HMS Egmont was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1810 at Northfleet. In January 1819, the London Gazette reported...
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have been named HMS Egmont: HMS Egmont (1768), a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1768, and broken up in 1799. HMS Egmont (1776) was a schooner...
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HMS Ganges was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1782 at Rotherhithe. She was the first ship of the Navy to bear the...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
economic sanctions on Argentina. In a meeting on Good Friday, 9 April, at the Egmont Palace, the EEC Political Committee proposed a total import ban from Argentina...
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recapture Nemesis. The ships of the line Egmont, Barfleur, Bombay Castle, and Zealous, along with the frigate HMS Tartar and the cutter Fox, anchored in...
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sovereignty arrived at Port Egmont on 20 December 1832, and reached Port Louis on 2 January 1833. Captain James Onslow, of the brig-sloop HMS Clio, arrived at the...
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HMS Akbar begun at Prince of Wales Island, Malaya and HMS Augusta at Portsmouth - were cancelled in 1809, while another two projected in 1807 - HMS Julius...
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HMS Phaeton was a 38-gun, Minerva-class fifth rate of Britain's Royal Navy. This frigate was most noted for her intrusion into Nagasaki harbour in 1808...
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participants at the siege. On 13 October 1813 HMS Telegraph caused the destruction of the French 16-gun brig Flibustier (1810) in the mouth of the Adour. Flibustier...
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eight ships of the line: HMS Victory, HMS St. George, HMS Dreadnought, HMS Vigo, HMS Cressy, HMS Orion, HMS Hero and HMS Defence, HMS Dictator as well as some...
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