HMS Robust was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by John Barnard and launched on 25 October 1764 at Harwich. She was the first...
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been named HMS Robust: HMS Robust (1764) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1764 at Harwich. HMS Robust (1859) – construction...
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the sloop, HMS Druid in 1762. Promoted to captain on 7 May 1764, he went on to command the frigate, HMS Alarm in 1764, the fifth-rate, HMS Pallas in 1776...
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1801 HMS Robust Builder: John Barnard, Harwich Ordered: 16 December 1761 Laid down: February 1762 Launched: 25 October 1764 Completed: 10 December 1764 Fate:...
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William Brown (Royal Navy officer) (category 1764 births)
switched Brown with Thomas Masterman Hardy on HMS Vanguard. In 1801, Brown left Vanguard and moved into HMS Robust, in which he served for one year in the Channel...
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French ship Courageux (1753) (redirect from HMS Courageux (1761))
on 17 June. The following day, Courageux was despatched with HMS Foudroyant and HMS Robust in pursuit of another French vessel. Other British ships soon...
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Harwich in 1761 HMS Terrible a 74-gun ship of the line launched at King's Yard in Harwich in 1762 as a sister ship to HMS Arrogant HMS Robust a 74-gun ship...
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time at Halifax, Nova Scotia before leaving, with the 74-gun third-rate, HMS Robust, to join Vice-Admiral Marriot Arbuthnot's squadron off Sandy Hook on 3...
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warships at Harwich Dockyard, this time as a private contractor; one of these, HMS Harwich, was considered by Pepys to be one of the finest vessels in the Navy...
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War. Stephane took up his profession to honor him and moved to Boston in 1764. Beginning with 1765, he was part of several mobs that violently protested...
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Terrible 74 (1762) – fire 1781 Russell 74 (1764) – sold 1811 Invincible 74 (1765) – wrecked 1801 Robust 74 (1764) – broken up 1817 Prince of Wales 74 (1765)...
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Christmas Special playing a judge. Troughton's health was never completely robust due to heavy drinking and smoking (he had quit smoking in the 1960s, but...
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Richard Williams (Royal Marines officer) (category 1764 births)
Portsmouth Division of the corps of Marines. As captain of Marines aboard HMS Robust, which was commanded by Captain Edward Thornbrough of the Royal Navy,...
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History of New England (section 1764–1900)
Hanover, New Hampshire in 1770. Brown University was founded by Baptists in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations...
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had convinced Allen to become a Deist. They worked on the manuscript until 1764, when Young moved away from the area taking the manuscript with him. Allen...
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HMS Lizard was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, in service from 1757 to 1828. Named after the Lizard, a peninsula in southern...
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involve many of the West’s first ferocious maritime battles). Capitalism grew robust following the fallout of the South Sea bubble two decades prior and the...
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campaign lasted 21 days. Vernon then withdrew his forces, leaving HMS Windsor Castle and HMS Greenwich in the vicinity, with a mission to intercept any Spanish...
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to 1972 on the guided-missile destroyer HMS Norfolk and the frigates HMS Minerva, from 1972 to 1973, and HMS Jupiter in 1974. That same year, he also...
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