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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

inhabitants. In 1779, American privateers returned to Canso and destroyed the fisheries, which were worth £50,000 a year to Britain. In 1779 the British from...

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...

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...

spell of unemployment until his appointment to command the 74-gun HMS Edgar in May 1779. It was about this time that he was made a Colonel of Marines, a...

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...

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...

unserviceable at St Lucia, 30 June 1780 HMS Edgar Woolwich Dockyard 25 August 1774 -Nul 30 June 1779 Broken up, 1835 HMS Goliath Deptford Dockyard 21 February...

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...