HMS Woolwich was a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett III at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1675. She underwent...
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wrecked in 1675. HMS Woolwich (1675) was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1675, rebuilt in 1702 and 1741, and broken up in 1747. HMS Woolwich (1725) was...
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Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich...
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supporting King Charles I. She was widened in 1675 and underwent her first rebuild in 1698 at Woolwich Dockyard as a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line...
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HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in 1675. In the summer...
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the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett III at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1675. She was specially designed to counter the attacks of Algerine...
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60-gun ship of the line built at Woolwich HMS Mary (1694) was a 10-gun ketch of unknown origin that foundered in 1694. HMS Mary (1702) was a 4-gun smack...
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September 1674 Sapphire – launched 29 June 1675 Charles Galley – 32 guns, launched 1676, rebuilt 1693, renamed HMS Torrington in 1729 after two further rebuilds...
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Borough of Woolwich which lay south of the River Thames. Along with Blackheath Westcombe, Charlton, Glyndon, Woolwich Riverside, and Woolwich Common, it...
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Dockyard, dating from the late 15th century; it was followed by Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham and others. By the 18th century, Britain had a string of these...
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hurricane swept ashore 35 ships lying in other ports in Antigua, while HMS Hector and HMS Winchelsea, both moored in English Harbour, suffered no damage.[citation...
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preferred locations along the Thames to south coast ports, establishing Woolwich Dockyard in 1512, followed by dockyards at Deptford in 1513 and Erith in...
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HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate built at Woolwich Dockyard in 1677/79. She was delivered to Chatham and placed in Ordinary in 1679. She was commissioned...
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Portsmouth in 1654, renamed Montagu in May 1660 rebuilt Chatham 1675, rebuilt Woolwich 1698, rebuilt Portsmouth 1716 and broken in September 1749. She...
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purpose-built royal dockyards (the nearest being those on the Thames: Deptford and Woolwich). 1567 is generally seen as the date of Chatham's establishment as a Royal...
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HMS Sheerness (1691) HMS Medway (1693) HMS Newcastle (1704) HMS Scarborough (1711) HMS Montreal (1761) HMS Solebay (1763) HMS Winchelsea (1764) HMS Carysfort...
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2018. HMS Conqueror HMS Courageous (preserved in North Yard as a museum ship) HMS Sceptre HMS Spartan HMS Splendid HMS Sovereign HMS Superb HMS Tireless...
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William Phips (category People from Woolwich, Maine)
James and Mary Phips in a frontier settlement at Nequasset (present-day Woolwich, Maine), near the mouth of the Kennebec River, on February 2, 1651. His...
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whole of what is now Sagadahoc County. When King Philip’s War broke out in 1675, the plundering of one house was the only hostile act in Sagadahoc County...
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Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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Dutch, sold 1682 Oxford 54 (1674) – rebuilt 1702. Woolwich 54 (1675) – rebuilt 1702 Kingfisher 46 (1675) – a specialised fourth-rate designed for a role...
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HMS Adventure was a 34-gun fourth-rate of the English Navy, built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1646. With the outbreak of the...
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HMS Assistance was one of six 40-gun fourth-rate frigates, built for the Commonwealth of England under the 1650 Programme, after the Restoration of the...
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(begun 1806 at Flushing, frames taken to Woolwich after Flushing was taken by the British, and there launched as HMS Chatham on 14 February 1812) Castiglione...
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services depart at least every 20 minutes during commuter times. The Woolwich Ferry, with 2.5 million passengers every year, is a frequent service linking...
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a warship launch, a "briganteen of 23 oars," by the Knights of Malta in 1675: Two fryers and an attendant went into the vessel, and kneeling down prayed...
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early age he was apprenticed to master shipwright Christopher Pett at Woolwich Dockyard, and was appointed as the Dockyard's assistant shipwright in 1660...
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Dock opens 25 April: HMS Repulse, the last wooden battleship constructed for the Royal Navy, is launched as an ironclad at Woolwich Dockyard. 26 May: The...
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master gun-founder in the Netherlands and later at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (d. 1781) September 11 – Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti, Italian naturalist...
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Southwark, Stepney, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Westminster, and Woolwich (including North Woolwich). Westminster has been confirmed in its city status in the...
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