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    HMS Duke was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 June 1682 at Woolwich Dockyard. She underwent a rebuild in 1701 as...
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  • have been called HMS Duke: HMS Duke (1652) was a 12-gun ship in service in 1652. HMS Duke (1682) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682. She was rebuilt...
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  • have been named HMS Prince George: HMS Prince George (1701) was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line. She was launched in 1682 as HMS Duke but was rebuilt...
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  • HMS Gloucester, after Gloucester, the city in England. HMS Gloucester (1654) (also Glocester) was a 54-gun ship launched in 1654 and wrecked in 1682 off...
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    warship was conveying James Stuart, Duke of York (the future King James II of England) to Scotland, when on 6 May 1682 she struck a sandbank off the Norfolk...
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    the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland, KG, PC, FRS (17 December 1619 (O.S.) [27 December 1619 (N.S.)] – 29 November 1682 (O.S.) [9 December 1682 (N.S)]) was...
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  • wreck of HMS Gloucester) Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (born c. 1658) Sir John Hope of Hopetoun 24 August (in England) – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale...
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    evacuate the garrison and destroy the harbour and defensive works. In April 1682, HMS Gloucester was due to be deployed, along with five other ships, to Tangier...
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    strained and a solid segment turned against him. On 6 May 1682, James narrowly escaped the sinking of HMS Gloucester, in which between 130 and 250 people perished...
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    1768, at the fairly late age of 22, the Duke entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman and was sent to Corsica in HMS Venus. However, he returned in September...
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    led by HMS Gloucester which was commissioned to convey James Stuart, Duke of York (the future King James II of England) to Scotland. On 6 May 1682, Gloucester...
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  • authorities for over two years, is captured and hanged on HMS Ruby in Port Royal. December – The Duke of Albemarle arrives in Port Royal as Governor of Jamaica...
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    corvette HMS Encounter and, having been promoted to midshipman, then transferred to the paddle frigate HMS Terrible in 1853. He served in HMS Terrible...
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  • from Portsmouth to Scotland, HMS Gloucester (1654) runs aground on a sandbank off the Norfolk coast and sinks. The Duke of York (the future King James...
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    Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (1682–1726), Dutch-born British politician and colonial statesman William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709–1762)...
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    being appointed Lieutenant aboard HMS Tyger on 30 January 1682. Returning to the army, he was appointed Ensign in the Duke of York's Regiment on 2 May 1684...
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    the Navy on 2 February 1682, an appointment he retained until 17 April 1686. He also became commander of HMS Duke on 3 June 1682, but this last sea command...
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    (1939) HMS Renown (1916): used in 1920 for the Prince of Wales Empire tour and in 1927 by the Duke and Duchess of York to visit Australia HMS Vanguard...
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  • Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (category 1682 deaths)
    of Parliament for Berwick and Dysart Burghs. Roxburghe died on 6 May 1682 when HMS Gloucester ran aground on a sandbank off the Norfolk coast. He was succeeded...
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    Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, the future Peter the Great. Peter ruled from 1682 until his death in 1725. In numerous successful wars he expanded the tsardom...
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  • Edward Grey 1676–1678: Brig. Gen. the Lord Howard of Escrick 1678–1682: Sir Samuel Clarke 1682–1686: John Strode 1686–1688: William Eyton 1688–1689: Thomas...
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    War. The house was purchased by Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan in 1682. The Jacobean house was used by the Boyle family as a summer retreat from...
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    (1661-1689), who served under Legge as Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance from 1682 to 1687. Educated at Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge, Legge...
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  • Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria) (1619–1682), noted German and British soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman...
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    1666–1667: Sir James Turner 1667–1677: The Earl of Kellie 1677–1682: The Lord Ross 1682–1687: John Winram 1687–1688: James Murray 1688–1689: The Viscount...
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    Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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    son of Thomas Fraser of Beaufort (1631–1699) and Lady Sybilla MacLeod (d. 1682), daughter of John Mór MacLeod, 16th Chief of Clan MacLeod. The Beaufort...
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    Mary. The first HMS Norfolk was named after him. His private surgeon was Thomas Greenhill. A written account of the death of the 7th Duke of Norfolk, who...
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    to King Charles II. The paintings were commissioned from Lely by James, Duke of York, brother of King Charles II, in late 1665. James had commanded the...
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  • Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Toulon with loss of the fire ship HMS Anne Galley and all her crew. 27 February – a planned French invasion of...
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