HMS Galgo was a Jamaican privateer that the Spanish Navy captured in 1797 and named Galgo Inglés (English greyhound), and that the British captured in...
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the end of 1744. HMS Galgo (1745) HMS Galgo (1799) was a Spanish 16-gun corvette captured in 1799 that foundered in 1800. HMS Galgo (1801) was the mercantile...
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Navy have been named HMS Chance: HMS Galgo (1799) was a Jamaican privateer that the Spanish Navy captured in 1797 and named Galgo Inglés (English greyhound)...
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Chance (ship) (section Chance (1799 ship))
was ashore at Bluff in 1902. HMS Galgo (1799) was a Jamaican privateer that the Spanish Navy captured in 1797 and named Galgo Inglés (English greyhound)...
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USS Insurgent (redirect from USS Insurgente (1799))
and the Caribbean on 14 August 1799. She arrived at Lisbon, Portugal on 13 September, She departed on 17 September with HMS Phaeton for the Straits of Gibraltar...
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cruising off Grenada when she encountered the Spanish corvette Galgo and captured her. Galgo, of 18 guns and 124 men, was under the command of Don Barber...
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Kent, launched in 1799, was an East Indiaman of the British East India Company. On her first voyage in 1800 she was on her way to Bengal and Bencoolen...
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captured, and later commissioned in the Royal Navy in 1799 as HMS Nimrod after her capture by HMS Solebay. She was then "the finest and most handsome ship-sloop...
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Confiance (1797 ship) (redirect from HMS Confiance (1805))
On 3 February 1799 Confiance captured Echo as Echo was sailing from the Cape of Good Hope for London. Confiance sent Echo to France. 1799 Confiance was...
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was renamed HMS Princess Louisa in 1737 and was broken up in 1742. HMS Swallow (1744) was a Merlin-class sloop launched in 1744 as HMS Galgo. She was renamed...
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Pickering from January through June 1799, when he was promoted to captain and took command of the frigate Essex. On 21 April 1799 she exchanged fire with Fort...
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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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Vengeance was re-armed with 18-pounders but not initially commissioned. After Galgo foundered in 1800, with heavy loss of life, the Admiralty issued an order...
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Martha was constructed in Sydney in 1799. She was a sealer and merchant vessel that was wrecked at Little Manly Cove in Australia in August 1800 with the...
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under William Lobb in April 1799 and sent to the West Indies. In November, while en route, she captured the 16-gun El Galgo. Then while serving on the...
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HMS Queen Charlotte was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1790 at Chatham. She was built to the draught of...
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retrieve the sloop Galgo from Mount's Bay, where she had taken refuge, having been dismasted in a gale. Atalante returned the next day with Galgo. That same day...
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HMS Hound was a brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She had a short history. After her launch in 1796 she captured two privateers and destroyed a third before...
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HMS Janus was a 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. Janus was a 44-gun, 18-pounder Roebuck-class ship. The class was a revival of the design...
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Royal Marine Artillery became experts in their use. The navy converted HMS Galgo and Erebus into rocket ships. The army became involved and was represented...
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promotion to lieutenant, and was attached to HMS Galgo two days later. In May 1803, he was appointed to HMS Conqueror with Captain Thomas Louis. With Israel...
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HMS Brazen was the French privateer Invincible General Bonaparte (or Invincible Bonaparte or Invincible Buonaparte), which the British captured in 1798...
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Martha 26 Sep: HMS Hound 8 Oct: HMS Diligence 9 Oct: HMS Galgo October (unknown date): Earl Talbot, HMS Martin 3 Nov: HMS Marlborough 9 Nov: HMS Havick, Hired...
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Anfitrite, Capitán de Fragata Don Diego Villagómez, and 16-gun ship-corvette Galgo Ingles, Teniente de Navío Don Josef de Arias. Captain W.G. Lobb of Crescent...
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encountered the Spanish frigate-built ship Galgo at 18°25′N 40°10′W / 18.417°N 40.167°W / 18.417; -40.167. Galgo had visited several ports but was most...
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HMS Marlborough was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 August 1767 at Deptford and built by the master shipwright...
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HMS Mastiff was launched at Hull in 1790, as Herald. From there she traded with the Baltic. The British Royal Navy purchased her in 1797, had her fitted...
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HMS Repulse was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1780 at East Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She saw action...
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circa 1786. She made three seal hunting and whaling voyages between 1791 and 1799 under that name. On the first of these a French privateer captured her, but...
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Dutch sloop Havik (1784) (redirect from HMS Havick (1796))
capitulation of Saldanha Bay. She then served briefly in the Royal Navy as HMS Havick (or Havik, or Havock) before she was wrecked in late 1800. Havik was...
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