HMS Defiance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Randall and Co., at Rotherhithe on the River Thames, and launched on...

been named HMS Defiance. Others have borne the name whilst serving as depot ships and tenders to the establishments: English ship Defiance (1588) was...

renamed HMS Convert in 1783. She was broken up in 1791. HMS Inconstant (1783) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1783 and broken up in 1817. HMS Inconstant...

prevent her capture. HMS Vulcan (1783) was a 14-gun fireship launched in 1783. She was destroyed in 1793 to prevent her capture. HMS Vulcan (1796) was a...

HMS Blanche (1800) and participated in the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801. On 5 April Westphal was promoted to lieutenant of HMS Defiance (1783)...

the 64-gun HMS Polyphemus, one of the fleet proceeding to the Baltic with Sir Hyde Parker. Graves afterwards shifted his flag to HMS Defiance, and in her...

the insurers refused to pay, the resulting court cases (Gregson v Gilbert (1783) 3 Doug. KB 232) held that in some circumstances, the murder of enslaved...

1772 Completed: 9 May 1778 Fate: Broken up at Portsmouth, January 1818 HMS Defiance Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 9 June 1768 Laid down: October 1768...

Revolutionary Wars, and experienced two mutinies during his command of HMS Defiance in the late 1790s. He was promoted to the ranks of rear admiral in 1802...

HMS Antigua was a 14-gun sloop that served in the British Royal Navy from 1779 to 1792. In contemporary records she is sometimes referred to as "His Majesty's...

HMS Captain was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard...

1780 3 April 1783 Broken up, 1812 HMS Defiance Randall, Rotherhithe 11 July 1780 10 December 1783 Broken up, 1817 HMS Swiftsure Wells, Deptford 19 June...

under the cover of a dense fog, but was intercepted and seized by HMS Scarborough and HMS Junon. This left the French with only five half-empty ships in...

Royal Navy in 1803 and served - with distinction - as a midshipman on HMS Defiance at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). He later served as lieutenant under...

HMS Spitfire was a Tisiphone-class fireship of the Royal Navy. She served during the years of peace following the end of the American War of Independence...

The American Revolution (1765–1783) was an ideological and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated the ultimately...

the following year. On 18 June he joined the 64-gun ship of the line HMS Defiance, rated as an able seaman, and he was promoted to midshipman on her on...

64-gun HMS Defiance in February 1778, and joined the fleet under Augustus Keppel in time to fight at the Battle of Ushant on 27 July. Defiance was heavily...

other British prison ships in New York Harbor Britain's Prison Ships, 1776–1783 Ships of the Old Navy: A history of the sailing ships of the Royal Navy by...

Ark Royal – a rebuilding 1610 – HMS Prince Royal 1613 – Defiance – a rebuilding 1615 – Merhonour – a rebuilding 1616 – HMS Convertine – originally begun...

the action of 23 April 1794. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Pomone and the Endymion-class frigates were built to her lines, but with...

000. In 1794 the crew of HMS Defiance rose up in mutiny whilst the ship lay in Leith Roads. Edgar was ordered alongside Defiance, and if it were deemed...

phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted from 1775 to 1783. A list of American Revolutionary War battles gives details. John Cabot explores...

HMS Brilliant was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Brilliant was first commissioned in July 1779 under the command of Captain...

returned to Britain aboard HMS Imperieuse, and was afterwards appointed to HMS Trident, HMS Impregnable, HMS Duke, HMS Defiance and HMS Clyde in succession....

rearguard action. Continental Army riflemen fleeing the destruction of Fort Defiance fired shots at British troops advancing on the Carnarsie Indian path through...

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...

lieutenant in 1743. Promoted to captain, he commanded HMS Flamborough and HMS Squirrel. Later he commanded HMS Burford and took part in the capture of Louisbourg...

HMS St Albans was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 September 1764 by Perry, Wells & Green at their Blackwall Yard...

1805 Bombay Castle 74 (1782) – wrecked 1796 Powerful 74 (1783) – broken up 1812 Defiance 74 (1783) – broken up 1817 Swiftsure 74 (1787) – captured by France...