renamed her Adventure. At the time Bennett was the most important ship-owner in the Fishery and had some 17 vessels out whale hunting. Adventure first appeared...
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been named Adventure: Adventure Galley, an English ship captained by William Kidd, the notorious privateer turned pirate Adventure (1792 ship) was built...
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Adventure was launched at Liverpool in 1802. She made three voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. A French privateer captured...
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Majestic was launched at Whitby in 1804. She served the British government as a transport until she burned at Barbados on 20 October 1808, due to an act...
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in 1804. She was a transport and later sailed between Britain and Quebec. Her crew abandoned her at sea in 1821. Although she was launched in 1804, Agincourt...
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in 1810. HMS Aigle captured the French ship Alsace in 1803. Active is first listed in Lloyd's Register in 1804, and in the Register of Shipping in 1805...
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The Adventure-class ship was a class of eight 44-gun sailing two-decker warships of the Royal Navy, classed as a fifth rate like a frigate, but carrying...
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HMS Electra (1808) (redirect from French ship Espiègle (1804))
Ethéart, Saint-Malo, as the French Curieux-class brig Espiègle and launched in 1804. She was armed in 1807 at Saint Servan. The British frigate Sybille captured...
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The 1804 dollar or Bowed Liberty Dollar was a dollar coin struck by the United States Mint, of which fifteen specimens are currently known to exist. Though...
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Adventure was a vessel built in France that the British captured c.1799. New owners immediately sailed her as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved...
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