Royal Admiral was an East Indiaman, launched in 1777 on the River Thames. She made eight trips for the East India Company (EIC) before she was sold. She...
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Royal George was a three-decker East Indiaman launched in 1777. She made one voyage to Madras and China for the British East India Company. Her voyage...
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the EIC, but that the Royal Navy purchased before she launched. Royal Admiral (1777 ship), of 498 tons (bm), made eight voyages for the EIC between 1778...
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HMS Dolphin (1751) (category Exploration ships of the United Kingdom)
first ship to circumnavigate the world twice. She remained in service until she was paid off in September 1776. She was broken up in early 1777. Built...
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evolved into the post of Admiral of the Fleet. In the days of sailing ships the admiral distinctions then used by the Royal Navy included distinctions...
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Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or Almirante Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish sailor, merchant, and naval commander who served...
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HMS Royal George was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A first-rate with 100 guns on three decks, she was the largest warship in the world at the time...
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HMS Lion was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of the Worcester class, launched on 3 September 1777 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She fought...
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This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list starts from...
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HDMS Justitia was a Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy ship-of-the-line, built to a design by Henrik Gerner. Although launched in 1777, she was not fully commissioned...
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Surprise, the first American naval ship of the name, was a sloop that the Continental Navy purchased in 1777. The Royal Navy had purchased a vessel named...
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Henry Vansittart (17 April 1777 – 21 March 1843) was a British Royal Navy vice admiral. Vansittart was the fifth son of George Vansittart (1745–1825)...
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Formidable was a 98-gun second rate man-of-war serving the Royal Navy. She was launched on 20 August 1777 at Chatham Dockyard. She had a fitted weight of 1945...
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Sir John Ross CB (24 June 1777 – 30 August 1856) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored...
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Thomas Mansell (category Royal Navy rear admirals)
KCH (9 February 1777 – 1858) was a British Royal Navy rear admiral. Mansell son of Thomas Mansell of Guernsey, was born on 9 February 1777. He entered the...
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Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland KCB (7 September 1777 – 30 November 1839) was an officer in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and...
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Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (category Royal Navy admirals)
Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (c. 1704 – 9 December 1777) was a British naval officer who served in the Royal Navy, seeing service during the...
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Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith GCB GCTE KmstkSO FRS (21 June 1764 – 26 May 1840) was a British Royal Navy officer. Serving in the American and French...
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John Spratt Rainier (category Royal Navy rear admirals)
Rainier (sometimes spelt Sprat; 1777 – 13 November 1822) was an officer in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and Member of Parliament for...
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there, the ship was purchased by the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Loyalist. HMS Loyalist was fitted as a 14-gun sloop. In 1780 Admiral Arbuthnot...
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headed the Royal Danish Naval Academy from 1724 to 1841, and was the owner of Petersgaard at Vordingborg. Wulff was born on 21 February 1777 in Copenhagen...
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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (redirect from Admiral Collingwood)
Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with...
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Rear Admiral (RAdm) is a flag officer rank of the British Royal Navy. It is immediately superior to Commodore and is subordinate to Vice Admiral. It is...
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Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (1719–1777), and Catherine Hill, and was thus a nephew of Lieutenant-General Robert Pigot and Admiral Hugh Pigot, and a cousin of...
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Countess of Scarborough was launched at Whitby in 1777. The Royal Navy hired her as a hired armed ship in 1777. She participated in the capture of two privateers...
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Sphinx-class post ship of the Royal Navy. Commissioned by Captain James Shirley, Vestal escorted a convoy to Newfoundland in August 1777 and began service...
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HMS Augusta (1763) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
October 1777 during the Battle of Red Bank. On the evening of 22 October 1777, the Augusta and several other warships, under the command of Admiral Francis...
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Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Fremantle, Bt GCB GCH (20 November 1765 – 19 December 1819) was a British Royal Navy officer and...
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him at The Royal Hospital School, Suffolk.[citation needed] His brother, Admiral Sir Samuel Hood (1762–1814). His cousin once removed, Admiral Samuel Hood...
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Sloop-of-War in service with the Royal Navy in the late eighteenth century. Badger is notable as being the first Royal Navy ship to be commanded by Horatio...
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