HMS Dominica was the French privateer schooner J(T?)opo L'Oeil (aka Tape à l'Oeil or Tape à l'Oeuil or Tap à l'Oeil) that the British captured in 1807...
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broken up in 1808. HMS Dominica (1807) was the privateer schooner Tape a L’Oeil, which HMS Superieure captured in 1807. Dominica was lost in a hurricane...
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HMS Redbridge was the French schooner Aristotle, built in America. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Redbridge in 1807 and renamed her HMS Variable...
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HMS Dominica was a schooner that the British purchased in 1805 in the Leeward Islands. Her crew mutinied in 1806, turning her over to the French, who immediately...
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named Terpsichore HMS Modeste, but never commissioned her. On 22 May 1814 Majestic recaptured the former British naval schooner Dominica, which the American...
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HMS Primrose was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Thomas Nickells (or Nicholls), at Fowey and launched in 1807. Primrose was built at Fowey...
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recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Raven. On 9 April 1802, the 8th West India Regiment revolted in Dominica. They killed three officers, imprisoned...
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1781 he was placed on board HMS Hercules with Captain Henry Savage, and was present at the Battle of the Saintes off Dominica, on 12 April 1782, where he...
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Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet (category Governors of Dominica)
six ships of the line off Cadiz, in the flagship HMS Glory. Orde served as the Governor of Dominica between 1783 and 1793 and was created 1st Baronet...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
Privateer Decatur captures HMS Dominica 1813, August 14 – HMS Pelican captures USS Argus 1813, September 5 – USS Enterprise captures HMS Boxer 1813, September...
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privateer Comet. Comet captured Dominica Packet in sight of St Thomas. HMS Variable recaptured Dominica Packet on 13 March. Dominica Packet, Hex, master, arrived...
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HMS Galatea was a fifth-rate 32-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy that George Parsons built at Bursledon and launched in 1794. Before she...
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French schooner Impériale (1805) (category Maritime incidents in 1807)
May 1806 and named her HMS Vigilant. The Navy renamed her HMS Subtle on 20 November 1806. She wrecked at Bermuda on 20 October 1807. On 23 May 1806, Impériale...
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HMS Magnet was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built at Robert Guillaume’s yard at Northam and launched in 1807. She served in the Baltic, where she took two...
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Great Hurricane of 1780 (category Hurricanes in Dominica)
Martinique. The cyclone gradually weakened as it passed to the southwest of Dominica early on October 12 and subsequently struck the island of Guadeloupe. After...
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HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary...
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HMS Maria was a gun-brig the Royal Navy purchased in 1807 and commissioned at Antigua in 1808. On 29 September 1808 the French Navy corvette French corvette Department...
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HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only...
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Independence, the Peninsular War and later served as Lieutenant Governor of Dominica. The youngest son of Sir Alexander Maitland and Penelope, daughter of Colonel...
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from 1785 to 1807" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 140. Campbell, Susan (2007). Africans to Dominica: 100,000 middle...
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Liverpool on 15 September 1805, bound for Africa. Elizabeth arrived at Dominica on 10 March 1806. It is unknown how many captives Elizabeth had embarked...
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HMS Tobago was a schooner of unknown origin that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1805. In 1806 a French privateer captured her. The Royal Navy recaptured...
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USS Constitution (section HMS Cyane and HMS Levant)
out of Norfolk on 15 May 1807 to replace Constitution as the flagship of the Mediterranean squadron, but he encountered HMS Leopard, resulting in the...
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Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon (category Governors of Dominica)
career, being promoted Commander on 7 March 1821. He served as Governor of Dominica between 1822 and 1824, and was made Post Captain on 29 May 1824. On 14...
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notable engagements. The first occurred in May 1805. Mutineers had turned HMS Dominica over to the French at Guadeloupe and the French commissioned her as the...
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February 1800 Storm encountered in the Ceres, Capt. Crow, on the passage from Dominica to Liverpool, 1804 Action, in the night, between the Mary, of Liverpool...
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Mentor (1784 ship) (redirect from HMS Wasp (1749))
Mentor was the former HMS Wasp. The British Royal Navy sold Wasp in 1781 and she became the mercantile Polly, which traded with Africa. In 1784 Polly...
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1801 that a schooner, bound for St Domingo from Bordeaux, had come into Dominica. The schooner was a prize to Brooks and William Heathcote, of Liverpool...
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confederacy, which resisted U.S. colonial settlement in the Old Northwest. In 1807, these tensions escalated after the Royal Navy began enforcing tighter restrictions...
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Guadeloupe, that HMS Zephyr captured off Dominica on 18 June 1797. Vengeur was a new privateer schooner of 12 guns and 72 men that HMS Indefatigable, Cambrian...
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