23 February 1737. A small number of the timbers used in the construction of Victory were taken from the remains of the previous HMS Victory, which caught...
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Burnt by accident in February 1721. HMS Victory (1737), a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line launched in 1737. She was wrecked in 1744 in the Western...
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(born 1644) October 4/5 – John Serson, English inventor (in wreck of HMS Victory (1737)) "C/1743 X1". JPL Small-Body Database Browser. Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
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Austrian Succession: France declares war on Britain. 3 October – HMS Victory (1737) is wrecked on the Casquets in the Channel Islands with the loss of...
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John Lindsay (Royal Navy officer) (category 1737 births)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Lindsay KB (1737 – 4 June 1788) was a British naval officer of the 18th century, who achieved the rank of rear admiral late in his...
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1695 1743 11 August 1743 Sir John Balchen 1670 1744 lost at sea with HMS Victory (1737) Was promoted Admiral of the White in August 1743 from Vice-Admiral...
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line that was lost in a storm, and discovered in 2009 near Salcombe. 49°42.5′N 3°33.3′W / 49.7083°N 3.5550°W / 49.7083; -3.5550 (HMS Victory (1737))...
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Bom Jesus (lost 1533) on the coast near Oranjemund in Namibia. May HMS Victory (1737) in the Western Approaches. Tugboat Robert C. Pringle (1903) in Lake...
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Black Prince-class ship of the line HMS Hawke launched in 1820. Edgar-class cruiser HMS Hawke built in 1891. In 1737 he married Catherine Brooke, the only...
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Flotilla. HMS Victory HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales HMS Daring – completing refit, scheduled to return to the fleet in 2024 HMS Dauntless HMS Diamond...
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John Hunter (Royal Navy officer) (category 1737 births)
Vice Admiral John Hunter (29 August 1737 – 13 March 1821) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second Governor of New...
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Stacey. In 1721 Sir Jacob Ackworth sent him plans for the rebuilding of HMS Victory but these were not executed and the project was instead addressed by...
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HMS Squirrel back on the Carolinas station in 1731. He was given command of the 60-gun third-rate HMS Centurion in the West Africa Squadron in 1737 and...
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War of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action against the pirate fleet of Bartholomew Roberts in...
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Henry Harvey (category 1737 births)
Admiral Sir Henry Harvey KB (Bef. 4 Aug 1737 – 28 December 1810) was a long-serving officer of the British Royal Navy during the second half of the eighteenth...
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Charles and Henry helped maintain public interest in the Stuarts, but by 1737, James was "living tranquilly in Rome, having abandoned all hope of a restoration...
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of the Board of Longitude, 1737–1779". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 15 April 2015. Wales, William. "Log book of HMS 'Resolution'". Cambridge Digital...
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George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (category 1737 births)
British statesman. George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB, PC (Ire) (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat...
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James Nicholson (naval officer) (category 1737 births)
Nicholson (1737 – 2 September 1804) was an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Nicholson was born in 1737 in Chesterown...
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commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional...
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Sarro for the inauguration of the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples, 4 November 1737). An even earlier composition is from Antonio Caldara (Vienna 1736). Later...
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at St Andrew's Church, Holborn), who was the naval surgeon on board the H.M.S. Sirius in the First Fleet to Australia, and Charlotte Sophia Worgan (bapt...
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Hotham died unmarried, his barony passed to his brother, Sir Beaumont Hotham (1737–1814), who became 2nd Baron Hotham in May 1813. Beaumont, who was a baron...
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List of battles 1601–1800 (section 1737)
Benedict Arnold triggers a gunpowder explosion. Capture of HMS Savage 6 September - American victory over Great Britain Battle of Eutaw Springs 8 September...
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up 1769 Rippon 60 (1735) – broken up 1751 First rate of 100 guns Victory 100 (1737) – wrecked 1744 Second rates of 90 guns Duke 90 (1739) – broken up...
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described as "Indians, negroes and mulattoes" by Captain Thomas Frankland, of HMS Rose (20), on 4 June 1742. Frankland also recaptured three prizes taken by...
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m) from the hull on either side. Also Ferreira and Maria do Amparo Also HMS Carrick and Carrick Retroactively The disposable ship Columbus (108 m) was...
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Sardinia. October 4 – In one of the greatest disasters for the Royal Navy, HMS Victory sinks in a storm in the English Channel, killing 1,100 sailors and officers...
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important victory I believe ever gained against our perfidious enemies, the French". The news of Rodney's victories reached England on 18 May 1782 via HMS Andromache...
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