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HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Southampton according to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals...

the Kentish Knock. HMS Colchester (1746) was a 50-gun fourth-rate frigate launched in 1746 and broken up in 1773. HMS Colchester (1918) was built for...

HMS Severn (sometimes spelt "Severne") was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sir Henry Johnson's Blackwall Yard on...

1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMS Triton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise 1746 HMS Siren...

four years of inactivity, Clinton was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Colchester in the Mediterranean Sea in 1726 and saw action escorting merchant shipping...

commander did not begin auspiciously. Given command of the newly built HMS Colchester in 1744, he was sailing the ship under the guidance of a pilot out of...

Harrison, and two years later, on 7 June 1746, was promoted to his first command, that of the 14-gun sloop HMS Viper, which was nearing completion at Poole...

Ireland HMS Nottingham severely damaged Le Mars in an attack and took her as a prize in October 1746. She was added to the British Navy as HMS Mars (during...

the line HMS Ramillies, serving in the Downs. On 7 October of the same year he moved from Ramillies to the 50-gun fourth rate HMS Colchester, where he...

HMS Swallow was a 10-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy that prior to her commissioning was briefly known as HMS Galgo. Launched in 1744, the ship...

1706 HMS Colchester 54-gun ship of the line launched at Deptford in 1707 HMS Portsmouth 42-gun ship of the line launched at Deptford in 1707 HMS Resolution...

Ruby 50 (1745) – broken up 1765 Colchester 50 (1746) – broken up 1773 Lichfield 50 (1746) – wrecked 1758 Panther 50 (1746) – broken up 1756 Bristol class...

in Harwich in 1746 HMS Severn a 50-gun ship of the line launched at King's Yard in Harwich in 1747 as a sister ship to HMS Lichfield HMS Seahorse a 24-gun...

Suffolk, a collaborative venture involving the University of Essex in Colchester, the University of East Anglia in Norwich, various further education colleges...

warships at Harwich Dockyard, this time as a private contractor; one of these, HMS Harwich, was considered by Pepys to be one of the finest vessels in the Navy...

Launched Swallow 1721 Designed London 1721 Launched London 1721 Launched Colchester 1721 Designed Hawke 1721 Launched Hawke 1722 Launched Plymouth 1723 Launched...

lost when the 4th rate HMS Colchester, ( Royal Navy) was wrecked in Whitesand Bay. 21 October – third-rate ship of the line HMS Devonshire ( Royal Navy)...

of Kimberley and Kuruman Anthony Hamilton (1739–1812), Archdeacon of Colchester Bernard Heywood (1871–1960), Bishop of Ely Nugent Hicks (1872–1942), Bishop...

coins out of circulation, becomes law. January 27 – In England, the ship HMS Royal Sovereign (formerly Sovereign of the Seas) catches fire and burns at...

of piracy although he is later reprieved. January 27 The crew of the ship HMS Welfare, commanded by John Strong, become the first European people to land...