HMS Orion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the Canada class, by...
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been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology: HMS Orion (1787) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1787 and broken...
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HMS Vanguard was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 March 1787 at Deptford. She was the sixth vessel to bear the name...
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Look up Orion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orion may refer to: Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter Orion (mythology), a hunter...
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November and St Vincent detached three ships of the line, HMS Leviathan (1790), HMS Orion (1787), and HMS Princess Royal (1773) three frigates and several smaller...
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returned to fire on Colossus, but at that moment Edward Codrington's HMS Orion came through the smoke, slipped under Swiftsure′s stern and discharged...
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HMS Colossus was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Gravesend on 4 April 1787 and lost on 10 December 1798. During...
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Orion was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. In 1790, Orion was under Buor de La Charoulière. She took part in fighting on the...
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up, 1834 HMS Majestic Builder: Adams & Barnard, Deptford Ordered: 23 August 1781 Launched: 11 December 1785 Fate: Broken up, 1816 HMS Orion Builder: Barnard...
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The Bounty (1984 film) (category Films about HMS Bounty)
drama film directed by Roger Donaldson. It depicts the voyage and mutiny of HMS Bounty, with Robert Bolt's screenplay adapting the 1972 book Captain Bligh...
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for the EIC HMS Orion – a 74-gun ship of the line launched at Barnard's Thames Yard in 1787 Airly Castle – launched at Deptford in 1787 for the EIC Boddam...
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Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
USS Ericsson, Fox Other incidents 7 Jan: HMS Orion, HMS Revenge 18 Jan: Sarah Dixon 21 Jan: Fürst Bismarck 2 Feb: HMS Hazard 12 Feb: Grängesberg 12 Mar: Pisagua...
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the dockyard. In 1787, Hayes was sent to the ship of the line HMS Orion under Sir Hyde Parker. In 1790 he moved to the frigate HMS Pearl under Captain...
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HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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Flotilla. HMS Victory HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales HMS Daring – completing refit, scheduled to return to the fleet in 2024 HMS Dauntless HMS Diamond...
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line in March 1786. In September 1787, he was given command of the brig Vaneau, and of Boulonnaise from November 1787 to March 1790. From October 1790...
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Téméraire-class ships Fight of the Poursuivante against the British ship HMS Hercules, 28 June 1803 Stern of a model of the Triomphant Battle between...
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French frigate Pomone (1785) (redirect from French frigate Pomone (1787))
the action of 23 April 1794. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Pomone and the Endymion-class frigates were built to her lines, but with...
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Ça Ira in April 1794, then Agricola in June 1794, BU 1803. Orion 74 (launched 18 April 1787 at Rochefort) – Renamed Mucius Scaevola in November 1793, then...
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three merchant ships. 28 June Battle of the Espero Convoy British cruiser HMS Orion sinks Italian destroyer Espero 3 July Mers-el-Kebir – British fleet attacks...
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Portsmouth, England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking there into naval service. H.M.S. Defiant (Lewis Gilbert...
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Brunswick 80 (1855) – laid down 1847, converted to screw 1854–55 Orion class (Edye & Watts) Orion 80 (1854) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 91-guns 1852–54...
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ISBN 978-0553392593. Rose, Michael (2013). Washington's War: From Independence To Iraq. Orion Publishers. ISBN 978-1780227108. Rossman, Vadim (2016). Capital Cities:...
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have taken part in the Storming of the Bastille. Nicolas Savin (1768 or 1787–1894) – France. Claimed to have enlisted in 2nd Regiment of Hussars in 1798...
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encountered the Intrépide and fought her continuously for 40 minutes until HMS Orion arrived and the French ship surrendered as she was outnumbered. In this...
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Miller had commanded HMS Captain as Nelson's flag captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, where Troubridge had commanded HMS Culloden. The Battle...
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Bay". HMS Pandora, under the command of Admiral Edward Edwards (Royal Navy officer), visited the island in 1791 during its search for the H.M.S. Bounty...
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battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth (both of which, after months of work, were refloated and returned to action), wrecked the heavy cruiser HMS York...
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line HMS Orion in the spring of 1805 which was attached to Admiral Nelson's fleet off Cadiz in the blockade of the combined fleet. Codrington and Orion were...
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Because its citizens favored a weaker central government, it boycotted the 1787 convention that had drafted the United States Constitution, which it initially...
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