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    74278; -1.03972 Invincible was originally a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy launched in October 1744. Captured on 14 May 1747, she was taken...
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  • named HMS Invincible. HMS Invincible (1747) was originally the French 74-gun ship of the line L'Invincible, captured off Cape Finisterre in 1747. She was...
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  • recovery, conservation and public display of material from the wreck of HMS Invincible (1747) with partners Bournemouth University, National Museum of the Royal...
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  • 1688 and 1691. Invincible (1691), a galley Invincible (1691), a 70-gun ship of the line Invincible (1747), 74-gun ship of the line Invincible (1780), 110-gun...
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  • off the west coast of Scotland. Wreck of French-built English ship HMS Invincible (1747) found in The Solent. Burial site related to the 1918 execution of...
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    French Invincible, captured in 1747. HMS Kent Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard Ordered: 10 June 1795 Launched: 17 January 1798 Fate: Broken up, 1881 HMS Ajax...
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    renamed HMS Intrepid. She underwent refit between from August until the following March at a cost of over £10,000, and was commissioned in November 1747 under...
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  • season of rescue excavation of wreck of French-built English ship HMS Invincible (1747) in The Solent. October – Site of Reno nightclub (closed 1986) in...
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    George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (category British MPs 1741–1747)
    Squadron, with his flag in the third-rate HMS Yarmouth, in July 1746. "Sir, you have vanquished the Invincible and Glory follows with you." —Admiral de...
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    guardship HMS Invincible, and for the next few years was on half pay in Scotland. In January 1755 he was appointed first lieutenant of the 90-gun HMS Prince...
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    50°44′34″N 01°02′23″W / 50.74278°N 1.03972°W / 50.74278; -1.03972 (HMS Invincible (1747)) Mary Rose  Royal Navy 19 July 1545 A Tudor warship sunk in Portsmouth...
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  • Martinho (G) - Flagship of the "Invincible Armada" in 1588 São Mateus (G) - part of the Portuguese Squadron of the "Invincible Armada" São Cristóvão (G) -...
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    Threedecks. Retrieved 27 August 2019. To Commemorate the Commissioning of HMS Invincible in the Presence of Her Majesty the Queen (PDF). 1980. Winfield 2007...
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    given command of the third-rate HMS Invincible later in 1756, the first-rate HMS Royal George in 1757 and the second-rate HMS Namur in 1758. In Namur he took...
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  • Navy at a young age, and by 1778 he was a lieutenant on first HMS Invincible and then HMS Britannia during the American Revolutionary War. In 1782 he was...
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    Lord George Graham (category 1747 deaths)
    Captain Lord George Graham (26 September 1715 – 2 January 1747) was a Scottish officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the War of the Austrian...
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    Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747 and added to the RN under the same name, BU in 1763 Invincible 74 (launched 21 October 1744 at Rochefort...
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  • Louis Lhéritier (category 1747 births)
    Louis Lhéritier (French pronunciation: [lwi leʁitje]; 17 June 1747 – 15 December 1823) was a French Navy officer. He most notably took part in the Glorious...
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    1755 Intrepid 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Sérieux captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, broken up 1765 Invincible 74 (1747) – ex-French L'Invincible...
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    of the Austrian Succession (for example, Invincible, captured at the first battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747) and the Seven Years' War and was greatly...
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    Ear which had merged with the larger War of the Austrian Succession. By 1747 actions fought between Great Britain and Spain in the America's during the...
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    under the cover of a dense fog, but was intercepted and seized by HMS Scarborough and HMS Junon. This left the French with only five half-empty ships in...
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    Glorious First of June: The 80-gun ship was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Invincible. De Vrouw Margaretha ( Dutch Republic): The ship was captured and sunk...
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    and for boilermaking. No.1 Basin was officially opened in 1871, with HMS Invincible being brought into No.5 Dock for repairs, with great ceremony. Work...
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    of the Mediterranean Fleet, was among the dead. Of the three original Invincible-class battlecruisers which entered service in the first half of 1908,...
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    December, was rejected by the PRC, which was convinced of the PVA's invincibility after its victory in that battle and the wider Second Phase Offensive...
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    HMS Conqueror sank the light cruiser ARA General Belgrano, but lost the destroyers HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry and the frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope...
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  • Freight/Cargo services. IBM North Harbour opens 1982 20 June: The Invincible-class ship HMS Illustrious (R06), which was the 5th warship and 2nd aircraft...
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  • elected posthumously; Edward Legge (1710–1747) was elected unopposed as MP for Portsmouth on 15 December 1747, four days before news arrived that he had...
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    Franco-Spanish combined fleet still besieging Gibraltar, arriving on 11 along with Invincible, Robuste, Protecteur, Actif, Zodiaque, Bien Aimé and Guerrier. Her cutter...
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