• (donated) her to the Royal Navy, which renamed her HMS Ganges. The Royal Navy commissioned Ganges in February 1782 under the command of Captain Charles Fielding...
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  • named HMS Ganges after the river Ganges in India. HMS Ganges (1782) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816. HMS Ganges (1821)...
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    The Ganges-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt in 1779. HMS Ganges Builder:...
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    Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2. Media related to HMS Phaeton (1782) at Wikimedia Commons General Information - The Perry Expedition The...
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  • launched in 1785 HMS Culloden (1782) 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1783 HMS Melampus (1782) 36-gun frigate launched in 1785 HMS Squirrel (1783) 20-gun...
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    off in October 1782. In January 1783 Cornwallis was given command of HMS Ganges and in March of the same year was moved to HM Yacht Charlotte. The American...
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    HMS Bombay Castle was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 June 1782 at Blackwall Yard. She grounded on 21 December 1796...
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    HMS Tremendous was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Edward Hunt, built to the lines of HMS Ganges by William Barnard's...
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  • Indies in his new command HMS Pelican. He remained in American waters until July 1802, serving aboard HMS Abergavenny then HMS Ganges, in which he returned...
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  • whom Henry served on HMS Portland, HMS Mediator and HMS Ganges. In 1786, Waterhouse joined HMS Sirius as a midshipman after Cumberland House recommended...
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  • HMS Spider was formerly the French privateer Victoire, built at Dunkirk in 1782, that the Royal Navy captured that same year. The Navy commissioned her...
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    being wounded in action during the Battle of Cape Spartel, commanding HMS Ganges. Fielding was the son of Charles Feilding, Colonel in the Guards and Equerry...
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    lieutenant on 13 March 1782 while on duty in Jamaica and promoted to commander on 13 November 1790, in command of the sloop HMS Spitfire. He was then in...
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    Edwards was replaced by Vice-Admiral John Campbell in 1782, and both Luttrell and Seymour moved aboard HMS Mediator. The Mediator then returned to Britain to...
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  • typical barbershop songs The Polecats, a fictional gang in the 1995 video game Full Throttle HMS Polecat (1782), a Royal Navy brig-sloop Lockheed Martin Polecat...
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    HMS Spitfire was a Tisiphone-class fireship of the Royal Navy. She served during the years of peace following the end of the American War of Independence...
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    of the Mediator, Luttrell was moved to command the 74-gun HMS Ganges in April 1783, Ganges then serving as the guard ship at Portsmouth. He continued...
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  • command during the peace was the 74-gun HMS Ganges, which he recommissioned in December 1792. Molloy and Ganges were part of the fleet under Lord Howe...
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    Impressment (redirect from Press-Gang)
    England in 1787, a press gang breaks into a local tavern and presses all of the men drinking there into naval service. H.M.S. Defiant (Lewis Gilbert,...
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    vice-admiral of the red in September 1787, and raised his pennant on HMS Ganges. Drake's family life is confused in later records with those of his younger...
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    although Curtis remained in employment during the peace, commanding HMS Ganges as guardship at Portsmouth. In 1787 he was placed on half-pay, although...
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  • registered as the sloop HMS Orestes on 16 February 1782. Orestes was fitted out at Deptford between February and August 1782, with her armament consisting...
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  • was to the 74-gun HMS Ganges, still serving under Captain Cornwallis. He remained aboard Ganges for the next five years, with Ganges initially employed...
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    South Carolina on it in a jute mill between Calcutta and the coast on the Ganges River in India suggests that she may have reached the Indian Ocean. British...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Culloden (1783)
    HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 June 1783 at Rotherhithe. She took part in some of the most famous...
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    Dutch ship Vrijheid (category 1782 ships)
    ship was given by the Admiralty of Amsterdam. The ship was commissioned in 1782. In 1783, a squadron consisting of the ships Vrijheid, Noordholland, Hercules...
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    Wentworth granted a warrant to Commander Rupert George of HMS Hussar. George sent press gangs from Hussar into Halifax. In one night they detained 50 to...
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  • HMS Winchelsea as a midshipman on 13 May 1784, and subsequently served in that rank in the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Ganges and 28-gun frigate HMS Maidstone...
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  • Barwell was a merchantman launched in 1782. She made six voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). She then left the EIC's service but continued...
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    The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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