• been named HMS Defiance. Others have borne the name whilst serving as depot ships and tenders to the establishments: English ship Defiance (1588) was...
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    HMS Defiance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Randall and Co., at Rotherhithe on the River Thames, and launched on...
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    Commander James Spratt was famous for having dived into the sea from HMS Defiance, swimming cutlass in teeth to the French 74-gun Aigle, boarding her single...
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  • from 1898, was renamed HMS Impregnable II in 1906, merged with HMS Defiance in 1920, renamed HMS Defiance IV in 1922, HMS Defiance II in 1930 and was finally...
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    HMS Defiance was the last wooden line-of-battle ship launched for the Royal Navy. She never saw service as a wooden line-of-battle ship. In 1884 she became...
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    HMS Defiance was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions laid out in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment...
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    HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 August 1772 at Woolwich. Defiance was wrecked in 1780. Lavery...
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  • Look up defiance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote has quotations related to Defiance. Defiance may refer to: Defiance (1952 film), a Swedish...
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  • HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, ordered on 26 October 1664 under the new construction programme of that...
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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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  • ship, being renamed HMS Powerful II in 1913, HMS Impregnable II in 1919 and HMS Defiance in 1931. She was broken up in 1956. HMS Andromeda (1917) was...
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  • used for harbour service from 1886, was renamed HMS Defiance II in 1904 and was probably sold in 1912. HMS Perseus (1897) was a Pelorus-class protected cruiser...
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    great ship in 1615 by Phineas Pett I at Woolwich. Defiance was sold out of the navy in 1650. The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th...
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    Retrieved 22 April 2009. "HMS Forth". Naval History. Flixco. Retrieved 22 April 2009. "Royal Naval Torpedo School, HMS Defiance". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth...
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    1744. In November 1745 she encountered her fellow Royal Navy vessel HMS Defiance. The crew of both vessels mistook the other for a French man-o-war and...
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    Le Havre on 19 March 1745. She was captured in the English Channel by HMS Defiance on 21 April 1746. Ambuscade fought at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre...
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    Inverkip, Inverclyde, HMS Dartmouth II, Coastal Forces MTBs, MGBs & MLs, Dartmouth HMS Defiance, Torpedo school, Devonport, Devon HMS Defiance, Fleet Maintenance...
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    "surprising effectiveness" of formulating sedition within the Royal Navy". HMS Defiance, which had been part of the "floating republic" at Spithead, did see...
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  • the barque Jorawur. HMS Vulcan (1889) was a depot ship launched in 1889. She was converted to a training hulk and renamed HMS Defiance III in 1931 and was...
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    to a submarine tender in 1908-09. As a training hulk, she was renamed HMS Defiance III in 1931 and used for training at Torpoint, Cornwall. She was scrapped...
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    was wrecked later on 23 October. Aigle escaped from the British ship HMS Defiance, but was wrecked off the Port of Santa María on 23 October; while the...
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  • happen and she was sold in 1921. HMS Forth (A187) was a submarine depot ship launched in 1938. She was renamed HMS Defiance between 1972 and 1978 and was...
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  • invasion by William of Orange. Ashby was eventually convinced to command HMS Defiance for William of Orange, as he was persuaded of the need to fight the 'popish...
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    one. In June 1902, she was refitted at Chatham to serve as a tender to HMS Defiance, torpedo school ship at Devonport, and later as a depot ship. She took...
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    batteries, Stopford ordered his squadron to attack at 09:00 on 24 February, HMS Defiance leading the line. Shortly after the main batteries of Stopford's ships...
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    she was renamed HMS Melpomene in December 1925. She was assigned to HMS Defiance the Torpedo School at Devonport. In September, 1939 she was converted...
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    Macau Grand Prix winner Philip Charles Durham, sailor and captain of HMS Defiance at Trafalgar Marjorie Fleming, child writer and poet Sir Sandford Fleming...
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    from HMS Adamant (1780), HMS Atlas (1782), HMS Caesar (1793), HMS Defiance (1783), HMS Glory (1788), HMS Haughty (1797), HMS Neptune (1797), HMS Queen...
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    Dockyard in January 1900. In April 1902 she was employed as tender to HMS Defiance, torpedo school at Devonport. In 1885 the ship undertook a simulated...
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    to command the fourth-rate HMS Defiance later that month, the third-rate HMS Hampton Court in May 1757 and the third-rate HMS Monmouth in March 1758. Hervey...
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