• Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Howe, after Admiral Richard Howe: HMS Howe (1805) was the ex-Indian merchantman Kaikusroo; renamed...
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  • HMS Howe was originally the teak-built Indian mercantile vessel Kaikusroo that Admiral Edward Pellew bought in 1805 to serve as a 40-gun frigate. In 1806...
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    Hughes 1804 HMS Duncan 1805 HMS Howe 1805 Scamander class 36-gun fifth rates, 10 pine-built ships, 1813–14 HMS Eridanus 1813 HMS Orontes 1813 HMS Scamander...
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    following morning, with Howe closing on the French and then cutting through their line. Bellerophon followed Howe's flagship, the 100-gun HMS Queen Charlotte...
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    Admiral Graves was badly wounded. More disturbing to Lord Howe were the actions of HMS Russell and HMS Caesar. Russell's captain John Willett Payne was criticised...
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    Questions & Answers about HMS Victory. London: Conway. ISBN 9-780851-779881. Goodwin, Peter (2015). HMS Victory - Pocket Manual 1805. London: Conway. ISBN 978-1-84486-260-3...
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  • 1800. HMS Dromedary was a 24-gun storeship, formerly the merchant Kaikusroo. She was purchased in 1805 as a 40-gun and named HMS Howe, and then HMS Dromedary...
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  • Nathaniel Fanning (category 1805 deaths)
    September 1805) was an officer in the Continental Navy and later the United States Navy, who served aboard Bonhomme Richard during its 1779 battle with HMS Serapis...
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    and Bowyer transferred to HMS Barfleur. The Barfleur would sail with the rest of the fleet under overall command of Admiral Howe in an effort to engage a...
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    1847, he was given command of the 120-gun first rate ship of the line HMS Howe and his first commission was to conduct Her Majesty, the Dowager Queen...
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    HMS Queen was a three-deck 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 September 1769 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was designed...
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    24-gun frigate HMS Hind, the third-rate HMS Sultan under Vice-Admiral Lord Shuldham, and then in HMS Ardent under his uncle's flag. Lord Howe promoted Gambier...
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    England expects that every man will do his duty (category 1805 in the United Kingdom)
    Viscount Nelson, from his flagship HMS Victory as the Battle of Trafalgar was about to commence on 21 October 1805. During the battle, as Nelson's fleet...
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    succeeded Kempenfeldt as one of Howe's flag officers. In the American Revolutionary War, in HMS Queen, he took part in Howe's relief of Gibraltar in 1782...
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    HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship Royal William...
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    was initially in command of the 74-gun HMS Orion from 1793 and served in the Channel Fleet under Admiral Lord Howe. He was in action at the Glorious First...
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    travelling from Quebec to Britain escorted only by the 22-gun HMS Champion under Captain Robert Howe Bromley on 10 August. Although Bromley made a desperate...
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    HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of...
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    captain to Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson was shot as he...
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    Glorioso in May 1805 and then to transport British troops to Naples in November 1805. He was then given command of the third-rate HMS Victorious on the...
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    conduct, Vice-Admiral Lord Howe requested Murray's services and he was transferred to HMS Eagle. Murray went on to see action in Howe's campaigns to disrupt...
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    Renou in January 1805, Ball was appointed flag captain to Rear-Admiral Bartholomew Rowley in the 64-gun third rate ship of the line HMS Zealand as a guardship...
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    Glorious First of June in 1794 and as captain of HMS Royal Sovereign at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although he was highly praised for his actions...
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    the time, Robert Seppings and Joseph Tucker. HMS Nelson Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 23 November 1805 Laid down: December 1809 Launched: 4 July 1814...
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    the sloop HMS Senegal. Curtis performed well in his new command and a year later was again promoted after being noticed by Lord Howe. Howe made Curtis...
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  • first HMS Recovery and then HMS Raisonnable, in which he participated in the relief of Gibraltar during the Great Siege. With the fleet under Lord Howe, Lee...
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    1801, J. HMS Warrior, Commission, 1804, K. Captain and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its dependencies, papers, 1805–1811, undated...
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    first aboard HMS Preston under Commodore William Hotham, followed by HMS Eagle, the flagship of Lord Howe. Strachan went on to serve aboard HMS Actaeon off...
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    she, with HMS Diamond, captured Connecticut privateer General McDougall off Cape Cod. In July 1778, Raisonnable formed part of Lord Howe's squadron, which...
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  • the aunt of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe. Bromley joined the Royal Navy as a captain's servant on board the frigate HMS Lapwing on 26 December 1791...
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