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    HMS Seahorse was a 24-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1748. She is perhaps most famous as the ship on which a young Horatio Nelson...
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  • wrecked in 1711. HMS Seahorse (1712) was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1712, rebuilt in 1727 and sold in 1748. HMS Seahorse (1748) was a 24-gun sixth...
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  • HMS Seahorse was a member of the Gibraltar Group of 24-gun sixth rates. After commissioning she spent her career in Home waters and North America on trade...
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    armed as the ships above HMS Boston 1748 – broken up 1752 HMS Seahorse 24-gun sixth rate, designed by Jacob Acworth, 1748, armed with two nine-pounder...
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  • service as HMS Flora. The next day a French frigate approached Unicorn, but then sailed away. The day after that Unicorn came upon Seahorse engaging the...
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    HMS Coventry was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1757 and in active service as a privateer hunter during the Seven Years' War...
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    frigate 'Boreas' (1757)". threedecks.org. "British Sixth Rate frigate 'Seahorse' (1748)". threedecks.org. "British Fifth Rate frigate 'Arethusa' (1759)"....
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    Jacob Ackworth (category 1748 deaths)
    frigate HMS Seahorse designed 1748. Ackworth was knighted in 1722 by King George I. Non-naval works as Surveyor included the design of Putney Bridge. HMS Sorlings...
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    appointment as captain of HMS Yarmouth, the guardship at Chatham. Shortly afterwards he was moved to the much smaller 20-gun HMS Seahorse, A difficulty arose...
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    Nelson served as an able seaman aboard the Seahorse, and Peter Heywood served as an able seaman aboard HMS Bounty. After 1795, blue coat with epaulettes...
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