HMS Burford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as...
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1719. HMS Burford (1722) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1722 and broken up in 1752. HMS Burford (1757) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1757 and...
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HMS Burford Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 15 January 1754 Laid down: 30 October 1754 Launched: 5 May 1757 Fate: Sold to be broken up, 1785 HMS Dorsetshire...
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by the 1745 Establishment, amended in 1750, and launched on 15 September 1757. On 31 January 1759 Montagu and Deptford chased a French privateer that Montague...
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Archive at Kew. HMS Plymouth (1755) 8-gun yacht launched at Plymouth Dockyard HMS Coventry (1757) launched at Chatham HMS Princess Amelia (1757) 80-gun ship...
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development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8. Media related to HMS Pembroke (ship, 1757) at Wikimedia Commons v t e...
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amended in 1750, and launched on 17 July 1757. Neptune was the flagship for Vice-Admiral Charles Knowles in 1757. One of Neptune's midshipmen at this time...
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development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8. Media related to HMS Dorsetshire (ship, 1757) at Wikimedia Commons v t e...
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draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 7 February 1757. From May until October 1769 she was under command of Captain Basil Keith...
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the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 7 March 1757. She participated in the 1781 Battle of Dogger Bank under the command of...
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third-rate HMS Burford on 31 May 1726. He served as a volunteer under the command of his maternal uncle, the Honourable Charles Stewart. He served with HMS Burford...
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20-gun HMS Bideford on 15 November. On 11 March 1757 he was appointed, in succession to his second brother, Francis William Drake, to the 50-gun HMS Falkland...
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Wallis) HMS Achilles 60 (Samuel Barrington) HMS Hero 74 (William Fortescue) HMS Buckingham 70 (Peter Parker) HMS Burford 70 (James Gambier) HMS Chichester...
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Brodrick entered the navy about 1723. In 1739 he was a lieutenant of HMS Burford, Admiral Edward Vernon's flagship at the Battle of Porto Bello, and commanded...
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Spring 1742. Howe next served in the West Indies aboard the third-rate HMS Burford and was present when she was severely damaged in the unsuccessful attack...
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in 1743. Promoted to captain, he commanded HMS Flamborough and HMS Squirrel. Later he commanded HMS Burford and took part in the capture of Louisbourg...
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unmolested for an attack on Quebec. After an expedition against Louisbourg in 1757 led by Lord Loudon was turned back due to a strong French naval deployment...
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this period). In June 1778 he was appointed commander of the 70-gun HMS Burford, one of the largest ships in the Royal Navy at the time. He was replaced...
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Dockyard HMS Cruizer (1721) 8-gun sloop built at Deptford Dockyard HMS Burford (1722) 70-gun ship of the line built at Deptford Dockyard HMS Scarborough...
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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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launched on 29 March 1750. The ship served in the failed Louisbourg Expedition (1757). Grafton was commissioned in February 1755 under Captain Charles Holmes...
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ship of the line HMS Burford in which he served off the coast of Ireland. He left Burford to recommission the ship of the line HMS Albion on 4 May 1778;...
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Clear, 18 December 1762 HMS Conqueror Builder: John Barnard & John Turner, Harwich Ordered: 11 January 1757 Laid down: 9 February 1757 Launched: 24 May 1758...
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ship of the line HMS Burford. While sailing off Villefranche on 7 February 1746, he was transferred to the 80-gun ship of the line HMS Russell also as...
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1805/10, broken up 1814 Third rates of 68 guns Burford class Burford 68 (1757) – sold 1785 Dorsetshire 68 (1757) – broken up 1775 Boyne 68 (1766) – broken...
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on 6 August 1757, he took on the role of captain's servant (then a standard route into a commissioned rank) on the newly built HMS Burford, where he served...
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HMS Tiger or Tygre was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment...
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HMS Greenwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built during the War of the Austrian Succession, and went on to see...
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commanded HMS Burford, guardship at Plymouth; and from 1770 to 1773 HMS Defence, in which in 1770 he took out troops to Gibraltar. In 1773 he commanded HMS Dublin...
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did not spend long aboard Cambridge, leaving in April 1757 to take command of the newly launched HMS Princess Amelia. His successor was Captain Thomas Burnet...
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