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    HMS Augusta was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 October 1763 at Rotherhithe. After running aground in the Delaware...
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  • weather. HMS Augusta (1736) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1736 and broken up by 1765. HMS Augusta (1763) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1763 and...
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  • renamed Augusta, then broken up in 1771. HMS Charlotte (1763), a cutter of 4 guns purchased in February 1763. She was sold on 14 November 1770. HMS Charlotte...
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    Africa prior to being paid off at Chatham in February 1763. Reynolds was the commander aboard HMS Augusta, a ship of the line bearing 64 guns, which was part...
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  • class. HMS St Albans Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard, London Ordered: 13 January 1761 Launched: 12 September 1764 Fate: Broken up, 1814 HMS Augusta Builder:...
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    was moved into HMS Temple, from which in March he was superseded. He afterwards commanded the frigate HMS Milford, till the peace of 1763. During the following...
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    line HMS Kent (1762) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Albion (1763) 74-gun ship of the line HMS Lurcher (1763) 6-gun cutter HMS Kite (1764) 4-gun cutter HMS Monarch (1765)...
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    transferred to HMS Augusta as third lieutenant. Her first lieutenant was George Johnstone, who would also figure in the history of West Florida. Augusta's captain...
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    the first lieutenant of the 14-gun sloop HMS Fortune. War with France was drawing to a close, and by January 1763 negotiations were well advanced for the...
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  • scored a significant victory when HMS Augusta (64) and HMS Merlin (18) went aground near the fort. The stern of Augusta soon caught fire and the flames...
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    grandfather, George II, he was 22 years old and unmarried. His mother, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, and his advisors were eager to have him settled in marriage...
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  • illegitimate son of Sir George Vandeput, 2nd Baronet. He was a midshipman on board HMS Neptune (the flagship of Sir Charles Saunders, stationed in the St Lawrence...
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    Commodore Lisle in command of a fleet of several ships, including HMS Vigilant, 64 guns, and HMS Ruby, 50 guns. Again, in February 1754, he attacked three Dutch...
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    renewed in 1763, after the Seven Years' War, called in colonial America the French and Indian War Outbreak of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the North...
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    midshipman on HMS Tavistock and HMS Speedwell He was promoted to lieutenant in June 1750, joining HMS Otter in Barbados. and commanding HMS Lively with...
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    transferred aboard HMS Assistance for service off West Africa. Over the next six years, Curtis moved from Assistance to the guardship HMS Augusta at Portsmouth...
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    Gustav Frederick Bentinck (1836–1871) Jan Carel van Aldenburg Bentinck (1763–1833) Willem Frederik Christiaan Bentinck, 3rd Count Bentinck (1787–1855)...
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    Rule, Britannia! (category Princess Augusta of Great Britain)
    version is taken from The Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, Published 1763, Vol II, p. 191, which includes the entire text of Alfred. When Britain first...
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    forces during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During the action, his ship HMS Bellerophon was badly damaged and boarded by sailors and marines from the...
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    and Augusta d'Este (later Baroness Truro). George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore (30 April 1762 – 11 November 1836) Hon. William Murray (22 August 1763 – 27...
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    (1764) – broken up 1814 Augusta 64 (1763) – burnt 1777 Director 64 (1784) – broken up 1801 Exeter class (Bately) Exeter 64 (1763) – burnt 1784 Europa 64...
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    64-gun HMS Augusta, forced a passage in order to support an attack on Red Bank by British troops. Joined later by the fourth-rate, 50-gun HMS Isis and...
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  • Portsmouth in 1740, and went aboard HMS Augusta in July that year. From there he went to the hospital ship HMS Princess Royal, and after a period probably...
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    Kingdom and the second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. The young prince was baptised Edward Augustus, at Norfolk...
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    February 1813 – The French frigate Aréthuse (1812) and the British ship HMS Amelia (1796) engage in battle in the Îles de Los on the Guinea Coast; both...
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    Medows continued on Isis, in the Mediterranean, until the end of the war in 1763, and in 1769 retired altogether from the Navy. In 1773, Medows's uncle, Evelyn...
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    HMY Fubbs (redirect from HMS Fubbs)
    which it did on 6 September 1761. Fubbs was recommissioned in December 1763 under Captain Richard Spry, and underwent a small repair in 1765. Her final...
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    first captain, Christopher Gunman, was court martialled for the loss of HMS Gloucester in 1682. Lawrence Wright then took command until 1685. She was...
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  • Richard; Stephenson, Wendell Holmes (1976). The South in the revolution: 1763 - 1789. A history of the South : [in eleven volumes] / eds. Wendell Holmes...
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    Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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