• America. HMS Sapphire (also spelled Saphire, and called Zephyr by the French) was designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich in 1675, at a cost...
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  • and run ashore to avoid capture in 1671. HMS Sapphire (1675) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1675 and scuttled by her captain (Capt. Thomas...
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    command of the fifth-rate HMS Sapphire. He transferred to the fourth-rate HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring...
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    launched September 1674 Sapphire – launched 29 June 1675 Charles Galley – 32 guns, launched 1676, rebuilt 1693, renamed HMS Torrington in 1729 after...
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  • the Flemish Banks near the Scheldt Estuary, North Sea. 11 September — HMS Sapphire, ( Royal Navy): The fifth-rate frigate sank off Bay Bulls, Newfoundland...
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  • details  Ship name  Type  Launched  Ship details  Fate HMS Sapphire 32-gun ship of the line 1675 Harwich, England Cornered in Bay Bulls Harbour by a French...
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    Laurel (1651) Sapphire (1651) Bristol (1653) Ruby Group Ruby (1652) Diamond (1652) Bonaventure 48 – previously named HMS President. Renamed HMS Bonaventure...
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    Navy's new East-Coast dockyard at Sheerness. Nevertheless, between 1673 and 1675 Anthony Deane (now a Commissioner of the Navy) built three more warships...
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    England's Royal Navy scuttles and deliberately sinks its 32-gun battleship HMS Sapphire in Bay Bulls Harbour in Newfoundland, rather than let it be captured...
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  • 1670s (section 1675)
    beheaded in Vienna on April 30, 1671. March 31 – The British warship HMS Sapphire is wrecked beyond repair when her captain, John Pearce, orders the ship...
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