HMS Niger was a 32-gun Niger-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759. In 1766, under the command of Sir Thomas Adams, Niger...

borne the name HMS Niger after the Niger River, whilst another was planned. HMS Niger (1759) was a 33-gun fifth rate launched in 1759, reduced to sixth...

West Indies in 1769 Niger class 32-gun fifth rates 1759–64; Thomas Slade design, "very similar" to the Alarm class above HMS Niger 1759 – converted to troopship...

Navy were named Negro HMS Negro (1813), ex-Niger (1759), a Niger-class frigate HMS Negro (1915), an Admiralty M-class destroyer HMS Negro (1939) (FY 717)...

1759, he joined the 70-gun HMS Monmouth as a cadet under his uncle Captain Augustus Hervey during Hervey's 21-week watch on the French fleet in 1759....

HMS Niger was originally slated to be built as a Sampson designed sloop; however, she was ordered as a First-Class sloop with screw propulsion on 20 February...

Completed: 18 January 1759 at Deptford Dockyard. Fate: Renamed Guernsey on 7 May 1800. Taken to pieces at Sheerness Dockyard in April 1801. Niger Ordered: 19 September...

did not remain long on the Dover, but was soon removed into the frigate HMS Niger. In this vessel he was employed in 1760 as a cruiser, and distinguished...

HMS Niger, which was serving in the Mediterranean, as a captain's servant. His proper service in the navy probably began in 1772, when he joined HMS Panther...

through the summer of 1759, and was present at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November in March 1760 he accompanied Denis to HMS Bellona, in which he...

having received an appointment that month to take over the 32-gun HMS Niger. Niger was initially employed off the west coast of Scotland, around the Isle...

the battle. The newcomers proved to be the 64-gun HMS Ruby, the 32-gun HMS Niger and the 28-gun HMS Pomona. The French squadron bore away for Cap-Français...

Adams (Captain?), and with Joseph Banks also aboard. HMS Niger was a 33-gun fifth-rate launched in 1759, converted to a prison ship in 1810 and renamed Negro...

HMS Montreal was a 32-gun Niger-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1761 and served in the Seven Years' War and the American...

21 June – explorer Mungo Park becomes the first European to reach the Niger River. 9 August – opening to traffic of Wearmouth Bridge, designed by Rowland...

Navy 1818 – HMS Talavera; third-rate ship of the line 1820 – HMS Beagle; ship used on naturalist Charles Darwin's famous voyage 1846 – HMS Niger, ship used...

English naval architect best known for designing the Royal Navy warship HMS Victory, which served as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar...

genus of birds JPL · 8765 8766 Niger 1304 T-2 The Niger River, West Africa; several birds and plants also have niger ("black") as a species epithet,...

Anglo-Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It opened to the public in 1759, in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. The museum's expansion...

small motorboats. Other active areas include the South China Sea and the Niger Delta. As usage increases, many of these ships have to lower cruising speeds...

Captain Hyde Parker, who was in the process of commissioning the frigate HMS Brilliant (launched in October 1757) at the beginning of the Seven Years'...

Royal Navy's HMS Ruby. Fortune ( United States Navy): The 14-gun brig-sloop was captured by the Royal Navy. HMS Montreal ( Royal Navy): The Niger-class frigate...

Benin (Togo, Benin and Nigeria west of the Niger Delta): 20.2% Bight of Biafra (Nigeria east of the Niger Delta, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon):...

Balfour Baikie (1824–1864), naturalist, philologist and surgeon on the 1854 Niger Expedition; explored the Benue River and helped open up Nigeria to British...

(1994). Torturati impiccati squartati. La pena capitale a Firenze dal 1423 al 1759 (in Italian). Florence: Bonechi. AB. "Elenco delle condanne capitali eseguite...

Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Mongolia Morocco Myanmar Nepal New Zealand Niger Nigeria North Korea Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines...

Niger near Cyzicus, slew him, and paraded his head on a pike. ...The citizens of Neapolis in Palestine, because they had long been in arms on Niger's...

William Wilberforce (1759–1833), politician and philanthropist who was a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. Between 1789 and 1807, Wilberforce...

– Scottish explorer Mungo Park becomes the first European to reach the Niger River. June 23 – Napoleon Bonaparte seizes the Papal States, which become...

Marcel Trudel recorded approximately 4,000 slaves by the end of New France in 1759, of which 2,472 were Indigenous people, and 1,132 were Black. After the Conquest...