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    HMS Suffolk was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Sir Henry Johnson at Blackwall. She participated...
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  • Navy have borne the name HMS Suffolk, after the county of Suffolk: HMS Suffolk (1680) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1680, rebuilt in 1699, 1718 and...
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  • appointed first lieutenant of the 48-gun HMS Advice. On 25 September 1699, he succeeded his father as Vice-Admiral of Suffolk, several days before his father's...
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    Amagansett, New York (category Populated places established in 1680)
    corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the South Shore of Long Island. As...
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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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    Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk (category Suffolk Regiment officers)
    seems to have succeeded; although his father was charged with recusancy in 1680, the charge was quickly dropped. While the senior Howard line survived unscathed...
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    He then moved to the third-rate HMS Swiftsure in March 1678 and then to the fourth-rate HMS Newcastle in August 1680. In 1683 he ceased to be employed...
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    fourth-rate HMS Hampshire in the Mediterranean in July 1680 to the fourth-rate HMS St David in the English Channel April 1683 and to the fourth-rate HMS Deptford...
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  • General Francis Rawdon. In 1782 the regiment was designated the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot. In 1794 the regiment joined British forces already taking...
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    enemy privateers. The dockyard built many ships for the Navy, including HMS Conqueror which captured the French Admiral Villeneuve at the Battle of Trafalgar...
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  • ship HMS Matthias ( Royal Navy) was burnt by the Dutch. The guard ship HMS Sancta Maria ( Royal Navy) was burnt by the Dutch. The ship of the line HMS Vanguard...
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    The Town of East Hampton is a town in southeastern Suffolk County, New York United States. It is located at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long...
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    sources) was a Speaker-class third rate, commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Gloucester after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. The ship...
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    Continental Association (October 20) Petition to the King (October 26) Suffolk Resolves, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (September 9) Burning of the Peggy Stewart...
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    construct a new Third Rate ship of 500 tons at Woolwich Dockyard, to be named HMS Leopard. With the construction of the Leopard underway, Charles decided that...
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    Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates HMS Dundalk  Royal Navy 16 October 1940 A Hunt-class minesweeper that struck a mine and foundered under tow off...
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    appointed to the third-rate HMS Torbay in May 1699, but as the ship was not ready, he transferred to the storeship HMS Suffolk in Summer 1699 and then took...
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  • George Purvis (category 1680 births)
    Captain George Purvis (27 July 1680 – 8 March 1741), of Darsham, Suffolk, was a Royal Navy officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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    warships at Harwich Dockyard, this time as a private contractor; one of these, HMS Harwich, was considered by Pepys to be one of the finest vessels in the Navy...
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    (1679) – broken up 1736 for rebuild Kent 70 (1679) Exeter 70 (1680) – hulked 1691 Suffolk 70 (1680) – broken up by 1765 Hope 70 (1678) – captured 1695 Elizabeth...
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    the expedition against Mauritius was cancelled. On 2 May 1794, only HMS Suffolk and two sloops under Commodore Peter Rainier sailed for the east with...
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    Sovereign class along with a half-sister, HMS Hood – and two second-class battleships, HMS Centurion and HMS Barfleur were ordered. The Royal Sovereign...
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  • January 1994) Beaumaris, Anglesey (30 January 1994) Heveningham Hall, Suffolk (6 February 1994) Cork, Ireland (13 February 1994) Crawley (20 February...
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    Humphrey St John-Mildmay. Alexander Baring (1810–1832), who died on board HMS Alfred in the Mediterranean. Arthur Baring (1818–1838), who died unmarried...
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    to pledge allegiance to him before New Year's Day. September 3 – HMS Coronation and HMS Harwich are lost in a storm while making for shelter in Plymouth...
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  • of piracy although he is later reprieved. January 27 The crew of the ship HMS Welfare, commanded by John Strong, become the first European people to land...
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  • claiming victory. 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. 1863 – American...
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    The House of Burgesses established the "Towne of Lower Norfolk County" in 1680. In 1691, a final county subdivision took place when Lower Norfolk County...
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  • Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened. 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers...
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  • Regiment  South Africa – The Kimberley Regiment  Royal Navy – HMS Triumph  Royal Navy – HMS Lancaster The regiment have received the Freedom of several...
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