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    HMS Cambrian was a Royal Navy 40-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was built and launched at Bursledon in 1797 and served in the English Channel, off North America...
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  • name HMS Cambrian, after Cambria, the classical name for Wales: HMS Cambrian (1797) was a 40-gun fifth rate launched in 1797 and wrecked in 1828. HMS Cambrian...
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    Centaur. HMS Leander then came under the command of Captains William Lyall and Henry Whitby. Leander, HMS Driver under Slingsby Simpson, and HMS Cambrian, under...
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    Forth 1814 – broken up 1819 HMS Cambrian 40-gun fifth rate 1797; designed by John Henslow – wrecked in the Mediterranean 1828 HMS Leander 50-gun (later 60-gun)...
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    HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built...
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    there 8 February. While in Singapore, Commodore Henry Ducie Chads of HMS Cambrian paid a visit to Constitution, offering what medical assistance his squadron...
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  • Spanish brig, Nostra Senora de la Solidad, then, on 16 October, she and HMS Cambrian captured a Spanish schooner. Her last recorded action against privateers...
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  • that HMS Zephyr captured off Dominica on 18 June 1797. Vengeur was a new privateer schooner of 12 guns and 72 men that HMS Indefatigable, Cambrian, and...
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  • Minerve and driving off Artémise. He later commanded HMS Diadem at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797 and served during the Napoleonic Wars on the Transportation...
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    Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7. Media related to HMS Naiad (ship, 1797) at Wikimedia Commons Woodland Trust website – Naiad Wood HMS Naiad Association...
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    eighty-six men on board. By 13 March Triton was sailing with the frigates HMS Cambrian, HMS Naiad, and St Fiorenzo, together taking the merchant brig Victoire...
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    the French Revolutionary Wars. In that capacity he served on the 100-gun HMS Queen Charlotte during the operations which culminated in the battle of the...
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  • to Britain before her marriage to Prince George. In 1797 he moved to HMS Cambrian and operated independently off the French Channel coast, sailing from...
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    Bullen was again on half pay. At the beginning of 1797, Bullen was appointed first lieutenant to HMS Monmouth and it was here he first met his new commanding...
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  • midshipman at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, serving aboard the 74-gun HMS Alexander, and took part in the Siege of Malta and subsequent operations...
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  • Florida where they were condemned as prizes. On 7 July the boats of HMS Cambrian ascended the St Mary's River. There they recaptured Golden Grove and...
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  • North America Station again, where he took command of the 44-gun frigate HMS Cambrian. In the following months Beresford became a successful prize taker on...
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  • cruise, but had taken no prizes. The Navy took her into service as HMS Eugenie. In July 1797 Duke of York shared in the capture of a French privateer in the...
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    HMS Fisgard, while Constance retained her name. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General service Medal with clasp "San Fiorenzo 8 March 1797"...
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    Emilie ( France): The schooner was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Cambrian and HMS Fishgard while on a voyage from Bordeaux to Guadeloupe. She was taken...
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    12-hour chase. Elizabeth had captured Cambrian after Cambrian had left a convoy on 28 October. Melville recaptured Cambrian, which had been carrying a cargo...
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    S2CID 145395508. For example, the frigate HMS Hermione, with a regular complement of 180 men had 129 desertions between 1793 and 1797. Desertion rates for Dutch and...
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  • post captain, taking over the 28-gun frigate HMS Hind. By 1810 he was in command of the frigate HMS Cambrian and was actively supporting the Spanish war...
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    She recaptured the brig Providence on 24 September 1797 and shared with Indefatigable and Cambrian in the capture on 16 January 1798 of the 8-gun French...
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    Stonehaven. This part of Scotland largely comprises ancient rocks, from Cambrian and Precambrian times, that were uplifted to form a mountain chain during...
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    Royal Navy took Etna into service as the 20-gun post ship HMS Cormorant. In February 1797 the government made an advance prize money payment of £8000...
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  • many uniquely shaped multicellular creatures that appeared during the Cambrian explosion. The fossil was first discovered in the Burgess Shale in the...
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    fifth-rate HMS Cambrian on the North America and West Indies Station, then to the fourth-rate HMS Leander and then to the fifth-rate HMS Milan. Promoted...
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  • of 32 guns'. The warships he built there were: In addition to the above HMS Rattler was launched at Northam in 1795. The original contractor, Thomas...
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  • acting lieutenant in the May 1796 and on 5 April 1797 he joined the newly built frigate HMS Cambrian as a lieutenant under Captain, the Honourable Arthur...
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