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    HMS Cambridge – Captain Richard Boyer, January 1790 – December 1798, as quoted in Camidge, HMS Colossus. Media related to HMS Cambridge (ship, 1755)...
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  • HMS Cambridge (1695) was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1695. She was rebuilt in 1715 and broken up in 1750. HMS Cambridge (1755)...
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    career culminated when he was made captain of the Plymouth guardship, HMS Cambridge (1755). During the mutiny of 1797, mutineers imprisoned Admiral Boger in...
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    "endeavour". HMS Ranger (1752) an 8-gun sloop at Woolwich HMS Wolf (1754) an 8-gun sloop at Chatham HMS Cambridge (1755) an 80-gun ship of the line HMS Deal Castle (1756)...
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    Caroline (National Maritime Museum, London). HMS Royal George off Deptford at the launch of HMS Cambridge, 1755, (though the former ship was only launched...
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    development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8. Media related to HMS Medway (ship, 1755) at Wikimedia Commons v t e...
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    joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He served during the Seven Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped...
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  • HMS Squirrel was a Royal Navy sixth rate post ship, built in 1755. She served during the French and Indian War, most notably at Louisbourg and Quebec...
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    Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its...
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  • Popple, Governor (1747–1751) Francis Jones, Governor (1751–1755) William Popple, Governor (1755–1763) Francis Jones, Governor (1763–1764) George James Bruere...
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    Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 22 July 1754. HMS Dunkirk was sent to America in 1755, along with several other ships, under Vice-Admiral Edward...
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    William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart (category 1755 births)
    William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart KT, PC, PC (Ire) (17 September 1755 – 16 June 1843) was a British Army officer and diplomat who served as the...
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    family's pocket borough of Lymington. He was appointed to command HMS Barfleur on 4 February 1755 and petitioned the Duke of Newcastle, then prime minister,...
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    Parliament, the Southwark Market Act 1755 (28 Geo. 2. c. 9). A second act that year, the Southwark Market (No. 2) Act 1755 (28 Geo. 2. c. 23), allowed for...
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    couple had six children: James (1763–94), Nathaniel (1764–80, lost aboard HMS Thunderer which foundered with all hands in a hurricane in the West Indies)...
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    James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (category Alumni of King's College, Cambridge)
    Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton, succeeded him. Secondly, on 31 July 1755, at St James's Church, Piccadilly, he married Bridget, daughter of Sir John...
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    Portsmouth in 1755. As it began to seem more likely that war would break out with France, Hawke was ordered to hoist his flag in the first-rate HMS St George...
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    in February 1755 under Captain Charles Holmes, in the months immediately before the commencement of the Seven Years' War. On 11 May 1755 she was assigned...
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    fifth-rate HMS Penzance in February 1752. He went on to be treasurer of Greenwich Hospital in February 1754 and Comptroller of the Navy in December 1755. Saunders...
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    war HMS Minorca was built at the dockyard in 1779. In 1798 the 18 gun brig sloop HMS Port Mahon was also constructed here. HMS Minorca (1779) HMS Port...
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    British Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755 to 1782. He saw action in command of various ships, including the fourth-rate...
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    September 2009. "No. 9493". The London Gazette. 12 July 1755. p. 1. Fish, Shirley (2015). HMS Centurion 1733–1769 An Historic Biographical-Travelogue...
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    the face of a Spanish threat, he saw action as captain of the third-rate HMS Norfolk at the Battle of Toulon during the War of the Austrian Succession...
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    the capture of the Spanish ship, Princesa. On 18 April 1740, Orford, HMS Kent and HMS Lenox were sailing off the coast of Cape Finisterre. They encountered...
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    Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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    1754 as captain of the 58-gun HMS Cumberland. Watson's squadron co-operated with Clive in the conquest of Bengal. In 1755 Pocock became rear-admiral, and...
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    of the sixth-rate HMS Dolphin in the Mediterranean Fleet in June 1752. In January 1755, Howe was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Dunkirk and was sent...
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    the south wing of Melford Hall. In October 1755 Hyde Parker commissioned the newly launched post ship HMS Squirrel. A year later, in her he captured the...
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    Gerhard von Scharnhorst (category 1755 births)
    Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (12 November 1755 – 28 June 1813) was a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief...
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    arms of Seljord in Norway Maned sea serpent from Bishop Erik Pontoppidan's 1755 work Natural History of Norway The Gloucester sea serpent of 1817 A hairy...
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