recommissioned Vestale in July as HMS Flora, under the command of Captain Gamaliel Nightingale, for the channel and The Downs. July 1761 commissioned. She was paid...

name HMS Flora: HMS Flora was a sloop ordered in 1755 but later cancelled. HMS Flora was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship Vestale. HMS Unicorn...

March 1761, while still commanding the Vengeance, he captured the 44-gun French privateer Entreprenant by Land's End. He later took command of HMS Flora. He...

1747. HMS Gibraltar 1754 – broken up 1773 HMS Biddeford 1756 – wrecked 1761 HMS Flamborough 1756 – sold 1772 HMS Aldborough 1756 – broken up 1772 HMS Kennington...

also had a crew of 220 men. The Royal Navy took Vestale into service as HMS Flora. The next day a French frigate approached Unicorn, but then sailed away...

fortifications. He was promoted to Captain on 24 September 1761 and given command of the 28-gun HMS Lizard and her crew of 200 men in place of Captain James...

Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and...

He was promoted to commander on 6 August 1761, and then to post-captain on 12 July 1762 with the frigate HMS Boulogne as his first command. With the conclusion...

frigate HMS Bridgewater, a prison ship stationed in the Firth of Forth, as a volunteer. Bridgewater transported the Jacobite rising rebel Flora MacDonald...

HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of...

privateer Marianne 1761, 1 January – HMS Trent captures the French merchant frigate Bien Aimé. 1776, July 27 – USS Reprisal and HMS Shark have an inconclusive...

HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built...

(launched March 1756 at Le Havre) – captured by British Navy 8 January 1761, becoming HMS Flora, scuttled at Rhode Island to prevent capture by the Americans in...

damage and many specimens transferred to HMS Porpoise were lost when it sank. The observations of Brown on the flora of this continent were the most extensive...

commonly known as "Dunbar sands" before 1900, the name "Doom Bar" was used in 1761 (as "the Doom-bar"), and it was also used in poetry, and in House of Commons...

("Святой Михаил", 1758, A) – BU 1771 Sviatoi Sergii 32 ("Святой Сергий", 1761, A) – BU 1771 Gremiaschii 32 ("Гремящий", 1763, A) – Converted to harbour...

winter of 1761. Their first stop was Alexandria, Egypt. Forsskål made many findings at Suez and was one of the first to describe the flora and fauna of...

HMS Netley. Ferret ( France): The privateer was captured on 25 December by the Royal Navy's HMS Viper. She was taken in to Falmouth, Cornwall. Flora ( Batavian...

expedition that investigated the flora and fauna of the colony. Messía traveled to Bogotá at the end of February 1761, where he was received with due ceremony...

on Plymouth Dock. Thornbrough joined his father at sea in 1761, as captain's servant on HMS Arrogant, and spent two years in the Mediterranean becoming...

of shipwrecks in 1761 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1761. "(untitled)". Lloyd's List (2663). 21 July 1761. "(untitled)". Lloyd's...

Nagle. Jacob Nagle (1761–1841) was an ordinary seaman on board HMS Sirius. He was an American who was born in Pennsylvania in 1761 and who died in Ohio...

Africa Robert Adams (c. 1790–?) Marcus Berg (1714-1761) Francis Bok (b. 1979) Isaac Brassard (1620–1702) Felice Caronni (1747–1815) James Leander Cathcart...

Giovanni Regina (Queen) San Bonaventura (St. Bonaventure) San Pietro 14 - Ex HMS Speedy, an earlier brig gifted to the Pope by Napoleon and broken up in 1807...

seventh ship in her class to be finished. She was ordered, with HMS Emerald, on 24 March 1761, and her keel was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on 6 May. When...

decades. Major rebellions occurred in 1656, 1661, 1673, 1682, 1730 and 1761. In 1761 a conspiracy was discovered that involved the majority of the blacks...

of piracy although he is later reprieved. January 27 The crew of the ship HMS Welfare, commanded by John Strong, become the first European people to land...

built several garden structures, including the lofty Great Pagoda built in 1761 which still remains. George III enriched the gardens, aided by William Aiton...

Fernández de Quirós in 1606. This western limit of Spain's claim is shown on the 1761 map of the Spanish Empire by Vicente de Memije, Aspecto Symbolico del Mundo...

a lack of toilet breaks. 15 August – A shipwreck, believed to be that of HMS Hawke, which was sunk by a torpedo during World War I, has been found off...