Launched on 21 May 1797, GB No. 21 was renamed HMS Defender on 7 August the same year. She was a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig built for the British Royal...
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the name HMS Defender: HMS Defender (1797), a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and on the Navy List until 1802. HMS Defender (1804), a...
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Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7. Media related to HMS Endymion (ship, 1797) at Wikimedia Commons HMS Endymion vs. USS President by the British contemporary...
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HMS Cracker was an Acute-class gunbrig, launched in 1797. She was sold in 1802. Lieutenant Thomas Aitkinson commissioned Cracker in May 1797. On 28 August...
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HMS Duncan is the sixth and last of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy and launched in 2010. Duncan is named...
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HMS Centaur was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 March 1797 at Woolwich. She served as Sir Samuel Hood's flagship in the Leeward Islands...
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HMS Cruizer (often Cruiser) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Stephen Teague of Ipswich and launched in 1797. She was the first ship...
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three-decker. She was considerably larger than her British contemporary HMS Victory and somewhat bigger than the French Bretagne. There is no complete...
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performed diplomatic duties with the Italian states. In 1797, he distinguished himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly...
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HMS Snake was a British Royal Navy ship launched in 1797 as the only member of her class of brig-sloops. She captured or destroyed two French privateers...
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