• HMS Falmouth was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 18th century. The ship participated in several...
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  • 1658. HMS Falmouth (1693) was a 58-gun fourth rate launched in 1693 and captured by French privateers in the Mediterranean in 1704. HMS Falmouth (1708) was...
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    Dockyard HMS Gosport (1707) 42-fun frigate built at Woolwich Dockyard HMS Squirrel (1707) 24-gun ship at Woolwich Dockyard HMS Falmouth (1708) 54-gun ship...
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    Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire in the Indian subcontinent. February 26 – HMS Falmouth, a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built at Woolwich Dockyard for...
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    1838 HMS Erne 1813 – lost 1819 lost HMS Leven 1813 – hulked 1833, broken up 1848 HMS Falmouth 1814 – sold 1825 HMS Cyrene 1814 – sold 1828 HMS Bann 1814...
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    Jones KBE FRS FRSE PRAS 1950, William Hamilton Shortt FBHI 1959, Viscount Falmouth 1960, Lord Harris 1969, Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley OBE FRS 1974,...
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    Two ships, HMS Falmouth and HMS Dragon, were sent from England, while HMS Feversham and HMS Lowestoft were sent from New York to join with HMS Chester,...
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    HMS Rye, Somerset, Swiftsure, Valeur) as well as four fireships (Firebrand, HMS Griffin, Phoenix, HMS Vulcan), the sloop HMS Weazel and the yacht HMS...
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    Navy's Auguste and Jason. HMS Elizabeth ( Royal Navy): The 70-gun third rate was captured by the French Navy. HMS Falmouth ( Royal Navy): The 50-gun fourth...
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    a frigate squadron, consisting of HMS Indefatigable, HMS Amazon, HMS Phoebe, HMS Révolutionnaire and the lugger HMS Duke of York, under the command of...
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    (Spain or France) wrecked on the south coast of Cornwall while heading for Falmouth. Cargo valued at £3,000. Scheduled Ancient Monument no. 1189787 Saint Marie...
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    be captain of HMS Mary, and during the Nine Years' War with France successively commanded HMS Boyne, HMS Newcastle, HMS Falmouth, and HMS Medway, for the...
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    Dragon 50 (1707) – wrecked 1712 Falmouth 50 (1708) – rebuilt 1729 Pembroke 50 (1710) – broken up 1726 Ruby 50 (1708) – renamed Mermaid and reduced to...
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    in 1709, became HMS Sweepstakes; broken up 1716. Argonaute, 42 (later 50) guns, design by Blaise Pangalo, launched 14 November 1708 at Brest – hulked...
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    Pierre Coulomb, launched 12 December 1708 at Lorient) – Captured by the British in 1710 and added to the RN as HMS Superb 64, BU 1732 From 1670, the French...
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  • Lieut. Lapenotière, having made his last change of horses on his post from Falmouth the previous evening at Hounslow. 9 December: City Canal opens across the...
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    Increase Mather served as Harvard College's president from 1681 to 1701. In 1708, John Leverett became the first president who was not also a clergyman. In...
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    and south porches, and a chancel with vestry. The tower was completed in 1708, and the original wooden/lead covered spire was replaced by a stone spire...
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    Dockyard. Similar bases were established during the Napoleonic Wars at Falmouth (for vessels in Carrick Roads) and Great Yarmouth (for vessels in Yarmouth...
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  • by Ethan Allen fails; Allen is captured. Burning of Falmouth 18 October - British burn Falmouth, Massachusetts Battle of Kemp's Landing 15 November -...
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    March 1740, the British squadron, composed of the ships Stafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the frigate Diamond, the bomb vessels Alderney, Terrible...
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    February that a great tragedy occurred. Franchise and her convoy were in Falmouth Roads on a stormy night when she ran into the transport John & Jane, under...
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  • 1701–1705 and 1705–1708, who lost his left arm at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. George Clarke, MP for Winchelsea 1702–1705, East Looe 1705–1708, Launceston...
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  • English politician (d. 1678) January 11 Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth, English noble, son of Charles Berkeley (d. 1665) John Rogers, English-born...
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    Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire in the Indian subcontinent. February 26 – HMS Falmouth, a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built at Woolwich Dockyard for...
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  • Tortosa (1708) – 1708 – War of the Spanish Succession Capture of Minorca (1708) – 1708 – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Alicante – 1708 – 1709 –...
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    Lima, Mexico City and Bogotá is with the secular clergy. October 16 – At Falmouth, a part of the British Province of Massachusetts Bay that would later be...
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  • Edmund Dummer (naval engineer) (category British MPs 1707–1708)
    connections" (PDF). HMS News. Historical Metallurgy Society. Retrieved 11 October 2009. "Edmund Dummer's Packet Service". Falmouth Packet Archives 1688–1850...
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  • Saenredam, Dutch painter (b. 1597) June 3 Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth, son of Charles Berkeley (b. 1630) James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough,...
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  • ocean liner Dresden to Reiher at a position 12 nautical miles (22 km) off Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The transfer was to prevent the gold being seized...
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