HMS Irresistible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 December 1782 at Harwich. Irresistible captured the French...

named HMS Irresistible. A fifth was planned but later renamed: HMS Irresistible (1782) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken...

March 1780 Fate: Broken up, 1820 HMS Irresistible Builder: Barnard, Harwich Ordered: 8 July 1778 Launched: 6 December 1782 Fate: Broken up, 1806 Lavery,...

HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...

Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons...

ship HMS Captain (74), commanded by Commodore Nelson, and HMS Culloden (74). She was then attacked by the Blenheim (90), Orion (74), Irresistible (74)...

another HMS Swiftsure had already entered service, and had been present at Trafalgar. The captured Swiftsure was renamed HMS Irresistible, and was laid...

- HMS Antelope 6 Jun 1791 - HMS Sultan 23 Jan 1792 - HMS Antelope 6 Feb 1792 - HMS Ocean 23 May 1798 - HMS Bedford 30 Aug 1798 - HMS Irresistible 14...

14 February 1797. During the battle Irresistible sustained casualties of five killed and 14 wounded. The 74-gun HMS Captain had been present at the battle...

the 14-gun cutter Liberty in the North Sea between April 1780 and October 1782. He was master and commander of the 14-gun Cygnet, a ship-sloop of the Swan-class...

Admiralty. British HMS Surprise (a frigate) HMS Irresistible (Admiral's Flag; possibly the third rate ship of the line of 74 guns, launched in 1782 and broken...

the Cleopatra at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1781. From 1782 he commanded HMS Irresistible. He was elected Member of Parliament for Perth burghs in 1790...

HMS Irresistible in the Medway. Here the vessel served as a guardship, with Bowyer being made a commodore for the purpose. Bowyer left Irresistible and...

Rotherhithe in 1782 "General Coote" for the East India Company probably launched at Barnard's Wharf in Rotherhithe in 1782 HMS Irresistible a 74-gun ship...

end of 1782, and at the start of 1783 briefly served as first lieutenant of the frigate Monsieur before joining the newly built HMS Irresistible in which...

74 (1780) – broken up 1820 Irresistible 74 (1782) – broken up 1806 Ramillies class (Slade) Ramillies 74 (1763) – fire 1782 Monarch 74 (1765) – broken...

Lestock. He was moved to HMS Sandwich in March 1745, and shortly thereafter to HMS Ruby. On 11 April 1746 Ruby, with HMS Defiance and HMS Salisbury, was dispatched...

Battle of the Saintes in April 1782 and added to the RN as HMS Tiger, sold 1784 Hannibal 50 (ex-British Hannibal, captured 1782) – Deleted 1787 The Republic...

for clasp to the Naval General Service Medal. Throughout 1782, Christopher Mason commanding, HMS Quebec operated in North American waters in the final year...

following the war. Washington believed in a "wise, inscrutable, and irresistible" Creator God who was active in the Universe, contrary to deistic thought...

HMS Emerald was a 36-gun Amazon-class fifth rate frigate that Sir William Rule (Surveyor of the Navy) designed in 1794 for the Royal Navy. The Admiralty...

warships at Harwich Dockyard, this time as a private contractor; one of these, HMS Harwich, was considered by Pepys to be one of the finest vessels in the Navy...

operation. The manner of the Japanese advance resembled the insidious yet irresistible clutching of multiple tentacles. Like some vast octopus it relied on...

ships in the Royal Navy, including as surgeon's mate on HMS Wasp and surgeon on HMS Irresistible before being recommended for the expedition to Botany Bay...

cousin's ship, HMS Proserpine and when his cousin, George Byron, was given command of the newly built, HMS Andromache in January 1782, the young Richard...

implemented "without waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." His recommendations were not acted upon...