HMS Canterbury was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 18 December 1693. She was rebuilt at Portsmouth according...

foundered in 1703. She was raised and then sold. HMS Canterbury (1693) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1693. She was rebuilt in 1722 and 1744, when she...

1693 (MDCXCIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1693rd...

Hilarion de Tourville near Lagos, Portugal, in June 1693. He was promoted to full admiral in July 1693. Rooke joined the Board of Admiralty led by Admiral...

1693 under Captain Henry Haughton. He spent most of this period serving in the English Channel until 1696, when he joined the main fleet aboard HMS Restoration...

Antoine (1693), and the Jacobite privateer Prince of Wales (1693). In April 1695 he was created commander of the newly completed 4-gun HMS Comet, serving...

on 7 May 1689. He was captain of HMS Happy Return from 1689 to 1690, of HMS Monck in 1691 and on HMS Duchess from 1693 to 1694. In 1696 he was first captain...

admirals in April 1693, and on 25 June was promoted to post-captain. Leake's promotion came with the appointment to take command of HMS James Galley. He...

Promoted to captain in 1693, Hardy served in the Channel Islands and off the coast of England until 1702 when he was given command of HMS Pembroke off the coast...

Russell's flagship, the 100-gun HMS Britannia, at the battle of Barfleur in 1692 during the War of the Grand Alliance. In 1693 he became the Deputy Judge Advocate...

Admiral Edward Russell in the first-rate HMS Britannia in December 1693. Byng was given command of the third-rate HMS Nassau in June 1702 and saw action at...

1645–1649 John Thompson 1654–1685 Nathaniel Brokesby 1685–1692 John Hickes 1693–1722 James Parkinson 1722–1726 John Hausted 1726–1746 Edward Mainwaring 1746–1759...

of the newly built HMS Devonshire in 1745. He returned to Britain later that year, and in January 1746 he was aboard HMS Canterbury as commander of a squadron...

followed before he took command of HMS York from 13 July 1693 to 13 June 1695. Whetstone's next command was to HMS Dreadnought on 6 July 1696. He sailed...

Promoted to rear admiral on 8 February 1693 and to vice admiral in June 1693, Aylmer hoisted his flag in the first-rate HMS Royal Sovereign and served under...

theologian (born 1684) 3 August – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1693) 1 October – Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687) 17 November...

rates of 60 guns Medway 60 (1693) Carlisle 60 (1693) – wrecked 1696 Winchester 60 (1693) – sank 1695 Canterbury 60 (1693) Sunderland 60 (1694) – scuttled...

(1561–1612), poet and inventor of the first water closet John Harrison (1693–1776), clockmaker Rowland Hill (1795–1879), inventor of the modern postal...

King William III of England following the 2-month Siege of Namur. HMS Winchester (1693) founders in the Florida Keys with the loss of 400. 7 September –...

school and was re-established as a grammar school between 1548 and 1553. The 1693 financial endowment of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove...

– All but eight of the remaining 305 crew of the Royal Navy ship HMS Winchester (1693) are killed when the ship founders in the Florida Keys. According...

was the whaler Fanny that visited Raoul Island in 1823. On 1 August 1886, HMS Diamond annexed the islands for the United Kingdom. European settlers have...

English theologian (b. 1684) August 3 – Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693) August 17 – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1703) September...

Franco-Spanish fleet. At the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, the band aboard HMS Tonnant played Britons, Strike Home! as she sailed into action, only ceasing...

medieval reputation for wisdom. The Alfred jewel, discovered in Somerset in 1693, has long been associated with King Alfred because of its Old English inscription...

English politician (b. c. 1705) March 18 Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1693) Thomas Zebrowski, Lithuanian Jesuit scientist (b. 1714) March 22...

mythology of Vanuatu MPC · 3271 3272 Tillandz 1938 DB1 Elias Tillandz (1640–1693), Swedish physician and botanist MPC · 3272 3273 Drukar 1975 TS2 Ivan Fyodorov...

(26 July 1693) to her husband holding her "Oh, that this were for Ireland." — Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, Irish soldier (21 August 1693), mortally...

to have come from Londinium. Bede records that in AD 604 Augustine of Canterbury consecrated Mellitus as the first bishop to the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of...

Lamplugh 1676: William Lloyd 1680: Thomas Tenison 1692: William Lancaster 1693: Nicholas Gouge 1694–1716: William Lancaster 1716–1723: Thomas Green 1723–1756:...