• HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe. However, it was not actually commissioned...
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  • have been named HMS Ramillies after the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706): HMS Ramillies was 82-gun second rate launched in 1664 as HMS Royal Katherine...
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  • list of 1811. HMS Viper - tender to Ramillies, c. 1820-21. HMS Viper (1831) was a 6-gun schooner launched in 1831 and broken up in 1851. HMS Viper (1854)...
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    Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, who sailed in HMS Belleisle. The squadron, which included Prince George, Canada, Ramillies and Cerberus, captured Telemaco, Carvalho...
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  • wrecked off St. Martin in September 1801. The fourth HMS Proselyte (1804) was the Newcastle collier Ramillies that the Royal Navy purchased in 1804 and turned...
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    Broken up, 1803 HMS Ramillies Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe Ordered: 19 June 1782 Launched: 12 July 1785 Fate: Broken up, 1850 HMS Hannibal Builder: Perry...
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    battleship HMS Ramillies in August 1936. Promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1936, he attended the gunnery course at the shore establishment HMS Excellent...
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    HMS Gorgon was a 44-gun fifth-rate two-decker ship of the Adventure class of 911 tons, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1785 and completed as a troopship...
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  • John Moutray (category 1785 deaths)
    care of Captain Moutray, in the 74-gun HMS Ramillies, and was accompanied by the 36-gun frigates HMS Thetis and HMS Southampton. On 8 August unusual sails...
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    – broken up 1820 Irresistible 74 (1782) – broken up 1806 Ramillies class (Slade) Ramillies 74 (1763) – fire 1782 Monarch 74 (1765) – broken up 1813 Magnificent...
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  • George Augustus Westphal (category 1785 births)
    (27 March 1785 – 12 January 1875) was a Nova Scotian admiral in the Royal Navy who served in more than 100 actions. He was midshipman on HMS Victory during...
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    Broken up, 1834 HMS Majestic Builder: Adams & Barnard, Deptford Ordered: 23 August 1781 Launched: 11 December 1785 Fate: Broken up, 1816 HMS Orion Builder:...
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  • voyage across the Atlantic, and the Ville de Paris and HMS Centaur foundered, while HMS Ramillies had to be abandoned and burnt. Canada survived the storm...
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    rehoisted her colours and tried to make her escape. Henry Harvey in HMS Ramillies then sailed to his brother's aid; raking Vengeur du Peuple twice and...
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    set by the Defiance. It took two cannon shots from Byng's flagship, the Ramillies, and some ten to fifteen minutes for the Admiral to redirect the lasking...
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    failed to sink HMS Ramillies. On their first attempt, the torpedo went into the water; on the second attempt, the explosive caught on Ramillies' cable and...
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    April 1777 he was promoted to lieutenant under Captain Robert Digby in HMS Ramillies in which he took part in the First Battle of Ushant on 27 July 1778...
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    When she did so, Ramillies fired two broadsides, leaving Vengeur with only her foremast standing, which fell half an hour later. Ramillies sustained some...
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    beginning to drift astern but the appearance of Foudroyant, and HMS Repulse at 10:25 and HMS Ramillies at 11:00, left the French ships with no option but to surrender...
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    Lebanon, when the fleet's flagship, the battleship HMS Victoria, collided with the battleship HMS Camperdown. Victoria sank within fifteen minutes, taking...
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  • Poland and Russia May 23 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Ramillies: English, Dutch, German, Swiss and Scottish troops led by John Churchill...
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    Bickerton was given command of HMS Ruby and served in her in The Channel until September 1794 when he moved to HMS Ramillies and joined Lord Howe in the...
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  • April – Swedish victory over Russia. Battle of Ramilles or Battle of Ramillies 23 May – Duke of Marlborough, commanding an army of England, Scotland...
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