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    HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard during 1677/79. When completed she was placed in Ordinary...
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  • 1671. HMS Eagle (1672) was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1672 and foundered in 1673. HMS Eagle (1679) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1679, rebuilt...
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  • Griffon, a helicopter HMS Griffon, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy InterPlane Griffon, an ultralight aircraft Le Griffon, a 1679 French sailing vessel...
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    HMS Phoenix in April 1679 and returned to HMS Sapphire in May 1679 before transferring to the fifth-rate HMS Nonsuch in July 1680. He returned to HMS...
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    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 (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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  • John Swinton (1621?–1679) was a Scottish politician active during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and during the Interregnum. At the Restoration he was...
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    70 (1679) Burford 70 (1679) Eagle 70 (1679) Expedition 70 (1679) – renamed Prince Frederick 1715, sold 1784 Grafton 70 (1679) Pendennis 70 (1679) – wrecked...
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    George Carteret (category English MPs 1661–1679)
    complained that they found his accounts difficult to follow. From 1661 to 1679, he represented Portsmouth, sponsored by the Admiralty, in the Cavalier Parliament...
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    the ship sailed back to Mackinac with the furs. Le Griffon disappeared in 1679 on the return trip of her maiden voyage. In the spring of 1682, La Salle...
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    significant nesting grounds for a variety of seabirds such as gannets. The golden eagle is something of a national icon. On the high mountain tops, species including...
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