• Britannia was launched in 1774 at Bombay. She was the focus of a protest against the Tea Act in Charleston, South Carolina in 1774. In 1796 she transported...
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  • demonstrate the qualities of teak in ship construction. Britannia (1774 ship), a 500-ton (bm) merchantman built in 1774 that made five voyages for the British...
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  • Britannia was built in France in 1774. The British captured her in 1781 and she began sailing under the name Sally, first as a transport and then as a...
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    64 (1774, ex-French Solitaire, captured 1782) Sold 1790 Caledonia class (Rule) Caledonia 120 (1808) – renamed Dreadnought, broken up 1875 Britannia 120...
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  • Royal Charlotte was launched by Bombay Dockyard in 1774 as a country ship (British ships sailing between India and China). She made one voyage for the...
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    petition departed Philadelphia on board the ship Britannia, captained by W. Morwick. However, a storm forced the ship to return to port, delaying the delivery...
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  • purchased her and she became Britannia in 1787. She then sailed to the Baltic and Russia. She was wrecked in 1793. Sally (1783 ship) was launched in France...
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  • of ship launches in 1774 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1774. "French Mercant east indiaman 'Le Maréchal de Broglie' (1774)"....
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    trading between Cork and Liverpool. She was last listed in 1799. Britannia (1788 ship), was a vessel launched in 1788 at New Brunswick. She made one complete...
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  • The use of convict ships to New South Wales began on 18 August 1786, when the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and...
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    returned to England in 1774, and then went back to the West Indies in command of HMS Boreas in early 1776 (capturing the 20-gun French ship Le Compas). He accompanied...
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    HMS Vanguard (1748) (category United Kingdom ship of the line stubs)
    Vanguard was sold out of the navy in 1774. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p173. Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development...
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    Denmark across the English Channel, and in the post ship HMS Squirrel, in which he sailed for Jamaica in 1774 while still a midshipman. In early 1777 he was...
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  • HMS Diana (1775) (category 1774 ships)
    120-ton schooner was afloat for little more than a year. She was built in 1774 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and served as an unarmed private fishing...
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  • The Downs on 27 June. Captain Thomas Lyell sailed from Torbay on 27 Apr 1774, bound for Bombay and China. Stafford reached Johanna on 1 September, and...
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    launched in 1785 and wrecked in 1811. HMS St George was originally HMS Britannia of 1762, renamed HMS Princess Royal in 1812, HMS St George a few days...
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    Yacht Britannia, as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived for a state visit. The royal couple were piped aboard and privately toured the ship for...
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    British transports sunk in Newport Harbour between 3–5 August were Betty, Britannia, Earl of Oxford, Good Intent, Grand Duke of Russia, Lord Sandwich, Malaga...
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  • A royal yacht is a ship used by a monarch or a royal family. If the monarch is an emperor the proper term is imperial yacht. Most of them are financed...
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    Swedish royal barge. The original royal barge of this name was built in 1774 on the orders of King Gustav III, to a design by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman...
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  • unable to prevail upon any Māori to accompany them. 6 November – The Britannia, under the command of Captain William Raven, arrives at Dusky Sound from...
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  • shipwrecks in 1774 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1774. "(untitled)". New Lloyd's List (504). 25 January 1774. "(untitled)"...
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    complete break from tradition Britannia was dropped from the reverse for the first time since 1672, and replaced by a sailing ship, said to represent Sir Francis...
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    shipyard and between them built a further thirty ships over the next sixteen years. The Britannia, a ship of 749 tons launched in 1778, so impressed the...
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  • Hispania Lusitania Illyricum Aquitania Gallia Galatia Raetia Moesia Judea Britannia St. Andrews Island Curonian colonization of the Americas Sultanate of...
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    Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with A and B. For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see...
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  • Scarborough was a double-decked, three-masted, ship-rigged, copper-sheathed, barque that participated in the First Fleet, assigned to transport convicts...
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    1914 2485 The Boat With My True Love's Name Clark & Archibald 2486 Rule Britannia Albert Farrington 2487 It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary Jack Judge Albert...
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    cheaper access and some new settlement. Wellington Pier opened in 1854 and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth boomed as a resort, with...
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    British Capital Ships. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-027-6. Knight, R.J.B. (2005). Portsmouth Dockyard Papers, 1774–1783: the...
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