HMS St George was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 October 1785 at Portsmouth. In 1793 she captured one of the richest...
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George (1785) was a 98-gun second rate, launched in 1785 and wrecked in 1811. HMS St George was originally HMS Britannia of 1762, renamed HMS Princess...
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been named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax: HMS Ajax (1767) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1767 and sold in 1785. HMS Ajax (1798)...
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HMS Haughty (1797), HMS Neptune (1797), HMS Queen Charlotte (1790) and HMS St George (1785) Vlieter Incident was a mutiny of a squadron of the fleet of the...
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HMS Romulus was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate of the Flora class, built for the Royal Navy and launched in September 1785. At the outbreak of the French...
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HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe. On 4 April 1796, Ramilies ran down and...
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HMS Regulus was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1785. Not commissioned until 1793 for the French Revolutionary Wars...
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commanding HMS St. Albans was part of the capture of l'Elizabeth French frigate, under Vice-Admiral George Murray, Aug, 28, 1796; Hardy commanding HMS Courageux...
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HMS Terpsichore was a 32-gun Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built during the last years of the American War of Independence...
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was midshipman on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar. Westphal was born on 27 March 1785 in Nova Scotia, the son of George Westphal and older...
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