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    HMS Martin was a 16-gun sloop of the Royal Navy. She served at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797 and captured two privateers before she disappeared in 1800...
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    French in 1702. HMS Martin (1761) was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1761 and sold in 1784. HMS Martin (1790) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1790. She foundered...
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    HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable...
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    HMS Boyne was a 98-gun Royal Navy second-rate ship of the line launched on 27 July 1790 at Woolwich. She was the flagship of Vice Admiral John Jervis...
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    HMS Queen Charlotte was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1790 at Chatham. She was built to the draught of...
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    would not find them and bring them to justice. HMS Pandora was sent out by the Admiralty in November 1790 in pursuit of Bounty, to capture the mutineers...
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    room in the launch. After Bligh reached England in April 1790, the Admiralty despatched HMS Pandora to apprehend the mutineers. Fourteen were captured...
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    held at the National Archives in Kew. HMS Leopard (1790) 50-gun ship of the line HMS Martin (1790) 16-gun sloop HMS Minotaur (1793) 74-gun ship of the line...
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    Barfleur and then the first-rate HMS Royal George. Promoted to lieutenant on 22 October 1790, Martin served in the third-rate HMS Canada in the Channel Squadron...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    HMS Hermione was the lead ship of the Hermione-class, a six-ship class of 32-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 September...
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    The complement of HMS Bounty, the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure...
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    John Adams (mutineer) (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
    survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams, but he used the...
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    Journals of the First Fleet (category 1790 documents)
    Bradley's journal also documents his journey to Norfolk Island in March 1790. HMS Sirius was wrecked on arrival, and Bradley remained for 11 months undertaking...
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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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    1790s (redirect from 1790's)
    (pronounced "seventeen-nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1790, and ended on December 31, 1799. Considered as some of the Industrial Revolution's...
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    Cook to locate the island in July 1773. In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the British merchant ship HMS Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and...
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  • nactus es; hanc exorna", note from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke "The Lake of Nemi called Speculum Diane – YCBA Collections...
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    February 1790, to a design developed by Surveyor of the Navy Sir John Henslow. She was one of three ships of the Neptune class, alongside her sisters HMS Temeraire...
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  • Henry Martin, 1st Baronet (29 August 1733 – 1 August 1794) was a Royal Navy officer whose final appointment was Comptroller of the Navy from 1790 to 1794...
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    Genoa as flagship of Rear Admiral Martin. She covered the rear of the French line, exchanging fire with HMS Bedford and HMS Egmont, but lost contact with...
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    between December 1789 and October 1790. In 1790 he was promoted to captain at the age of 22 and was briefly captain of HMS Lowestoffe. Stopford fought at...
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    year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790. William sought to be made a duke like...
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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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    arrived at Lisbon, Portugal on 13 September, She departed on 17 September with HMS Phaeton for the Straits of Gibraltar. She arrived at Cadiz, Spain on 23 Sept...
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    Events from the year 1790 in Canada. Monarch: George III Governor of the Canadas: Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas...
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    HMS Guardian carrying stores for the colony strikes an iceberg and is forced back to the Cape. It never reaches the colony in New South Wales. 1790:...
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    Island 540 kilometres (340 mi) to the northwest, for about 400 years. In 1790, nine of the British sailors from the Bounty led by Fletcher Christian, along...
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    HMS Speedy was a 14-gun Speedy-class brig of the British Royal Navy. Built during the last years of the American War of Independence, she served with...
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  • HMS Gibraltar Prize, also known as HMS Gibraltar's Prize, was a sloop of the Royal Navy. She began life as the French privateer schooner Glaneur, but HMS Gibraltar...
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