HMS Canada was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard. On 2 May 1781, Canada engaged...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Canada, after the former British colony and modern Dominion of Canada: HMS Canada (1765) was a 74-gun third rate ship...
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Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 1 December 1759 Launched: 17 September 1765 Fate: Broken up, 1834 HMS Majestic Builder: Adams & Barnard, Deptford Ordered: 23 August...
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and found again in 2008. HMS Victory (1764), an 8-gun schooner launched in 1764. She served in Canada and was burned in 1768. HMS Victory, a 100-gun first-rate...
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name HMS Shannon, after the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland: HMS Shannon (1757) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and broken up 1765. HMS Shannon (1796)...
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Robert Swanton (category 1765 deaths)
Rear Admiral Robert Swanton (c. 1710 – 11 July 1765) was a Royal Navy officer who became commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands Station. Swanton joined...
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William IV (category 1765 births)
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June...
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young John Jervis serving on board her. HMS Experiment (1765) was a storeship, purchased in 1765 and sold in 1768. HMS Experiment (1772) was a gunboat, built...
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HMS Halifax was a schooner built for merchant service at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1765 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1768 for coastal patrol...
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War of 1812 (redirect from Invasion of Canada (1812))
advanced into Upper Canada and engaged in skirmishes at Cook's Mill, but they pulled back when they heard that the new British warship HMS St Lawrence, launched...
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in the same year at Oswego HMS Halifax (1768) was a 6-gun schooner built 1765, purchased in 1768 and wrecked in 1775 HMS Halifax (1775) was a schooner...
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Bonaventure (disambiguation) (section Canada)
a Kenyan football striker Bonaventure Panet (1765–1846), a businessman and politician in Lower Canada Bonaventure Patrick Paul (1929–2007), Pakistani...
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James Cook (category Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada))
aboard HMS Grenville. He surveyed the northwest stretch in 1763 and 1764, the south coast between the Burin Peninsula and Cape Ray in 1765 and 1766...
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Stamp Act Congress (redirect from Continental Congress of 1765)
The Stamp Act Congress (October 7 – 25, 1765), also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, was a meeting held in New York City in the colonial Province...
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Gaspee affair (redirect from HMS Gaspée (1763))
affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy customs schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts...
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under George Anson on his voyage around the world, though Byron's ship, HMS Wager, made it only to southern Chile, where it was wrecked. He returned...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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Northwest Passage (category Canada–United States border disputes)
awarded them by the British Parliament. In July 2010 Canadian archaeologists found his ship, HMS Investigator, fairly intact but sunk about 8 m (26 ft)...
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Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) (category Naval history of Canada)
December 1775) was a British Royal Navy officer. He commanded the fourth-rate HMS Gloucester and led her in action at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre...
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Tadcaster, Yorkshire, was a Royal Navy officer. As captain of the third-rate HMS Berwick, he took part in the Battle of Toulon in February 1744 during the...
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1782. HMS Monarch Builder: Deptford Dockyard Ordered: 22 November 1760 Laid down: 2 June 1761 Launched: 20 July 1765 Completed: 24 September 1765 Fate:...
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later HMS Bounty fame, was a third cousin. The younger Richard also embarked on a naval career, joining in 1750 aboard Rodney's ship, the 44-gun HMS Rainbow...
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Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada; and Howe Street, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The King George V class battleship HMS Howe bore his name. On 10 March...
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George Vancouver (category Explorers of Canada)
Goodman Hewett (1765–1834) was donated by Augustus Wollaston Franks to the British Museum in 1891. An account of these has been published. Canada Post issued...
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the beginnings of Acadian life in Louisiana, 1765–1803. LSU Press. pp. 7–9. ISBN 978-0-8071-2099-6. Canada, the Empire of the North. Forgotten Books. p...
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Nova Scotia (redirect from Nova Scotia, Canada)
the east coast of Canada, and is one of the three Maritime provinces. Nova Scotia is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada, with an estimated...
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in existence,[dubious – discuss] but there are of the 112-gun ship from 1765, from which the original dimensions of the ship may be found. Here, the units...
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to make watches, working for the watch and clock maker George Graham. In 1765 he was one of six experts selected by the Board of Longitude to witness the...
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