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    HMS Britannia, also known as Old Ironsides, was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 25 April 1751 from Portsmouth...
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  • 1749. HMS Britannia (1762) was a 100-gun first rate launched in 1762. She was renamed HMS Princess Royal in 1812, HMS St George later in 1812, and HMS Barfleur...
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  • ship of the line launched in 1762 as HMS Britannia (1762). She was renamed HMS Barfleur in 1819 and was broken up in 1825. HMS Barfleur (1892) was a Centurion-class...
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  • 550 Buchnall then returned to Portsmouth in May 1762 and built: HMS Britannia (1762) – a huge 100-gun ship of the line with a crew of 850 men, had an illustrious...
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  • in 1811. HMS St George was originally HMS Britannia of 1762, renamed HMS Princess Royal in 1812, HMS St George a few days later, and then HMS Barfleur...
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    The complement of HMS Bounty, the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its departure...
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    Navy) HMS Pearl 32-gun frigate launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1762 HMS Ramillies 74-gun ship of the line launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1763 HMS Ferret...
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    significant issue for the navy. HMS Raleigh at Torpoint, Cornwall, is the basic training facility for newly enlisted ratings. Britannia Royal Naval College in...
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    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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    the same county. George Pocock entered the navy in 1718, serving aboard HMS Superb under the patronage of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master...
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    Haldane, with whom, in HMS Trial and afterwards in HMS Shoreham, he continued until the peace in 1748. In 1749, he was appointed to HMS Centurion, then commissioned...
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    required"). HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond HMS Portland HMS Somerset HMS Kent HMS Sutherland (currently completing LIFEX refit as of March 2024) HMS St Albans...
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    along with HMS Diana. The Atlante, commanded by Jean Vauquelin, and the Pomone sunk, and the important personnel were taken prisoner. In 1762, under the...
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    British Empire. September 1877: Cadet, HMS Britannia 8 January 1880: Midshipman, HMS Bacchante and the corvette HMS Canada 3 June 1884: Sub-Lieutenant, Royal...
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    HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment...
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  • 1758 Completed: 11 March 1759 Fate: Foundered off Cape Clear, 18 December 1762 HMS Conqueror Builder: John Barnard & John Turner, Harwich Ordered: 11 January...
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    fleet at the taking of Havana from the Spanish in 1762. During that action she, HMS Dragon and HMS Marlborough were ordered on 1 July to bombard and capture...
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    (Lot No. 13) at Cascade Stream in 1791. Mary Rolt returned to England on Britannia in October 1796. King was resettled in Van Diemen's Land, boarding City...
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    Captain to Rear-Admiral the Duke of York in the third-rate HMS Princess Amelia in June 1762. Howe was appointed to the Board of Admiralty led by John Montagu...
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    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...
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    the next year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790. William sought to be made...
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  • hdl:2027/mdp.39015005730638. "The Steam Packet Britannia". The Newry Commercial Telegraph. No. 1762. The British Newspaper Archive (subscription required)...
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    Havana (1762). Namur fought in the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797) under the command of Captain James Hawkins-Whitshed. Namur was astern of HMS Captain...
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    (Bomber-Reconnaissance) Squadron No. 162 (Bomber-Reconnaissance) Squadron HMS Salisbury HMS Witherington HMS Chelsea Royal Air Force No. 31 Operational Training Unit RAF...
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    First rates of 100 guns Royal George 100 (1756) – foundered 1782 Britannia 100 (1762) – renamed Princess Royal 1810, St George 1812, St Barfleur 1819...
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    Camulodunum, and made it the capital city of the new Roman province of Britannia. The first London Bridge was built by the Romans as part of their road-building...
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    subsequently recaptured by the Royal Navy's HMS Apollo. Britannia: ( Great Britain): A French privateer captured Britannia as she was on her way to the Caribbean...
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    HMS Lowestoffe was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Built during the latter part of the Seven Years' War, she went on to see action in the...
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    The relationship progressed when he invited her aboard the royal yacht Britannia for a sailing weekend to Cowes. This was followed by an invitation to...
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    Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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