HMS Niger was a 32-gun Niger-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1759. In 1766, under the command of Sir Thomas Adams, Niger...
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borne the name HMS Niger after the Niger River, whilst another was planned. HMS Niger (1759) was a 33-gun fifth rate launched in 1759, reduced to sixth...
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Navy were named Negro HMS Negro (1813), ex-Niger (1759), a Niger-class frigate HMS Negro (1915), an Admiralty M-class destroyer HMS Negro (1939) (FY 717)...
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West Indies in 1769 Niger class 32-gun fifth rates 1759–64; Thomas Slade design, "very similar" to the Alarm class above HMS Niger 1759 – converted to troopship...
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HMS Niger was originally slated to be built as a Sampson designed sloop; however, she was ordered as a First-Class sloop with screw propulsion on 20 February...
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1759, he joined the 70-gun HMS Monmouth as a cadet under his uncle Captain Augustus Hervey during Hervey's 21-week watch on the French fleet in 1759....
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HMS Niger, which was serving in the Mediterranean, as a captain's servant. His proper service in the navy probably began in 1772, when he joined HMS Panther...
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Completed: 18 January 1759 at Deptford Dockyard. Fate: Renamed Guernsey on 7 May 1800. Taken to pieces at Sheerness Dockyard in April 1801. Niger Ordered: 19 September...
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did not remain long on the Dover, but was soon removed into the frigate HMS Niger. In this vessel he was employed in 1760 as a cruiser, and distinguished...
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through the summer of 1759, and was present at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November in March 1760 he accompanied Denis to HMS Bellona, in which he...
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