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    HMS Enterprise (historically spelled Enterprize) was a 28-gun sixth-rate Enterprise-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of her class...
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  • and was broken up in 1771. HMS Enterprise (1774) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790...
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  • and was broken up in 1771. HMS Enterprise (1774) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate launched in August 1774, on harbour service from 1790...
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    Brest in 1778 HMS Enterprise 1774 – hulked as receiving ship at the Tower of London 1791, broken up 1807 HMS Surprise 1774 – sold 1783 HMS Actaeon 1775...
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    HMS Surprise (or Surprize) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, which served throughout the American Revolutionary War and...
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    Storehouse (1774) HMS Cumberland (1774) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Enterprise (1774) 28-gun frigate HMS Galatea (1776) 20-gun ship HMS Culloden (1776)...
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    HMS Enterprise and HMS Royal George are now in the National Maritime Museum The two of Alert were given separately to the Science Museum in 1904. HMS...
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  • 1773 Enterprise-class frigate (1771) twenty-seven 28-gun frigates launched from 1773 HMS Vengeance (1771) 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1774 Experiment-class...
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    expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline of Australia aboard HMS Beagle. In 1845 he served under Sir John Franklin as First Lieutenant (the...
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    who believed in an ice-free Open Polar Sea. Two bomb vessels, HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass, were modified for greater protection against ice and sailed...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    post ship HMS Squirrel, in which he sailed for Jamaica in 1774 while still a midshipman. In early 1777 he was made an acting lieutenant in HMS Nonsuch before...
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    HMS Fox was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Fox was first commissioned in October 1775 under the command of Captain Patrick...
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    HMS Cyclops was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The Cyclops was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain...
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    Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (category British MPs 1768–1774)
    later patron of the natural sciences. In January 1759, he joined the 70-gun HMS Monmouth as a cadet under his uncle Captain Augustus Hervey during Hervey's...
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    HMS Proserpine was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1777 was wrecked in February 1799. Proserpine was...
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    Britain. For this operation, the Admiralty placed the frigates HMS Argo and HMS Enterprise under his command. Nelson successfully organised the convoy and...
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  • had about 190 men on board. HMS Jupiter came up after and took Jean Bart into Plymouth. French privateer Jean Bart: HMS Ferret captured the privateers...
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    Commander Phillip Parker King, in HMS Adventure. In the desolate waters of Tierra del Fuego Stokes, the captain of HMS Beagle, became depressed and shot...
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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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    impose such restrictions. The public sector, including publicly owned enterprises and the municipalities, plays a dominant role in Greenland's economy...
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    HMS Crescent was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Crescent was launched in 1779. The French captured her in 1781. She was...
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    1770 Boston Massacre 1772 Burning of the customs schooner HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay 1773–1774 Lord Dunmore's War 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War...
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  • Port Egmont with neither side relinquishing sovereignty claims. However, in 1774, economic pressures leading up to the American Revolutionary War forced Great...
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  • JPL · 8220 8221 La Condamine 1996 NA4 Charles-Marie de La Condamine (1701–1774), a French naturalist and mathematician. JPL · 8221 8222 Gellner 1996 OX...
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    Tahiti on 14 May 1774.: 263–279, 284, 290, 301–312  Pautu and Tetuanui returned to Tahiti with Bonechea aboard Aguila on 14 November 1774; Tipitipia and...
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    2018. HMS Conqueror HMS Courageous (preserved in North Yard as a museum ship) HMS Sceptre HMS Spartan HMS Splendid HMS Sovereign HMS Superb HMS Tireless...
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    the China Sea, and made several important contributions in cartography. In 1774 he commanded the frigate La Rosalia on a scientific expedition, which led...
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    quarterdeck). Alcmène, (launched 14 June 1774 at Toulon) – captured by British Navy 21 October 1779, becoming HMS Alcmene. Aimable, (launched 20 July 1776...
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    tug-of-war competition in 1845 between the screw-driven HMS Rattler and the paddle steamer HMS Alecto; the former pulling the latter backward at 2.5 knots...
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