• HMS Swallow was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Peirson Lock to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at the Yard...
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  • 1728. HMS Swallow (1732) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1732. She was renamed HMS Princess Louisa in 1737 and was broken up in 1742. HMS Swallow (1744)...
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  • yacht at Plymouth HMS Lichfield (1730) 50-gun ship of the line at Plymouth HMS Saltash (1732), 8-gun sloop at Plymouth HMS Swallow (1732) 60-gun ship of...
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  • HMS Princess Louisa. She was wrecked in 1736. HMS Princess Louisa was a 60-gun fourth rate launched as HMS Swallow in 1732 and broken up in 1742. HMS Princess...
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    given command of the 6-gun fireship HMS Charles. In May he moved to the 18-gun frigate HMS Swallow Prize. In Swallow Prize Hardy served in the Channel Islands...
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    of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in the...
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    February 1721, Atkins sailed from Spithead for the coast of Guinea with the Swallow and the Weymouth, sent to put down piracy on the west coast of Africa....
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    Letter of Marque sloop "Swallow". In September 1777 while on station in Jamaica she captured the American privateer Swallow and with HMS Ruby also captured...
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    initially in the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and then transferred to the fourth-rate HMS Reserve in November 1678 and to the fourth-rate HMS Mary Rose in June 1679...
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  • 1729 Launched Royal Sovereign 1732 Designed Spy 1732 Launched Spy 1732 Appointed Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard. 1732? Superannuated with a pension...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 8 August 1693. She was one of two 50-gun...
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    English navigator Samuel Wallis, on board HMS Dolphin, accompanied by Philip Carteret on the consort ship Swallow. In August 1766, the two ships passed through...
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  • Edward Jacobowsky DMP · 705 706 Hirundo 1910 KX The bird genus Hirundo (swallows) DMP · 706 707 Steina 1910 LD Mr. Stein, a benefactor of the Breslau Observatory...
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  • T-2 The sand martin (Riparia riparia), a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family JPL · 8599 8600 Arundinaceus 3060 T-2 The great reed warbler (Acrocephalus...
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    Windsor 60 (1729) – rebuilt 1745 Deptford 60 (1732) – reduced to 50 guns 1752, sold 1767 Swallow 60 (1732) – broken up 1742 Tilbury 60 (1733) – burnt 1742...
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    Greenhithe, in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred...
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    Affairs Rauf Bey and British Admiral Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, on board HMS Agamemnon in Moudros harbor on the Greek island of Lemnos, and it took effect...
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    purchased by the Royal Navy. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick (to avoid confusion with the newly commissioned HMAS Adelaide), and...
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    at Le Havre – captured by the English Navy November 1704, becoming HMS Swallow's Prize, 32. Victoire, 26 guns, design by René LeVasseur, launched September...
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  • employed as a journeyman (a runner) for Mr Moy, a velvet cap-maker on Swallow Street. Heavy drinking Moy leaves the socially aware Hawkes to cultivate...
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    Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several...
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    Navy, HMS Swallow fires its cannons as Roberts sails his ship Royal Fortune toward the oncoming Swallow in order to gain time by forcing Swallow to turn...
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    moments, he was given his breakfast, which he tried eating but was unable to swallow. His favorite niece, Nellie Madison Willis, who sat by to keep him company...
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    Antarctic was edited by Brian Roberts and posthumously published 1912 – A barn swallow ringed by James Masefield in Staffordshire, England is recovered in Natal...
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    HMS Conqueror sank the light cruiser ARA General Belgrano, but lost the destroyers HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry and the frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope...
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  • and so a new ship, HMS Centurion, and HMS Rippon which was due for rebuilding, were built with slightly altered dimensions. In 1732 the Admiralty decided...
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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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  • 1774-death) Lauchlan Macleane c. 1727 1778 (lost as passenger in foundering of HMS Swallow (1769) en route home from India) Arundel (1768–71) Governor of St Vincent...
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    The design depicts the silhouette of the barn swallow with the text ‘HIRUNDO RUSTICA’ (the barn swallow in Latin) at the top right, in semi-circle. At...
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