HMS Canopus was an 84-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the Tonnant-class Franklin...
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Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Canopus : The first HMS Canopus (1798) was an 80-gun third-rate French ship of the line launched...
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was broken up in 1884. HMS Albion (1898) was a Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and sold in 1919. HMS Albion (R07) was a Centaur-class...
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Kentish coast. He went on to be commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Canopus, in which he took part in the pursuit of the French Fleet to the West...
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Abu Qir. The ancient cities of Canopus, Heracleion and Menouthis lie submerged beneath the waters of the bay. In 1798 it was the site of the Battle of...
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Navy captured her at the Battle of Tory Island on 12 October 1798 and recommissioned her as HMS Donegal. Hoche took part in the French attempt to land in...
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(1878), "Canopus" , Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 23 Griffith, Francis Llewellyn (1911), "Canopus" , in...
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1797 Completed: March 1798 Fate: Captured 2 August 1798 in the Battle of the Nile, renamed HMS Canopus, broken up October 1887 Winfield & Roberts (2015)...
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May Milazzo Admiral Martin in HMS Canopus (1798), was gathering a fleet at Milazzo. The whole force, including Canopus, Spartiate, Warrior, Cyane, and...
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On 2 October, 5 ships of the line, HMS Queen, Canopus, Spencer, Zealous, Tigre, and the frigate HMS Endymion were dispatched to Gibraltar under Rear-Admiral...
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