name HMS Crown. Another was planned but never completed: HMS Crown (1654) was a 48-gun ship launched as Taunton in 1654. She was renamed HMS Crown in 1660...
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Crown (1793 ship) MS Albatros or Crown, a cruise ship HMS Crown (1654), a 48-gun ship launched as Taunton HMS Crown (1782), a 64-gun third rate Crown...
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HMS Crown. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns. On 14 March 1674, Crown, captained by Richard Carter, along with HMS Newcastle and HMS Cambridge...
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HMS Crown was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1782 at Blackwall Yard. She was converted to serve as a prison...
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sixth-rate HMS Lizard, the sixth-rate HMS Lyme, the fourth-rate HMS Anglesea, the fourth-rate HMS Crown, the forth-rate HMS Advice, the third-rate HMS Swiftsure...
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of the fifth-rate HMS Hopewell in 1690, the fifth-rate HMS Sweepstakes in 1691 and the fourth-rate HMS Crown in 1692. In the Crown he took part in the...
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rate and sold in 1814. HMS Jamaica (1825), a 52-gun fourth rate ordered in 1825 and cancelled in 1829 HMS Jamaica (C44), a Crown Colony-class cruiser launched...
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as HMS Bombay. She was renamed HMS Ceylon in 1808 , converted to a troopship in 1813, eventually being sold in 1857. HMS Ceylon (30) was a Crown Colony-class...
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Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mauritius, in reference to the former colony of Mauritius: HMS Mauritius (80) was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser launched...
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Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland, by HMS Newcastle. It, along with HMS Cambridge and HMS Crown, were sent instructions to capture the vessel...
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the fifth-rate HMS Perseverance on the East Indies Station. Promoted to midshipman in December 1789, he joined the third-rate HMS Crown and then transferred...
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named HMS Liverpool after the city of Liverpool, whilst another was planned: HMS Liverpool (1741) was a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate, built as HMS Enterprise...
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by Arthur Herbert (later 1st Earl of Torrington) along with HMS Newcastle and HMS Crown captured the Dutch East Indiaman Wapen van Rotterdam in the Battle...
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HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
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1787 he was briefly given command of HMS Robust before hoisting his broad pennant as commodore in the 64-gun HMS Crown in October 1788 when he was appointed...
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0 HMS Vigilant Third rate 64 Captain John Douglas 1 2 3 Centre - First division HMS Courageux Third rate 74 Captain Lord Mulgrave 1 4 5 HMS Crown Third...
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Castle-class corvette (redirect from HMS Cromer Castle)
Cliff (K495) (ex-HMS Hever Castle) HMCS Hespeler (K489) (ex-HMS Guildford Castle) (later SS Chilcotin) HMCS Humberstone (K497) (ex-HMS Norham Castle) HMCS...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Sovereign, while another was planned but renamed before being launched: HMS Sovereign of the Seas was a 102-gun...
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The forbidding form of the beached convict hulk HMS Discovery at Deptford. Launched as a 10-gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict...
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the Battle of Narvik, and later was First Lieutenant of HMS Lauderdale in 1942, then of HMS Wessex in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla of the British Pacific...
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Lord Henry Paulet (section Command of HMS Astraea)
Saintes. He was made junior lieutenant aboard HMS Crown at Spithead in early February 1789. The Crown then became flagship of Commodore William Cornwallis...
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HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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Lawrence Halsted (section HMS Phoenix)
until 18 November 1788 when he joined Cornwallis's new ship, the 64-gun HMS Crown, as his first-lieutenant and went with him to the East Indies. Cornwallis...
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July 1782, she captured the French cutter Le Pigmy, in conjunction with HMS Crown. Converted to a survey vessel, she sailed to survey the Torres Strait...
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Years' War served with Admiral Edward Hawke in the Basque Roads in command of HMS Achilles. In 1759 Achilles captured a powerful French privateer, after two...
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again, and started use of the prefix HMS. The Navy remained a national institution and not a possession of the Crown as it had been before. Following the...
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ex-HMS Crown Bergen ex-HMS Cromwell Trondheim ex-HMS Croziers Stavanger ex-HMS Crystal Type II Hunt class Arendal ex-HMS Badsworth Haugesund ex-HMS Beaufort...
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United Kingdom Naval Support Facility (redirect from HMS Juffair)
leased space in HMS Jufair and following Bahraini independence in 1971, took over the base. On 6 December 2014, it was announced that HMS Jufair would be...
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HMS Thetis (N25) was a Group 1 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy which sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay, England on 1 June 1939. After being...
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Gaspee affair (redirect from HMS Gaspée (1763))
affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy customs schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts...
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