captured Centaure at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759, and commissioned her as the third-rate HMS Centaur. She had a skirmish with the French ships Vaillant...

1761. HMS Centaur (1759) was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line, formerly the French ship Centaure. She was captured at the Battle of Lagos in 1759, and...

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...

French Navy launched in 1757 and captured by the Royal Navy in 1759 and renamed HMS Centaur French ship Centaure (1782), a French Navy ship launched in 1782...

Ordered: 17 January 1788 Launched: 25 October 1794 Fate: Broken up, 1823 HMS Centaur Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 17 January 1788 Launched: 14 March...

boy of 11 in 1759. In April 1766, he was rated able seaman aboard the Launceston: in May 1768, he was made lieutenant and moved into HMS Romney under...

three captured French ships went on to serve in the British navy as HMS Centaur, Modeste and Temeraire. Serving on board Océan as a junior officer was...

Corsair. HMS Success, 1740 HMS Adventure, 1741 HMS Anglesea, 1742 HMS Poole, 1745 HMS Raven, 1745 HMS Centaur, 1746 HMS Tavistock, 1747 HMS Scarborough...

HMS Siren 1745 HMS Fox 1746 HMS Rye 1746 Modified 1741 Establishment 20-gun sixth rates 1746. HMS Centaur 1746 HMS Deal Castle 1746 HMS Nightingale 22-gun...

naval engagement during the Seven Years' War. It was fought on 20 November 1759 between the Royal Navy and the French Navy in Quiberon Bay, off the coast...

of the ships anchored at Portsmouth, including HMS Majestic, HMS Formidable, HMS Achille and HMS Centaur. A further seven men involved were sent to prison...

ship Centaur began a duel with Namur but was outgunned and struck her colours. The damage aboard Namur forced Boscawen to shift his flag to HMS Newark...

Paris sank along with several of the convoy and one of the escorts, HMS Centaur. The convoy and her escorts finally arrived at Portsmouth and Canada...

midshipman on HMS Centaur, flagship of Sir Samuel Hood, he was present at the surrender of Madeira. As captain, he commanded HMS Prince Regent, and HMS Winchester...

appointed successor to Captain Robert Hughes in command of the 74-gun HMS Centaur, a guardship at Portsmouth, and held this, his last command, for three...

Knackston on HMS Grampus in May 1754. In 1755 Hunter was enrolled as able seaman on HMS Centaur, became a midshipman and served on HMS Union and then HMS Neptune...

the Anglo-French War. In command of HMS Centaur in 1778, he took part in the Battle of Ushant and in command of HMS Robust in 1779, he took part in the...

transferred to HMS Lyme. In April 1746 he captured the corvette La Saxonne off the Leeward Islands. In April 1747 he transferred to HMS Centaur remaining in...

with his childhood companion Patroclus and received his education by the centaur Chiron. In the Iliad, he is presented as the commander of the mythical...

HMS Alligator was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally ordered during the American War of Independence but...

all the ships. In August 1759 he took the Augusta to England, and on paying her off, in April 1760, commissioned HMS Centaur, one of the ships taken by...

captured by the British in the Battle of Lagos in August 1759 and added to the RN as HMS Centaur, wrecked off Newfoundland in 1782 Minotaure 74 (launched...

losses to convoy. 14 May Attack on AHS Centaur – Japanese submarine I-177 sinks Australian hospital ship AHS Centaur with a heavy loss of life. 15 May Sinking...

up 1772 Modeste 64 (1759, ex-French Modeste, captured 1759); broken up 1800 Centaur 74 (1757, ex-French Centaure, captured 1759); foundered 1782 with...

William and Mary, so the Scottish frigates were renamed HMS Edinburgh and HMS Glasgow, while only HMS Dumbarton Castle retained its name. The Act of Union...

mother's name In a field trial in 1762 Captain Bentinck had his ship, HMS Centaur, equipped with Taylor's blocks of half the usual size. These proved fully...

the 90-gun HMS Namur, flying the broad pennant of Commodore Fielding, the 74-gun ships HMS Courageux (Captain Thomas Allen), HMS Centaur (Captain J....

mythology, was the centaur who supposedly made forecasts from the flight formations of birds. He caused the battle between the centaurs and Heracles and...

hospital ship in time of war but did not undertake this role. HMS Victory was built between 1759 and 1765 at Chatham Dockyard with over 100 guns. She fought...

yacht Irvine Museum exhibit Part of the Scottish Maritime Museum 9 [14] Centaur John & Herbert Cann Harwich 1895 Thames sailing barge Maldon, Essex Operational...