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    HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and...
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    at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. HMS Resolution (1770), a 74-gun third rate launched 1770; broken up 1813. HMS Resolution (1771), the vessel of Captain James...
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    HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second...
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    HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771. She had been the merchant vessel Marquis of Rockingham, launched in 1770 at Whitby. In...
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    James, Journal of the HMS Endeavour, 1768–1771, National Library of Australia, Manuscripts Collection, MS 1, 22 August 1770 Beaglehole 1968, p. 468...
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  • civilian Marquis of Granby. She was purchased in 1770 and briefly named HMS Drake. She was renamed HMS Resolution in 1771 and served James Cook on his second...
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    would later command HMS Bounty, James King (1750–1784) was second lieutenant and shared astronomical duties with Cook on Resolution. French King Louis...
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    74-gun ship of the line HMS Swallow (1769) 14-gun sloop Royal Navy launch Close (1770) HMS Resolution (1770) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Grafton (1771) 74-gun...
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    HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of...
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    Incognita. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Resolution began her career as the...
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    record, the experience at sea required for a commission. In 1770, at age 16, he joined HMS Hunter as an able seaman, the term used because there was no...
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    James, Journal of the HMS Endeavour, 1768–1771, National Library of Australia, Manuscripts Collection, MS 1, 22 August 1770 G. Williams (2002)[full...
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  • William Wales tested the clock on Cook's second South Seas journey aboard HMS Resolution, 1772–75 and were full of praise after initial scepticism. "Kendall's...
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    HMS Albion was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 16 May 1763, having...
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  • fifth rate in 1758, and sold in 1770. HMS Adventure (1763) was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1768. HMS Adventure (1771) was a survey ship...
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    again commanded HMS Resolution. Resolution began her career as the 462 ton North Sea collier Marquis of Granby, launched at Whitby in 1770, and purchased...
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    of the Acts gradually became violent, leading to the Boston Massacre of 1770. The Acts placed an indirect tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea,...
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  • Vancouver, who had studied astronomy under Wales as a midshipman on HMS Resolution during Cook's second circumnavigation, named Wales Point, a cape at...
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    Pacific voyage. In 1776, Gore joined HMS Resolution as first lieutenant for Cook's third voyage. As the Resolution explored the Pacific in search of the...
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    Britain as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation, on March 5, 1770, during the American Revolution in Boston in what was then the colonial-era...
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  • McBride, HMS Jason, Governor (1767–1768) Rayner, Governor (1768–1769) Anthony Hunt, HMS Tamar, Governor (1769–1770) George Farmer, Governor (1770) John Burr...
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  • November 1770 and posted to the vessel HMS Barfleur (1768–1819). Anderson accompanied James Cook on his second voyage, boarding the Resolution on 12 December...
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    James, Journal of the HMS Endeavour, 1768-1771, National Library of Australia, Manuscripts Collection, MS 1, 22 August 1770 Ray Parkin, (1997) H.M....
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    Fate HMS Elizabeth Portsmouth Dockyard 6 November 1765 17 October 1769 Broken up, 1797 HMS Resolution Deptford Dockyard 16 September 1766 12 April 1770 Broken...
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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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    remained in the Resolution but on the death of Charles Clerke, Cook's successor, King was appointed to command HMS Discovery, the Resolution's consort, remaining...
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    of Virginia from 1771 to 1775. Dunmore was named governor of New York in 1770. He succeeded to the same position in the colony of Virginia the following...
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    American Revolutionary War, where she became famous for her battle with HMS Quebec; in 1783, she brought the news that the war was over to America. She...
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  • Christopher Middleton (navigator) (category 1770 deaths)
    Christopher Middleton FRS (c. 1690 – 12 February 1770) was a British navigator with the Hudson's Bay Company and Royal Navy officer. He was elected a Fellow...
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    traces, camp servant and cooks. This third expedition set out in December 1770, to reach the Coppermine River in summer, by which he could descend to the...
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