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    HMS Raven was launched in 1796. She performed a supporting role at a notable battle in 1797. She was wrecked in 1798. Lieutenant John Giffard was promoted...
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  • Navy until sold at Brest in 1791. HMS Raven (1796) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1796 and wrecked in 1798. HMS Raven was an 18-gun brig-sloop, previously...
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  • Loyalty Islands of Maré, Lifou, Tiga and Ouvéa between August 1793 and May 1796. Raven was granted 100 acres (40 ha) of land in the vicinity of Tennyson Point...
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  • HMS York was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 March 1796. She served briefly in the West Indies where she captured...
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    HMS Arrow was a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy that the Admiralty purchased in 1796. during the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in many actions...
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    On 7 January 1783, Concorde was in company with Nymphe. They sighted HMS Raven, which initially sailed towards them until she realized that they were...
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    and English Channel. The Royal Navy captured her in 1796, commissioning her as the sloop-of-war HMS Bonne Citoyenne. Under British command she served in...
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    Vengeance-class frigate of the French Navy. HMS St Fiorenzo captured her in 1797 and the Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Fisgard. She was sold in 1814. The...
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  • including the bribe. In 1797, Puget was given command of the sloop-of-war HMS Raven and joined the fleet of Sir John Jervis. Jervis put him in charge of the...
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  • twentieth century. Armstrong covers two men, the ornithologist Charles Earle Raven (1885–1964) and his own father, Edward Allworthy Armstrong (1900–1978),...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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    HMS Suffolk later that month. Promoted to lieutenant on 25 May 1744, he joined the bomb vessel HMS Comet and then transferred to the first-rate HMS Royal...
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    Earl of Abergavenny was an East Indiaman launched in 1796 that was wrecked in Weymouth Bay, England in 1805. She was one of the largest East Indiamen ever...
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  • HMS Calpe was the former 14-gun polacca San José of the Spanish Navy, originally built in 1796 in Greece. The British captured her in 1800 and commissioned...
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    HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard, with the keel being laid down...
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    at about 15 years of age and served on various ships: HMS Venus, HMS Ramillies, HMS Raven, and HMS Lark. On 23 April 1778 Ball was commissioned a lieutenant...
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    1796–1797 was one of the stormiest of the 18th century. The British Royal Navy lost the ships of line HMS Courageux, wrecked off Gibraltar, and HMS Bombay...
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  • disappears from Lloyd's Register after 1798. In December 1797 Raven was appointed master of HMS Buffalo to sail her from England to New South Wales. The table...
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    HMS Hindostan (later variously Hindustan) was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman Hindostan...
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    when the ship captured numerous British merchantmen and five warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. Its capture of Guerriere earned...
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  • them. 6 November – The Britannia, under the command of Captain William Raven, arrives at Dusky Sound from Port Jackson to drop off a sealing party. This...
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    Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (category British MPs 1790–1796)
    the fireship HMS Raven. He commanded a number of frigates before being promoted to a ship of the line. In 1782, he commanded the 98-gun HMS Duke at the...
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  • Jervis on board the ship of the line HMS Foudroyant. In January 1780 he served on Vice-Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Victory at the relief of Gibraltar...
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    Navy, but sold to the Imperial Russian Navy before commissioning. Between 1796 and 1805 she served in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. She was wrecked...
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    HMS Perseverance was a 36-gun Perseverance-class frigate of the British Royal Navy. She served on the North American station until 1787, after which she...
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  • mutiny. An informer named two ringleaders, whom Marshall then transferred to HMS Sirius. There they received 24 lashes each and then were again transferred...
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    of the line built at Lorient from 1784 to 1785 by engineer Segondat. In 1796, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Esprit-Tranquille Maistral...
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  • Prowse to his first independent command, the 14-gun sloop HMS Raven on 20 October 1796. Raven was with Jervis's fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent...
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  • "No. 13960". The London Gazette. 13 December 1796. p. 1210. "No. 13956". The London Gazette. 29 November 1796. pp. 1159–1160. Lloyd's List №4314. Lloyd's...
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    HMS Apollo, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of the Lively class, carrying 38 guns, launched...
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