HMS Roebuck was a 44-gun, fifth-rate sailing warship of the Royal Navy which carried a main battery of twenty 18-pounder (8.2 kg) long guns. Launched...
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have been named HMS Roebuck after a small deer native to the British Isles: HMS Roebuck (1585) was a flyboat purchased in 1585. HMS Roebuck (1636) was a...
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1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMS Triton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise 1746 HMS...
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July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia), in HMS Roebuck, reaches Dirk Hartog Island, at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay...
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Diamond, Mary Galley, Ludlow Castle, Pearl, Kinsale, Lark, Adventure, Roebuck, Torrington, Princess Louisa and Southsea Castle. The 1733 revision made...
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July 26 – William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia), in HMS Roebuck, reaches Dirk Hartog Island, at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay...
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William Paley (1743–1805), theologian (& son of the Headmaster of 1744–1799) Major Gustav Renwick (1883–1956), industrialist; MP Nigel Roebuck (b. 1946),...
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process, for producing sulfuric acid in large quantities, invented by John Roebuck (1718–1794). c. 1760-c. 1840: Pioneers of the Industrial Revolution – Isambard...
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and another one in 1694. Dolphin Speedwell Spy Hopewell Fox Griffin Hawk Roebuck Hound Vulture Wolf Hunter Vulcan Blaze Flame Strombolo Aetna Phaeton Lightning...
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List". Lloyd's List (2246). 16 November 1790. "(untitled)". The Times. No. 1743. London. 3 December 1790. col B, p. 3. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2295)...
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