HMS Cormorant was probably launched in 1780 at Plymouth, Massachusetts. She was commissioned as the Massachusetts privateer Rattlesnake in 1781. The Royal...
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1762. HMS Cormorant (1776) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1776. She may have been at the Siege of Pondicherry (1778). The French captured her in 1781 off...
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privateer, ex-Cormorant of 1781. A 12-gun brig. The Algerine Navy and the Dey of Algiers detained her for five days in November 1784. Sold 1786. HMS Rattlesnake (1791)...
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the French Navy. Couronne was built at Brest, having been started in May 1781 and launched in August that year. She probably was built from the salvaged...
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HMS Narcissus was a Sphinx-class 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1781. Most notably in 1782, while she was under the command...
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HMS Argo was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1781 from Howdon Dock. The French captured her in 1783, but...
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commanded the 60-gun ship of the line HMS Rippon, and was assisted by HMS Coventry, HMS Seahorse, HMS Cormorant, and the East India Company's ship Valentine...
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appointed to the sloop HMS Cormorant and sailed for Jamaica in February 1795. He subsequently commanded HMS Hannibal, HMS Sampson and HMS Jamaica before being...
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HMS Sartine was a French merchant vessel from Bordeaux. The French Navy pressed her into service on 3 August 1778 to assist in the defense of Pondichéry...
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In 1776 he went out to the East Indies in command of HMS Cormorant, from which he was posted to HMS Rippon as flag captain to Sir Edward Vernon. In this...
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Glorieux, she captured HMS Cormorant off Charleston. In September, she took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September 1781, in the Battle of St...
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1818 on her way from Hull to Miramichi Bay. HMS Lynx (1794) was a 16-gun ship-rigged sloop of the Cormorant-class in the Royal Navy, launched at Gravesend...
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HMS America was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and was...
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HMS Seahorse was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1748. She is perhaps most famous as the ship on which a young Horatio Nelson...
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Expédition d'Irlande, she was scuttled on 30 December 1796. On 11 December 1781, Bussy-Castelnau departed Cadiz with a squadron comprising the 64-gun Saint-Michel...
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John Phillimore (category 1781 births)
20-gun HMS Cormorant, in October 1805. He commanded Cormorant in the North Sea until September 1806, when he was moved to take command of the 18-gun HMS Belette...
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Dolphin, Aurora, captained by Thomas Gordon Caulfield, the 20-gun, HMS Cormorant, the 16-gun, Peterel, three armed transports, a cutter, and a number...
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built by John Barnard at Barnard's Thames Yard at Deptford and launched in 1781 as an East Indiaman. She made five voyages for the British East India Company...
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Thames Yard at Deptford in 1774 HMS Cormorant a 14-gun sloop launched at the Nova Scotia Yard at Ipswich in 1776 HMS Zebra a 14-gun sloop launched at...
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seabirds include fairy prion (20,000 pairs), silver gull, black-faced cormorant and shy albatross (7,500 pairs). Mewstone is the largest of only three...
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September she reached Rio de Janeiro, and arrived at Madras on 10 January 1781. From there she sailed to Bengal, arriving at Kedgeree on 12 March. On 7...
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El Vincejo ( Spanish Navy): HMS Cormorant captured this 18-gun ship on 19 March; the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Vincejo. Eenroon ( Batavian...
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HMS Canada was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard. On 2 May 1781, Canada engaged...
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French ship Courageux (1753) (redirect from HMS Courageux (1761))
and a crew of 362. In 1781, Courageux was under the command of Lord Mulgrave, and in the action of 4 January 1781, she and HMS Valiant recaptured Minerva...
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later landing sailors and marines from his ships, which included HMS Cormorant and HMS Aurora, to support the Army. He was promoted to rear-admiral of...
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Lord Hawkesbury (1787 ship) (category 1781 ships)
Lord Hawkesbury was launched in the United States in 1781, probably under another name. She entered Lloyd's Register in 1787. She made six voyages as a...
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HMS Amphion was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Amazon class built in Chatham in 1780 which blew up on 22 September 1796. On 6 September...
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commander of the sloop HMS Cormorant. The following year, Payne was promoted to post captain and took over the prize frigate HMS Artois which he commanded...
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sloop HMS Cormorant and was sent home with the despatches. Promoted to captain on 22 March 1779, Pole became commanding officer of the first-rate HMS Britannia...
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Royal Charlotte (1789 EIC ship) (redirect from HMS Malabar (1795))
escorts. The Admiralty purchased Royal Charlotte in 1795 and renamed her HMS Malabar. She made a trip to the West Indies where she was the lead ship of...
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