HMS Royal George was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1827 at Chatham Dockyard. In 1853 she was fitted...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal George after various members of the House of Hanover. A ninth was renamed before being launched: HMS Royal George...
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first rate. She was renamed HMS Royal George (1827) in 1822, before being launched in 1827. Royal George was sold in 1875. HMS Neptune (1832) was a 120-gun...
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HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of the...
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the Royal Navigational School and joined the Royal Navy in March 1781 as a Captain's servant in the sixth-rate HMS Resource. He joined the sloop HMS Termagant...
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HMS Black Joke was probably built in Baltimore in 1824, becoming the Brazilian slave ship Henriquetta. The Royal Navy captured her in September 1827,...
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Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Rodney, of which at least the last five were named after the Georgian Admiral George, Lord Rodney. A seventh...
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Admiral Sir George Willes Watson, KCB (5 April 1827 – 26 April 1897) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North America and West...
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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales. HMS Prince of Wales (1765)...
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the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cockburn for Admiral Sir George Cockburn: HMS Cockburn (1822) was the former steam vessel Braganza that the Royal Navy...
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