• Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ruby: English ship Ruby (1652) was initially a 40-gun warship launched in 1652. She fought in the...
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  • renamed HMS Kennington in 1735 and launched in 1736. HMS Mermaid was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1708 as HMS Ruby. She was renamed HMS Mermaid in...
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    HMS Ruby was an Emerald-class composite screw corvette that served in the Victorian Royal Navy. The Emerald class was a development of the wooden Amethyst...
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    HMS Ruby was one of 20 Acorn-class (later H-class) destroyers built for the Royal Navy that served in the First World War. The Acorn class were smaller...
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  • HMS Ruby was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1776 at Woolwich. She was converted to serve as a receiving...
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  • Look up Ruby or ruby in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ruby is a red gemstone. Ruby may also refer to: Ruby, Alaska Ruby, Arizona Ruby, Copiah County...
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    Spanish vessel, but governor Thomas Lynch of Jamaica ordered HMS Ruby to give Bannister chase. Ruby was able to capture Bannister and take him to Jamaica where...
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    Beatty left HMS Alexandra in March 1889 and joined the cruiser HMS Warspite in July 1889 for manoeuvres before joining the sailing corvette HMS Ruby in September...
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  • Ruby Prize was the French privateer Entreprenante, commissioned in 1693 at Brest, that HMS Ruby captured in 1694 and that the British Royal Navy named...
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  • by Jamaican authorities for over two years, is captured and hanged on HMS Ruby in Port Royal. December – The Duke of Albemarle arrives in Port Royal as...
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  • Ewer in the 'ADM' series Philemon Ewer at Maritime Memorials Greyladyes Arts Foundation (House built by 'The Master Shipbuilder') Career of HMS Vanguard...
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  • HMS Ruby was a 40-gun frigate of the Commonwealth of England, built by Peter Pett at Deptford. She took part in actions during all three of the Anglo-Dutch...
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    fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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  • 1865, sold in 1906 Gleaner Deptford Dockyard 7 October 1854 Sold at Montevideo in April 1868 Ruby Deptford Dockyard 7 October 1854 Broken up October 1868...
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  • for the local trade. Ruby was a French privateer that HMS Ruby captured in 1695 and that the British Royal Navy named HMS Ruby Prize and sold in 1698...
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  • naval encounter primarily fought between HMS Ruby and the French ship Solitaire off the coast of Martinique.  Ruby easily defeated Solitaire. By the end...
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    Lestock. He was moved to HMS Sandwich in March 1745, and shortly thereafter to HMS Ruby. On 11 April 1746 Ruby, with HMS Defiance and HMS Salisbury, was dispatched...
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  • HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Joseph Allin the elder at Deptford Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment, and...
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  • commanded, successively, the fifth-rate HMS Stag, the third-rate HMS Royal Oak and, finally, the third-rate HMS Ruby and took part in the action of 7 March...
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    an explosion occurred in one of the cutters of HMS Arrogant, Lieutenant Dowell, who was on board HMS Ruby, took three volunteers and went, under very heavy...
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    He attended the gunnery school HMS Excellent in 1880 and then joined the staff there in 1882. He returned to HMS Ruby on the South East Coast of America...
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    Navy's 40-gun warship, HMS Ruby, captures the French privateer Entreprenant in battle. The confiscated ship is renamed HMS Ruby Prize. April 12 – The French...
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    HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Bursledon in Hampshire to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals...
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  • have been named Rubis ("Ruby"), or Ruby as it was spelled until the 18th century: Rubis (1648), a 48-gun ship of the line. HMS Ruby (1666), originally Rubis...
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    the battle. The newcomers proved to be the 64-gun HMS Ruby, the 32-gun HMS Niger and the 28-gun HMS Pomona. The French squadron bore away for Cap-Français...
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  • 1746, he was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Augusta and then, later that year, the fourth-rate HMS Ruby, in which he took part in the raid on Lorient...
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  • Launched November 1664 Completed January 1665 Captured September 1666 by HMS Royal James Fate Hulked in January 1686 at Portsmouth and taken to pieces...
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    of the 50-gun HMS Falkland and the sloop HMS Lizard in 1744, the 50-gun HMS Ruby in 1745, the 24-gun HMS Fox in 1746, and the 60-gun HMS Anson in 1747...
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    take the lead himself, and Breda pulled ahead, followed by the 50-gun HMS Ruby under Captain George Walton. The two maintained contact with the French...
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  • made an acting sub-lieutenant. During 1911, he served aboard a destroyer, HMS Ruby. He spent the next period on course at Portsmouth and studying at the Royal...
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