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    HMS Jersey was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Plymouth...
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    York City. Christopher Vail, of Southold, who was aboard one such prison ship, HMS Jersey in 1781, later wrote: When a man died he was carried up on the...
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    monstrous Jersey and other British prison ships in New York Harbor Britain's Prison Ships, 1776–1783 Ships of the Old Navy: A history of the sailing ships of...
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    died on the ships are interred in a crypt beneath its base. The ships included HMS Jersey, Scorpion, Hope, Falmouth, Stromboli, Hunter, and others. Their...
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    such as dysentery were rife among prisoners. The most infamous prison ship was HMS Jersey, which was designed to hold a complement of 400 crewmen but held...
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    During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores...
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    1693–1697 HMS Maidstone 1693 HMS Jersey 1694 HMS Lizard (i) 1694 HMS Newport 1694 HMS Falcon 1694 HMS Queenborough 1694 HMS Swan 1694 HMS Drake 1694 HMS Solebay...
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  • Nathaniel Fanning (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    while serving aboard an American privateer and held prisoner on the prison hulk HMS Jersey, where Gilbert died. Fanning was also the brother of explorer Edmund...
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  • lordship of Birmingham in England HMS Birmingham (1913), a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and sold in 1931 HMS Birmingham (C19), a cruiser launched...
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  • nuclear-powered nuclear-armed unmanned underwater vehicle Poseidon (ship name) HMS Poseidon (P99), a Royal Navy Parthian-class submarine launched in 1929...
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    Amparo Also HMS Carrick and Carrick Retroactively The disposable ship Columbus (108 m) was built in Canada in 1824, and flew the British red ensign. Trimble...
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    ships when British forces landed on the shores of San Carlos Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent...
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    1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. The Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey are British Crown dependencies in the English Channel, near the coast...
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    Joshua Barney (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    was put in command of the Pennsylvania ship Hyder Ally, in which he captured the more heavily armed warship HMS General Monk in the Battle of Delaware...
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    List of shipwrecks in the Channel Islands (category History of Jersey)
    Doug-jersey.freeservers.com. Retrieved 6 November 2021. "Ship News". Hull Packet. No. 696. 18 November 1800. "The wreck of HMS Havick 1800". Doug-jersey.freeservers...
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    Rivoli fitted with seacamels. Mont Saint-Bernard fitted with Ship Camels Calcutta 60 (British HMS Calcutta 56, built 1787–88 at Blackwall as mercantile Warley...
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    Richard Dale (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    promoted Dale to Master's Mate. Unfortunately for Dale, the ship was captured by the British frigate HMS Pearl. Select officers from Lexington were taken onto...
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  • of British commanders. The then pregnant 355 was arrested in 1780 when Benedict Arnold defected to the Loyalists. She was imprisoned on HMS Jersey, a...
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    States on HMS King George V. He also furnished information to Germany concerning the movement of ships carrying materials and supplies to Britain. Having...
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  • him later imprisoned on the prison ship HMS Jersey (1736).: 582  Other works only mention his imprisonment on the prison ship,: 124  and previously mentioned...
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