HMS Severn was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1695. On 13 May 1734, orders were issued for Severn...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Severn after the River Severn: The first HMS Severn (1695) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1695, rebuilt in 1739, captured...
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Hastings (i) 1695 HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle...
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Lake Simcoe (category Trent–Severn Waterway)
on Lake Ontario. The Severn River, its outlet stream, was once called 'Rivière de Toronto' which flows into Georgian Bay's Severn Sound, then called the...
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throughout from a junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal to the River Severn at Stourport. Engineered by James Brindley, this is the first British trunk...
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recaptured 1709 Severn (1695) – broken up 1734 for rebuild Burlington (1695) – broken up 1733 Ordered 1694 (130 ft group) Harwich (1695) – wrecked 1700...
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commissioned on 20 December 1695 under the command of Captain Richard Haddock. He held command until 1700. In concert with HMS Weymouth she helped take the...
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guns in 1690 and reclassed as 3rd Rank; captured by the British in 1695, becoming HMS Trident. Maure 54 guns (designed and built by Blaise Pangalo, launched...
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the Battle of the Severn, the first naval colonial battle ever fought in North America, was fought in Anne Arundel County on the Severn River between Puritan...
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Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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