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    HMS Excellent was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich on 27 November 1787. She was the captaincy of John Gell...
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  • of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Excellent: HMS Excellent (1787) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1787. She was converted into a 58-gun fourth...
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    HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1787 at Limehouse. She served during the French revolutionary...
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    website: history of HMS Excellent". "RN website: history of HMS Temeraire". "RN Website: HMS Collingwood". "RN website: history of HMS Sultan". Historic...
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    Saturn of 1786 (razeed 1813) HMS Elephant of 1786 (razeed 1817-18) HMS Excellent of 1787 (began razee 1825) Another eleven more-recent 74s were razeed in...
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    13 May 1787. The journey began with fine weather, and thus the convicts were allowed on deck. The Fleet was accompanied by the armed frigate HMS Hyaena...
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    politician of the island. There she met Horatio Nelson, and married him in 1787. The couple moved to England, and Fanny established a household and cared...
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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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    19th centuries. His naval career began when he joined HMS Vestal as a captain's servant in 1787. In Vestal he made an aborted journey to China before...
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  • seaman aboard the 74-gun battleship HMS Goliath. On 25 March 1787 Hibbs was transferred to the 10-gun HMS Sirius. (HMS Sirius was armed with six carronades...
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    Journals of the First Fleet (category 1787 documents)
    him joining the British Navy in 1782. He was selected for duty on HMS Sirius in 1787. His journal was written as a memoir in 1840, after his retirement...
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    serving as a midshipman in HMS Victory. He was serving as master of HMS Flora in the West Indies in 1785. In April 1787 he was appointed master of Supply...
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    Grand Portage, other posts, and Montreal. When Benjamin died unexpectedly in 1787, as Joseph knew very little at that stage of the management side of the business...
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    touring Quebec in 1787, he was, the next year, given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda and promoted to rear-admiral while commanding HMS Valiant in 1790...
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    1868 HMS Vanguard Deptford Dockyard 9 December 1779 6 March 1787 Broken up, 1821 HMS Excellent Graham, Harwich 9 August 1781 27 November 1787 Broken...
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    29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the land mass of Australia, after his extensive navigation of...
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    Admiral Horatio Nelson, who lived in the Royal Navy Dockyard from 1784 through 1787. Today, it is part of Nelson's Dockyard National Park and the Antigua Naval...
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    royal yacht until 1787. In 1787 he was briefly given command of HMS Robust before hoisting his broad pennant as commodore in the 64-gun HMS Crown in October...
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    HMS Minorca. In 1779, Seymour was promoted once more, making post captain in HMS Porcupine and serving in command of HMS Diana, HMS Ambuscade and HMS...
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    Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted the current Constitution of the United States. Washington...
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