HMS Dover and broken up in 1771. HMS Renown (1774) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1774 and broken up in 1794. HMS Renown (1798) was a 74-gun third rate...
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HMS Renown was a small two-decker 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She belonged to the Portland class, designed in 1766 by John Williams, the...
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HMS Roebuck was a fifth-rate ship of the Royal Navy which served in the American and French Revolutionary Wars. Designed in 1769 by Sir Thomas Slade to...
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Commander-in-Chief, The Nore from 1774 to 1775. Mackenzie became commanding officer of the frigate HMS Amazon in July 1745 and then of the frigate HMS Tavistock in August...
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the bomb vessel HMS Thunder. He became a post-captain on 10 January 1771 and was appointed to command the 30-gun fifth-rate HMS Renown (1747). He moved...
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Adams. Singling out Hancock and Adams in this manner only added to their renown among Patriots. With the war underway, Hancock made his way to the Continental...
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1744 at Brest) – captured by British Navy 27 September 1747, becoming HMS Renown. Amphitrite class (30-gun design of 1744 by Venard, with 26 × 8-pounder...
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(1770) – sold 1817 Bristol 50 (1775) – broken up 1810 Renown 50 (1774) – broken up 1794 Isis 50 (1774) – broken up 1810 Leopard 50 (1790) – wrecked 1814...
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lieutenant of the 50-gun ship HMS Renown, with Captain George Dawson. After taking part in the Siege of Charleston in April 1780, Renown returned to England; for...
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Les Officiers généraux de la marine royale (1715-1774) [General Officers of the Royal Navy (1715-1774)] (in French). Paris France: Librairie de l'Inde...
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