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    HMS Howe was an Admiral-class ironclad battleship built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s. The ship was assigned to the Channel Fleet in mid-1890 and...
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  • Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Howe, after Admiral Richard Howe: HMS Howe (1805) was the ex-Indian merchantman Kaikusroo; renamed...
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    HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker...
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    Eton College, Richard Howe entered the navy in the fourth-rate HMS Pearl in July 1739. He then transferred to the fourth-rate HMS Severn, one of the squadron...
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    September 1902. p. 8. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Camperdown (ship, 1885). Chesneau, Roger; Koleśnik, Eugène M.; Campbell, N.J.M. (1979)...
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  • up in 1873. HMS Bulwark was previously the planned 110-gun first rate HMS Howe. She was kept in reserve and was renamed Bulwark in 1885 when she became...
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  • the role: HMS Impregnable was the original school ship between 1862 and 1888. HMS Howe was HMS Impregnable between 1885 and 1911, and HMS Impregnable...
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    William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC (10 August 1729 – 12 July 1814), was a British Army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British land...
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  • 1800. HMS Dromedary was a 24-gun storeship, formerly the merchant Kaikusroo. She was purchased in 1805 as a 40-gun and named HMS Howe, and then HMS Dromedary...
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    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...
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    She remained in reserve until being sold in 1909. Howe was delivered at Portsmouth on 15 November 1885, complete except for her main armament. She was commissioned...
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    North Ministry in March 1782 and was appointed first captain of HMS Victory under Lord Howe, and served in that capacity both in the Channel, and later on...
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    1 March 1775, and went on to serve aboard Lord Howe's flagship, HMS Eagle. Howe appointed Hurd as lieutenant of HMS Unicorn on 30 January 1777. Unicorn was a...
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    were much faster. The first example of this was HMS Rattlesnake, designed by Nathaniel Barnaby in 1885, and commissioned in response to the Russian War...
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    HMS Lenox, a guardship at Portsmouth commanded by Captain Robert Roddam, Collingwood sailed to Boston in 1774 with Admiral Samuel Graves on board HMS Preston...
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    store was constructed from the timbers of two ships: HMS Impregnable (formerly HMS Howe) and HMS Hindustan. The frontage on Great Marlborough Street is...
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  • the name—he was appointed to the 74-gun third-rate HMS Montagu, one of the grand fleet under Lord Howe during the campaigns of 1793 and 1794. In the battle...
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    action during the French Revolutionary Wars; he fell whilst in command of HMS Mars, in action with the French 74-gun ship Hercule on 2 April 1798. Hood...
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    30 August 1885, Louis was promoted to the rank of commander. The next four years were spent in the shore establishments HMS Excellent and HMS Vernon on...
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    to duty and was appointed commander of HMS Excellent. He remained with Excellent for two years until June 1885, where he gained a following of officers...
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    charged with defending the waters of the English Channel. In November 1892, HMS Howe stranded on rocks at the entrance to Ferrol Harbour; Fairfax as officer...
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    by Admiral Richard Howe. On the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France, Bligh was initially commissioned to command the 74-gun HMS Excellent before being...
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    was assigned the rank of surgeon's mate aboard the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Berwick. Britain was then at war against the Dutch, French and Spanish, and...
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    1854, from 1857 to 1864 he was in command of the two survey ships: HMS Plumper and HMS Hecate. He was the second British commissioner to the San Juan Islands...
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    The fourth HMS Colossus was a Colossus class second-class British battleship, launched in 1882 and commissioned in 1886. She had a displacement of 9,520...
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    fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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  • The Marine Engineer. Vol. 7. July 1885. pp. 97–98. "Launch of H.M.S. "Benbow"". The Marine Engineer. Vol. 7. July 1885. pp. 90–91. "Costa Rican". The Yard...
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  • Lord Howe’s fleet during the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794. He was raised to the rank of lieutenant in 1796. After a brief spell on HMS Trident...
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  • Governor-in-Chief. 14 February – HMS Supply leaves Sydney Cove to establish a settlement on Norfolk Island. 18 February – Lord Howe Island is discovered by Lieutenant...
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    beyond expectation" and Charles Darwin mentioned after his 1836 visit with HMS Beagle that he "found the natives in a state of freedom". However, the article...
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