HMS Edgar was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, that saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...

1774. HMS Edgar (1779), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1779, converted to a prison hulk in 1813, renamed Retribution in 1814, and broken up 1835. HMS Edgar (1858)...

Years' War. The second HMS Gibraltar (1754) was a 20-gun sixth rate in service from 1754 to 1773. The third HMS Gibraltar (1779) was an American 14-gun...

of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Endymion after the Greek hero Endymion. HMS Endymion (1779), launched in 1779, was a 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth...

HMS Fury was a Swan class ship sloop of the Royal Navy and was launched in March 1779. She performed mainly anti-privateering duties during the American...

Crescent was sold in 1777. HMS Crescent (1779) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1779, that the French captured off Cadiz in 1781. HMS Crescent (1784) was...

19 March 1779, taking up command in the Downs in 1779 during the American War of Independence. He flew his flag at first aboard the 60-gun HMS Dunkirk...

January 1775 Launched: 28 August 1779 Completed for Sea: 23 September 1779 Fate: Broken up, 1818 A fifth ship Edgar was also ordered (16 July 1774) to...

vessels as prizes. On 23 September 1779, the squadron encountered the Baltic Fleet of 41 sail under convoy of HMS Serapis and HM hired armed ship Countess...

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...

hanged on board HMS Sandwich on the 30th Day of June. The seafaring novels The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe and...

trailing in the Spanish fleet, received broadsides from HMS Edgar, HMS Marlborough, and HMS Ajax before blowing up around 4:40, with the loss of all...

the privateer Gerard on 23 March 1779. He then commanded the privateer Nantz. He fell in with HMS Shaftsbury in July 1779 and was taken prisoner again. He...

HMS Cumberland (74) Captain J. Peyton HMS Edgar (74) Captain John Elliot HMS Montagu (74) Captain J. Houlton HMS Monarch (74) Captain Adam Duncan HMS Shrewsbury...

honour The 74-gun Black Prince-class ship of the line HMS Hawke launched in 1820. Edgar-class cruiser HMS Hawke built in 1891. In 1737 he married Catherine...

speed. Speedy may refer to: HMS Speedy, nine ships of the Royal Navy Speedy-class brig, a class of naval ship Speedy (1779), a whaler and convict ship...

on board HMS Scorpion, Duke, and Venus. After the peace he was appointed to HMS Antelope with his cousin Thomas, whom he followed to HMS Edgar, and by...

guardship HMS Edgar, where he would remain for the next three years. The command of a series of frigates followed in quick succession, HMS Tweed, HMS Levant...

Barrington's flagship, the 74-gun HMS Prince of Wales. In May 1779 he was briefly ordered to be master and commander of the storeship HMS Supply, but had returned...

HMS Buckingham (later renamed HMS Grampus) was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard by John Holland to the...

HMS Minerva was one of the four 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759 and served through the Seven...

which he took part in the Battle of Ushant on 12 December 1781, engaging HMS Edgar. He captained the 74-gun Magnifique at the Battle of the Saintes on 12...

of 1778, he was appointed to HMS Suffolk, from which he was almost immediately moved into HMS Monarch. In January 1779, he sat as a member of the court-martial...

lieutenant aboard the 32-gun HMS Arethusa, under Captain Charles Holmes Everitt. It was to be a short-lived appointment as on 19 March 1779 she ran aground and...

1852. HMS Retribution 1814–1835 Woolwich and Sheerness Retribution was a prison hulk launched in 1779 as the 74-gun Third-rate HMS Edgar. Edgar was converted...

HMS Ganges was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1782 at Rotherhithe. She was the first ship of the Navy to bear the...

HMS Thunderer was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in 1783. She carried 74-guns, being classified as a third rate. During her service she took...

appointed him as master and commander of the brig HMS Badger on 8 December. Nelson and Badger spent most of 1779 cruising off of the Central American coast,...

HMS Royal George was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A first-rate with 100 guns on three decks, she was the largest warship in the world at the...

Stephen Decatur Jr. (/dɪˈkeɪtər/; January 5, 1779 – March 22, 1820) was a U.S. naval officer and commodore. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland...