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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1685. HMS Ruby (1708) was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1708. She was renamed HMS Mermaid in 1744 and was sold in 1748. HMS Ruby (1745)...
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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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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 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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Rubis (1707), a 56-gun ship of the line, formerly HMS Ruby captured by Mars in 1707. Broken up in 1708. Rubis (1709), a gunboat. Rubis (1729), a 52-gun...
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in 1708 HMS Ruby 54-gun ship of the line launched at Deptford in 1708 Remodelling of HMS Mary Galley 42-gun frigate launched at Deptford in 1708 HMS Fortune...
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Sapphire (1660) Bristol (1660) Ruby Group Ruby (1660) Diamond (1660) Bonaventure 48 – previously named HMS President. Renamed HMS Bonaventure in 1660, rebuilt...
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of and on 20 June 1708 had him nominated a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral. With the Prince's death, 28 October 1708, this appointment...
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on a career at sea in the merchant navy, and was a volunteer on HMS Diamond in 1708. In that year, or shortly after, he inherited the Charlton, Worcestershire...
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Sir Edward Goodere, 1st Baronet (category British MPs 1708–1710)
Sir John Dineley Goodere, 2nd Baronet, who was later strangled on board HMS Ruby, a crime for which his younger brother Samuel was executed. Sir John had...
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Blekoualle, Dauphine and Griffon. HMS Lion ( Royal Navy): The 4-gun hoy was captured by the French Navy. HMS Ruby ( Royal Navy): Battle at The Lizard...
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Guildhall, London (category Ruby Jubilee of Elizabeth II)
destroyed in Guildhall during the Great Fire of London. They were replaced in 1708 by a large pair of wooden statues carved by Captain Richard Saunders. These...
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Pierre Coulomb, launched 12 December 1708 at Lorient) – Captured by the British in 1710 and added to the RN as HMS Superb 64, BU 1732 From 1670, the French...
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three English ships — HMS Cumberland, HMS Chester, and HMS Ruby — and sank HMS Devonshire during the Battle at The Lizard. In March 1708 he was given command...
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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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George Farquhar 1707 in literature – Arithmetica Universalis – Isaac Newton 1708 in literature – An Argument against Abolishing Christianity – Jonathan Swift...
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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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