June 1794. HMS Amazon was one of the first series of three Amazon-class sailing frigate constructed for the Royal Navy between 1771 and 1773, from a design...
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in 1745. She was sold in 1763. HMS Amazon (1773) was a 32-gun frigate launched in 1773 and broken up in 1794. HMS Amazon (1795) was a 36-gun frigate launched...
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Williams. HMS Thetis 1773 – ran onto a rock and sank near Saint Lucia on 12 May 1781. HMS Amazon 1773 – broken up 1794 HMS Ambuscade 1773 – taken by...
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classes of frigate of the Royal Navy have been named the Amazon class: The Amazon-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery...
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HMS Ambuscade was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built in the Grove Street shipyard of Adams & Barnard at Deptford in 1773. The French...
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in 1745 and sold in 1764. HMS Siren (1773) was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth rate launched in 1773 and wrecked in 1777. HMS Syren (1779) was a 24-gun...
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mate and six men on longboats from Kingfisher. On 5 June, 1777 she, HMS Amazon, and HMS Juno recaptured privateer brig "Lucy" 15 Leagues off Nantucket. On...
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HMS Thetis was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Wyatt & Co. at Buckler's Hard shipyard in 1773. From 1777 to 1781 she served with...
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1773 HMS Vengeance (1771) 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1774 Experiment-class ship (1772) a series of 50-gun ships Sphinx-class post ship (1773)...
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in turn of HMS Amazon, Levant, Preston and Pearl. He was knighted on 10 June 1772 and appointed Governor of Jamaica in February 1773, taking up his post...
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HMS Albion was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 16 May 1763, having...
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Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
May: HMS A3 May (unknown date): USLHT Armeria, USS Pensacola 8 Jun: Vendémiaire 26 Jun: Naniwa 8 Aug: HMS Holland 5 17 Aug: Leafield 1 Sep: HMS Waterwitch...
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of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...
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SMS Viribus Unitis 5 Nov: HMS Campania 6 Nov: USS Jolly Roger 9 Nov: HMS Britannia, USS Saetia 10 Nov: HMS Ascot 11 Nov: USS Ophir 14 Nov: HMS Cochrane 15 Nov:...
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RMS Amazon was a wooden three-masted barque, paddle steamer and Royal Mail Ship. She was the first of 5 sister ships commissioned by the Royal Mail Steam...
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Vasa (ship) (redirect from HMS Wasa)
spoons, and even a backgammon game, have been made. Batavia Kronan Mary Rose HMS Royal George List of world's largest wooden ships "Vasa in numbers – The...
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(1941)1 Shinano (1944)1 Passenger ships and cargo liners Sea Venture (1609) Amazon (1851) City of Philadelphia (1854) New Era (1854) Tayleur (1854) Willem...
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was located two days after the sinking by seamen from the English frigate HMS Leander, and a diver named John Wallace was able to see and draw the wreck...
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HMS Polyphemus, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 April 1782 at Sheerness. She participated in the 1801 Battle of...
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HMS Emerald was a 36-gun Amazon-class fifth rate frigate that Sir William Rule (Surveyor of the Navy) designed in 1794 for the Royal Navy. The Admiralty...
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2 Dec: HMS Implacable Unknown date: Empire Flamingo Other incidents 1 Jan: Queen Mary 20 Apr: HMS Amethyst (grounding), HMS Consort 26 Apr: HMS Amethyst...
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Major explorations after the Age of Discovery (section Alfred Russel Wallace Amazon and Malay explorations (1848–1862))
than had ever been voluntarily entered before by any vessel. On 17 January 1773 the Antarctic Circle was crossed for the first time in history and the two...
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Vansittart (1719)2 Fortuyn (1723) Zeewijk (1727) Amsterdam (1749) Royal Captain (1773) Hartwell (1787)2 George Green (1830) Carrier Pigeon (1852) Schomberg (1855)...
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Belgrano 4 May: HMS Sheffield 10 May: ARA Narwal 11 May: ARA Isla de los Estados 22 May: HMS Ardent 24 May: HMS Antelope 25 May: HMS Coventry 30 May:...
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Jul: HMS Valorous Jul Saint Louis 19 Sep: Austerlitz 27 Sep: Vesta 30 Sep: Ocean 28 Oct: HMS Cossack 14 Nov: HMS Agamemnon, HMS Britannia, Iéna, HMS Sans...
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HMS Orpheus was a 32–gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1780, and served for more than a quarter of a century, before she was...
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was carried on the muster roll of the sloop HMS Ranger on the Irish Station in 1773, and on that of HMS Kent, the guard ship at Plymouth, the next year...
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Whistleblowing tradition in what would soon become the United States had a start in 1773 with Benjamin Franklin leaking a few letters in the Hutchinson affair. The...
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written by John Gay, parodied by Thomas Arne as Achilles in petticoats in 1773. Achille in Sciro is a libretto by Metastasio, composed by Domenico Sarro...
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and were promised repatriation. At noon on 7 August, HMS America, HMS Stately, HMS Echo and HMS Rattlesnake opened fire on Dutch forward positions. Return...
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