HMS Lion or Lyon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment and launched on 20 January...

in 1709. HMS Lion (1709 hoy) was a 4-gun hoy launched in 1709. She was wrecked in 1752. HMS Lion (1709) was a 60-gun third rate launched in 1709, rebuilt...

HMS Lion (or Lyon) was a stores hoy launched in 1709. She was wrecked at Port Isaac on 26 August 1752. Lion was under the command of Samuel Wakerel, master...

HMS Feversham and between 1707–1709 he commanded HMS Poole, a fifth-rate frigate. From 1710–1714 he was in charge of HMS Lion, a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of...

in 1706. In 1708/9 he designed HMS Delight (1709) in Woolwich but this was completed by Jacob Ackworth as in August 1709 Stacey was appointed master shipwright...

rising Brett saw action on 9 July 1745, when as captain of the fourth-rate HMS Lion he exchanged fire with the French ships Elizabeth and the Du Teillay: the...

The 1700s decade ran from January 1, 1700, to December 31, 1709. The decade is marked by a shift in the political structure of the Indian subcontinent...

ordered to the Mediterranean. In September 1712, HMS Superb together with HMS Cornwall, Mary and Lion, assisted Admiral John Jennings with the landing...

Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited...

marriage. In 1827, he was appointed Britain's first Lord High Admiral since 1709. As his two elder brothers died without leaving legitimate issue, William...

60 guns Plymouth 60 (1708) – rebuilt 1722 Lion 60 (1709) – rebuilt 1738 Gloucester 60 (1709) – captured 1709 Rippon 60 (1712) – rebuilt 1735 Montague 60...

Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...

The world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, HMS Warrior is launched on the Thames at Blackwall. The first section of the...

HMS Adventure was a 34-gun fourth-rate of the English Navy, built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1646. With the outbreak of the...

Mediterranean Fleet in January 1709 and went on to join the Board of Admiralty led by the Earl of Orford in November 1709. Byng was advanced to Senior Naval...

38 (launched 18 April 1707 at Lorient) – captured by the British in 1709, became HMS Sweepstakes; broken up 1716 Argonaute 42–50 (launched 14 November 1708...

(ex-Genovese, sold 1720, ex-French, sold 1711, ex-British HMS Gloucester 60, captured 1709) - Stricken 16 November 1728 San Francisco 62 (Acquired 1720)...

pattern tartan that often signifies a particular Scottish clan and the royal Lion Rampant flag. Highlanders can thank James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, for...

for the Outer Hebrides on 15 July but were intercepted four days out by HMS Lion, which engaged Elizabeth. After a four-hour battle, both were forced to...

policemen. 1 February: The last and largest warship built on the Thames, HMS Thunderer is launched by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company in...

his cousin did not assume the title and it remained dormant until 1723. In 1709 John Colville, de jure seventh Lord Colville, served as a soldier at the...

Navy's Blekoualle, Dauphine and Griffon. HMS Lion ( Royal Navy): The 4-gun hoy was captured by the French Navy. HMS Ruby ( Royal Navy): Battle at The Lizard...

Lebanon, when the fleet's flagship, the battleship HMS Victoria, collided with the battleship HMS Camperdown. Victoria sank within fifteen minutes, taking...

built in Bideford, including HMS Acorn, an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807; and HMS Mutine, HMS Fairy, HMS Carnation and HMS Ontario, which were all 18-gun...

(1667-1739) was church master and magistrate (Schout) of Vriezenveen from 1709-1739, and Jan Kruys (1767-1830) became the first Mayor of Vriezenveen from...

1707 Designed Mermaid 1707 Launched Mermaid 1708 Launched Chester 1709 Launched Lion 1710 Launched Vanguard 1711 Launched Bonaventure 1712 Launched Rose...

Forbin's squadron captured three English ships — HMS Cumberland, HMS Chester, and HMS Ruby — and sank HMS Devonshire during the Battle at The Lizard. In...

French on the fields of Blenheim (1704), Oudenarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern...

the five principal ones in Palestine, and was call'd so by the Persians. 1709: Matthäus Seutter, map: Deserta Aegypti, Thebaidis, Arabiae, Syriae etc....

shelter) would allow for a clear view, and shot, of the approaching enemy. In 1709, by an Act of Parliament, the Government compulsorily purchased the land...