HMS Excellent was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich on 27 November 1787. She was the captaincy of John Gell...

of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Excellent: HMS Excellent (1787) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1787. She was converted into a 58-gun fourth...

HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1787 at Limehouse. She served during the French revolutionary...

Saturn of 1786 (razeed 1813) HMS Elephant of 1786 (razeed 1817-18) HMS Excellent of 1787 (began razee 1825) Another eleven more-recent 74s were razeed in...

which are listed below. HMS King Alfred: a Royal Naval Reserve unit located in the renovated "Semaphore Tower". HMS Excellent: Whale Island, Portsmouth...

13 May 1787. The journey began with fine weather, and thus the convicts were allowed on deck. The Fleet was accompanied by the armed frigate HMS Hyaena...

politician of the island. There she met Horatio Nelson, and married him in 1787. The couple moved to England, and Fanny established a household and cared...

HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...

seaman aboard the 74-gun battleship HMS Goliath. On 25 March 1787 Hibbs was transferred to the 10-gun HMS Sirius. (HMS Sirius was armed with six carronades...

him joining the British Navy in 1782. He was selected for duty on HMS Sirius in 1787. His journal was written as a memoir in 1840, after his retirement...

serving as a midshipman in HMS Victory. He was serving as master of HMS Flora in the West Indies in 1785. In April 1787 he was appointed master of Supply...

1868 HMS Vanguard Deptford Dockyard 9 December 1779 6 March 1787 Broken up, 1821 HMS Excellent Graham, Harwich 9 August 1781 27 November 1787 Broken...

Admiral Horatio Nelson, who lived in the Royal Navy Dockyard from 1784 through 1787. Today, it is part of Nelson's Dockyard National Park and the Antigua Naval...

royal yacht until 1787. In 1787 he was briefly given command of HMS Robust before hoisting his broad pennant as commodore in the 64-gun HMS Crown in October...

29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the land mass of Australia, after his extensive navigation of...

touring Quebec in 1787, he was, the next year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790...

19th centuries. His naval career began when he joined HMS Vestal as a captain's servant in 1787. In Vestal he made an aborted journey to China before...

April 1782 and added to the RN as HMS Tiger, sold 1784 Hannibal 50 (ex-British Hannibal, captured 1782) – Deleted 1787 The Republic was proclaimed on 21...

HMS Minorca. In 1779, Seymour was promoted once more, making post captain in HMS Porcupine and serving in command of HMS Diana, HMS Ambuscade and HMS...

to the training associated with the Royal Navy's new gunnery school, HMS Excellent. The Egyptians had no opportunity to correct their error; their guns...

Richard, later renamed HMS Royal James 1670 – HMS Saint Andrew; first-rate ship of the line, later renamed HMS Royal Anne 1701 – HMS Royal Sovereign; first-rate...

revolt had been suppressed in 1787, he in 1788–89 attended the military academy in Brunswick which was considered an excellent military school, together with...

Captain James Cook, in 1774, on his second voyage to the South Pacific on HMS Resolution. He named it after the Duchess of Norfolk (c. 1712 – 1773). The...

28-gun HMS Boreas, under the auspices of Horatio Nelson, and after visiting the West Indies, returned to Spithead in the summer of 1787. With HMS Boreas...

warships at Harwich Dockyard, this time as a private contractor; one of these, HMS Harwich, was considered by Pepys to be one of the finest vessels in the Navy...

food, was installed on both ships of James Cook's second voyage, HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure. During the preparations for the voyage, Cook additionally...

Schomberg took position on the ship of the line HMS Canada, whose captain commended him on his excellent seamanship. In 1781, Canada was at the relief of...

– razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1868 Vanguard 74 (1787) – broken up 1821 Excellent 74 (1787) – razéed to 58 guns 1820, broken up 1835 Illustrious...

Sydney in 1816. In 1787, James was released from Southwark gaol to voyage to the British penal colony in Australia in April 1787. The document was signed...

the Hudson's Bay Company before being transferred to Manchester House in 1787: 15–18 . During those years he learned to keep accounts and other records...