• rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1800. HMS Repulse (1780 cutter) was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1780 and wrecked in 1782. HMS Repulse (1794) was a 4-gun...
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  • HMS Repulse was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1780 at East Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She saw action...
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    HMS Leander was a Portland-class 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She served on the West Coast of Africa, West...
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    in May 1808, for the Downs. Douglas had been first lieutenant of HMS Repulse (1780) at the mutiny at The Nore in 1797. On 19 February 1809, Peruvian...
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    12 July – British merchantman Pole repulses the privateer American Tartar 1778, April 24 – USS Ranger captures HMS Drake (details) 1778, December – the...
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    the rank of Admiral. Dumaresq was notable for his role as Captain of HMS Repulse in the Battle of the Saintes during the American Revolutionary War. Thomas...
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    Bay. At the same time, Pearl, the fourth-rate, 50-gun HMS Renown and fifth-rate, 32-gun HMS Repulse, were sent up the North River as a diversion. On the...
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    ship on 14 May 1780. Captain Sir Digby Dent assumed the command on 30 August, and returned the ship to England. Dent transferred to Repulse on 16 December...
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    Royal Navy in 1750 aboard HMS Centurion, under Admiral First Lord Augustus Keppel, later moving to HMS Mars, HMS Garland and HMS Duke. He was commissioned...
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    (2) America-class ship of the line (2) Fame-class ship of the line (4) Repulse-class ship of the line (8) Swiftsure-class ship of the line (2) Vengeur-class...
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    Peterson who repulsed the landing of British troops from the "Vulture" September 21, 1780, aiding in the capture of Major Andre." Vulture and HMS Otter captured...
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    arrived at Boston on 11 June 1780. In 1782, she was part of de Grasse's squadron. Neptune engaged HMS Repulse and HMS Canada in the Battle of the Saintes...
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    Guildford until joining the Navy on 22 January 1780, becoming a captain's servant aboard the 28-gun HMS Nemesis.[b] Nemesis was at this time commanded...
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  • HMS Leith, also known as HM hired armed ship Leith, was launched in 1744 or 1746 in the British "Plantations", more specifically, the colony of Maryland...
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    Continental Navy ships in port on shore to reinforce the land batteries and repulse the expected British assault. However, after a rugged four-month siege...
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  • HMS Nonsuch was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Israel Pownoll and launched on 17 December 1774 at Plymouth. She was...
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    30 May 1832 HMS Repulse Builder: Robert Fabian, East Cowes Ordered: 5 February 1777 Laid down: 12 January 1778 Launched: 28 November 1780 Completed: 15...
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    HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring to the fifth-rate HMS Nonsuch in July 1680. He returned to HMS...
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  • large-scale repairs. Dent and Mounsey transferred again, this time to HMS Repulse, initially under Vice-Admiral George Darby, but later being detached...
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    36-gun frigate HMS Flora (1780) under Captain William Williams was patrolling off Ushant not far from Brest on the afternoon of 10 August 1780. Flora, as...
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    HMS Janus was a 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. Janus was a 44-gun, 18-pounder Roebuck-class ship. The class was a revival of the design...
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    William and Mary, so the Scottish frigates were renamed HMS Edinburgh and HMS Glasgow, while only HMS Dumbarton Castle retained its name. The Act of Union...
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  • having first served aboard HMS Dictator from September 1783. He passed his lieutenant's examination in 1790 and joined HMS Repulse in that capacity on 18...
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    Siege of Charleston (category 1780 in South Carolina)
    Charleston), the capital of South Carolina, between March 29 and May 12, 1780. The British, following the collapse of their northern strategy in late 1777...
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    launched in September 1757) - captured by Britain in 1759 and renamed HMS Repulse. Diligente, (one-off 26-gun design of 1755 by Joseph-Louis Ollivier and...
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  • In 1780, he was involuntarily sent to sea as a midshipman on the third-rate HMS Ariadne. He was transferred to the 28-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Desperate...
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    time for the repulse of d'Estaing on 22 July 1777 at Sandy Hook. She captured two prizes in December, 1777. On 30 January 1778 she and HMS Otter in Chesapeake...
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  • HMS Speedwell was a mercantile vessel that the Admiralty purchased in 1780. During the American Revolutionary War she served at Gibraltar during the Great...
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    HMS Standard, under Captain Thomas Harvey, HMS Thunderer, under Captain John Talbot, HMS Pompee, under flag captain Richard Dacres, and HMS Repulse,...
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  • Peregrine Bertie (Royal Navy officer) (category British MPs 1774–1780)
    given command of the sloop HMS Despatch. He was made a post-captain on 6 November 1762 and commanded the fifth-rate Repulse until February 1763. He got...
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