• Lord Mulgrave was launched at Whitby in 1783. She had a mercantile career until 1793 when the Admiralty hired her to serve as an armed ship protecting...
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    Magazine. E. Cave. p. 546. John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham First Lord of the Admiralty 1783. Hawkins, Anne (17 June 2016). Letters of Seamen in the Wars with...
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    hulked as gunnery trials ship Portsmouth 1858, broken up 1865 Mulgrave 74 (1812) – hulked as a lazaretto Pembroke 1836, powder ship 1844, broken up 1854 Anson...
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    American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the Anglo-French War (1778–1783). The Royal Navy's newly coppered ships as yet untested were used successfully...
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    He returned briefly for a third tour as First Naval Lord on the Admiralty Board led by Lord Mulgrave when the Second Portland Ministry was formed in April...
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    supported Henry Addington. Pitt returned to power in summer 1804. Lord Mulgrave succeeded Lord Harrowby at the Foreign Office at the beginning of 1805, and...
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  • Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. The ship was wrecked in a hurricane on 5 November...
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  • board the Ardent, then commanded by Lord Mulgrave. Early in 1778 he was moved to the America of 64 guns, with Lord Longford, and in her was present in...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1783 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1783. "French Sixth Rate flûte 'La Désirée' (1783)". Threedecks...
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    struck his pennant on 14 January 1783.[citation needed] During the peace Jervis married his cousin Martha, daughter of Lord Chief Baron Sir Thomas Parker...
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    John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham (category Lord Presidents of the Council)
    Fox–North coalition of 1783 but generally kept a low profile during these years. Pitt became prime minister in December 1783. Chatham supported his brother...
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    born on 10 December 1753, the second son of Constantine Phipps, 1st Baron Mulgrave and his wife Lepell. His elder brother, Constantine, and his younger brother...
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    HMS Lutine (1779) (category Ships of the French Navy)
    July 1783, she continued the same missions under Gineste. With the outbreak of the War of the First Coalition, Lutine was recommissioned as a bomb ship in...
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    First Fleet (section Ships)
    Matra in July 1783. Under Banks's guidance, he rapidly produced "A Proposal for Establishing a Settlement in New South Wales" (24 August 1783), with a fully...
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  • Thomas Pakenham (Royal Navy officer) (category Irish MPs 1783–1790)
    was severely wounded. In 1778 he joined the Courageux, commanded by Lord Mulgrave, in the fleet under Keppel, and was present in the Battle of Ushant...
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    shipbuilder George Parsons built her at Bursledon and launched her on 15 July 1783. She served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was instrumental...
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    to the bar in 1786. Perceval's mother had died in 1783. Perceval and his brother Charles, now Lord Arden, rented a house in Charlton, where they fell...
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    HMS Nassau (1785) (category United Kingdom ship of the line stubs)
    64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1785 by Hilhouse in Bristol. One of her first ship's surgeons is thought...
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    in 1764 and began his naval career twelve years later, serving with Lord Mulgrave during the American War of Independence. He initially saw action at...
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    Anne, Queen of Great Britain (category Lord High Admirals of the United Kingdom)
    the Hanoverian inheritance. Other rumours claimed she was courted by Lord Mulgrave, although he denied it. Nevertheless, as a result of the gossip, he...
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    HMCS Llewellyn HMCS Lloyd George HMCS Medicine Hat HMCS Melville HMCS Milltown HMCS Mulgrave HMCS Nipigon HMCS Noranda HMCS Port Hope HMCS Red Deer HMCS Sarnia HMCS Stratford...
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  • Edward Hughes on 27 June 1777 at the instigation of Hoar's patron, Lord Mulgrave, and returned to England on 14 May 1778. He was promoted to lieutenant...
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  • Shipbuilding in Frindsbury (category Ships built in Frindsbury)
    Diemen's Land 1812 HMS Heron—18 gun 1812 HMS Dispatch—18 gun 1812 HMS Mulgrave—74 gun 1813 HMS Euphrates—36 gun 1814 HMS Bann—20 gun Frindsbury was an...
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    older and heavier ships, like the Santisima Trinidad. 34 ships of the line (according to Schomberg) 46 ships of the line The following ships were unable to...
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    guns and a crew of 362. In 1781, Courageux was under the command of Lord Mulgrave, and in the action of 4 January 1781, she and HMS Valiant recaptured...
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  • 1781, while sailing in company with the 64-gun HMS Courageux under Lord Mulgrave, a squadron of three French frigates was spotted and chased. Two of...
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    neighbourhood Kent Park Leiblin Park Melville Cove Mulgrave Park, housing development in Mulgrave district Rockingham, village neighbourhood Sherwood...
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    for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, to grant Commissions to the Commanders of Private Ships and Vessels employed in Trade...
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    HMS Blanche (1786) (category 1786 ships)
    wounded. The two ships were joined later that morning by the 64-gun HMS Veteran, which helped exchange and secure the prisoners and tow the ships to port. Pique...
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  • painter (d. 1801) December 4 – Lord Stirling, American brigadier-general during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1783) date unknown Lê Quý Đôn, Vietnamese...
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