• Young William was a ship launched in 1794 at Whitby, Yorkshire, England. She made a voyage to Botany Bay for the British East India Company (EIC), and...
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  • Several ships have borne the name Young William: Young William (1779 ship) was launched at Whitby in 1779. She was captured and recaptured in 1814 and...
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    Ship and boat building in Whitby was a staple part of the industry of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England between the 17th and 19th centuries. In 1792 and...
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  • Latona was launched at Whitby in 1789. She made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC), one as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved...
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    Jenny's Adventure (1757) (category Whaling ships)
    arrived at Whitby from Greenland, carrying five "fish" (whales). On 26 March 1785, the Jenny's Adventure, Callender, master sailed from Whitby to Greenland...
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    on looking after Cornwallis into his old age. On Sir William Cornwallis' death in 1819, Mary Whitby and her daughter inherited his fortune. The Naval Chronicle...
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    prison ship Chatham 1812, powder magazine 1814, lazaretto Sheerness 1825, broken up 1826 Mars class (Henslow) Mars 74 (1794) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth...
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    HMS Adventure (1771) (category Ships built in Whitby)
    1770 at Whitby. In naval service she sailed with Resolution on James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific in 1772–1775. She was the first ship to circumnavigate...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1794 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1794. "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Artois' (1794)". Threedecks...
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    port town of Whitby to be introduced to Sanderson's friends John and Henry Walker. The Walkers, who were Quakers, were prominent local ship-owners in the...
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  • shipwrecks in 1794 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded or otherwise lost during 1794. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2614). 23 May 1794. "Country...
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    Cork, Ireland. Active ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by the Dutch while on a voyage from Whitby, Yorkshire to London. She was taken in to a Dutch...
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    the French coast. Hood therefore reinforced Nelson with extra ships during January 1794. A British assault force landed on the island on 7 February, after...
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    Blunt (2004), pp. 100–102. Anderson (1997), p. 64. Stöver (1794), pp. 81–82. Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2015). History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in...
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    HMS Minerva (1780) (category Ships built in Woolwich)
    his ship as a British prize, so Cornwallis ordered Strachan to tow her into Mahé and return her to the French commodore. In 1793, Captain J. Whitby took...
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  • Jonathan Scarth (category People from Whitby)
    Revolution. Jonathan Scarth was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, England, the son of Thomas Scarth, a Quaker ship owner. (His father did not remain a Quaker...
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    Trent–Severn Waterway (category Ship canals)
    Canada. This route, today known as Brock Street in Whitby, was rendered superfluous by the Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway (WPP&L), which ran beside...
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  • Robert Moorsom (category People from Whitby)
    Trafalgar, where his ship HMS Revenge was severely damaged and Moorsom was himself seriously wounded. Born into a seagoing family at Whitby in Yorkshire in...
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  • officer himself, later to become Admiral Sir John Laforey, 1st Baronet of Whitby. Francis' father was a senior government official in Antigua at the time...
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  • Sir William Morton, 23 years (1640–1663) Vincent Denne, 23 years (1658–1681) Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton, 23 years (1794–1817) William Peachy...
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  • Within the Liberty of Allertonshire: 342 men Within the Liberties of Whitby and Whitby Strand: 1025 men At Barton Cross in Ryedale Wapentake: 267 men with...
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    Ontario Highway 2 (category Transport in Whitby, Ontario)
    north. It bisected Pickering Village and passed through Ajax. Entering Whitby—where it intersected Highway 12 at Brock Street—Kingston Road became Dundas...
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  • Salvadore. Southern whale fisheries (1794–1796): Under the command of Captain William Irish, on 9 February 1794 Salamander sailed again for the New South...
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  • Jonny Briggs and the Whitby Weekend: Part 1 - Sausages Joan Eadington Bernard Holley 12-Mar-79 2456 Jonny Briggs and the Whitby Weekend: Part 2 - The...
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    insurrection in Glasgow, where a young, already twice bankrupted William Lyon Mackenzie was setting sail for Canada on a ship called Psyche. After the week-long...
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  • Wilkinson, French-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2022) 1930 – Joy Whitby, English director, producer, and screenwriter 1930 – Shirley Williams, English...
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  • example, Charles University of Prague in the Czech Republic and College of William and Mary in the United States). Other institutions may have received other...
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    Vict. c. 71) Judicial Committee Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 41) Timber Ships, America Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 17) An annuity of £1,500 a year. Slave...
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    of Scotland – Exodus of Norwegians in WWI History of Sweden (1772–1809) – 1794 Scandinavian wars History of whaling Invasion of Poland (1939) – Polish Navy...
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  • and to make Arrangements for the Use of certain Wharfs adjoining the Bute Ship Canal.}} | {{|Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Branch Railway Act...
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