized while under repairs and sank off Spithead, near the port of Portsmouth. HMS Royal George was the pride...
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    moved within The Hague to the Prince William V Gallery, on the Buitenhof. In 1806, the Kingdom of Holland was established by Napoleon Bonaparte. On the orders...
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    HMS Primrose was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Thomas Nickells (or Nicholls), at Fowey and launched in 1807. Primrose was built at Fowey...
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  • (1806). "The trial of David Robertson ... for an unnatural crime with George Foulston : tried before Sir Robert Graham ... on Saturday, May 24, 1806,...
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    Guinea to Brazil and the Caribbean. On 6 January 1806 the French squadron captured the 16-gun sloop-of-war HMS Favourite. The squadron also captured about...
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    Captain William Stanley Clarke acquired a letter of marque on 25 November 1806. He sailed from Portsmouth on 26 February 1807, bound for Bombay and China...
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  • hydrographer, Governor of New Zealand and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's second voyage of HMS Beagle, slit throat Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (172...
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  • Downs on 10 September. Captain Lindsay sailed from Portsmouth on 4 March 1806, bound for Madras and Bengal. Lady Jane Dundas reached Madras on 28 June...
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  • HMS Alcmene was a 32-gun Alcmene-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. This frigate served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars under the...
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    three). In 1806, aged 14, Williams entered the Royal Navy, serving on HMS Barfleur. He became a midshipman in 1807. He then served on HMS Maida under...
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    remote islands. He joined the Royal Navy Reserve in 1902 and served on HMS Swiftsure for a year before returning to the Merchant navy. In 1914, he joined...
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    who was in South America as part of the second voyaging expedition of the HMS Beagle, was one of the first to collect Toxodon fossils. In September-October...
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  • Napoleonic Wars. Ordered on 6 January 1806, Amphitrite was laid down at Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France, in August 1806. She was launched on 11 April 1808...
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  • comprising the ships of the line HMS Caesar, HMS Defiance. and HMS Donegal, the frigate HMS Amelia, and the brig-sloop HMS Doterel. In the ensuing Battle...
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    months. Deposed as Queen of Naples for a second time by French forces, in 1806, Maria Carolina died in Vienna in 1814, a year before her husband's restoration...
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