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    HMS Somerset was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment,...
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  • rate of 1731 HMS Somerset (1748), a third rate of 1748 HMS Somerset (F82), a Type 23 frigate launched in 1994 Ships named Somerset have earned the following...
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  • Navy HMS Somerset (1748), a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy HMS Somerset (F82), launched in 1994 USS Somerset (1862), a side wheel...
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    HMS Vanguard was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 April 1748. She was built by Philemon Ewer at his East Cowes yard...
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    fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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    between the two officers on Blackheath. He was appointed to command HMS Somerset in January 1753. Powlett's rapid rise to a captaincy and his willingness...
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    HMS Somerset on 22 February 1734, the Somerset then stationed as guard ship in the Medway. He served aboard her until April 1738, then moving to HMS Grafton...
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  • HMS Greenwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built during the War of the Austrian Succession, and went on to see...
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    highlight of their careers. Charles was forcibly deported from France after the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and rapidly descended into alcoholism, while Cumberland...
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    Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, in the third-rate HMS Cornwall in October 1748. He was given command of the fifth-rate HMS Glory off the coast of West Africa in March...
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