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HMS Ocean was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1761 at Chatham. Ocean was commissioned for service in April...

before it would be replaced by a new-build. HMS Ocean (1761), was a 90-gun ship of the line built in 1761. HMS Ocean (1805), was a 98-gun ship of the line launched...

1761. HMS Cornwall (1761) was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1761. She was damaged in action in 1780, and subsequently burnt as unserviceable. HMS Cornwall...

Thomas Slade. HMS Sandwich Builder: Chatham Dockyard Ordered: 22 November 1755 Launched: 14 April 1759 Fate: Broken up, 1810 HMS Ocean Builder: Chatham...

ISBN 0-8135-0433-3 Then and Now: The HMS Challenger Expedition and the 'Mountains in the Sea' Expedition, Ocean Explorer website (NOAA), accessed 2 January...

Admiral of the Blue Edward Boscawen, PC (19 August 1711 – 10 January 1761) was a British admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for the borough...

reinforce Aché's Indian Ocean squadron. On 29 April 1758, she took part in the Battle of Cuddalore, engaging HMS Yarmouth and HMS Cumberland. At the battle...

The action of 17 July 1761 was a naval engagement fought off the Spanish port of Cádiz between a British Royal Navy squadron and a smaller French Navy...

why the sentence should not be carried out. In March 1761, Keppel transferred to the third-rate HMS Valiant and was put in command of a squadron to reduce...

overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook...

the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship HMS Seahorse. The novel The Watering Place of Good...

March 1761, while still commanding the Vengeance, he captured the 44-gun French privateer Entreprenant by Land's End. He later took command of HMS Flora...

post-captain of HMS Hinchinbrook, a small frigate. Nelson had been the leader of a failed expedition to cross Central America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific...

in 1761. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 4 February 1758. In July 1758 he was given captaincy and command of the 24-gun HMS Queenborough...

on the 50-gun fourth rate HMS Oxford, but when she was broken up in 1758 he transferred to the 64-gun ship of the line HMS Yarmouth. In that ship he sailed...

Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand, Comte de Linois (27 January 1761 – 2 December 1848) was a French admiral who served in the French Navy during the reign...

the French 4-gun privateer Le Vautour on 9 January 1761 while in company with the 28-gun frigate HMS Aquilon. Beginning a run of prizetaking, Swallow then...

the same county. George Pocock entered the navy in 1718, serving aboard HMS Superb under the patronage of his maternal uncle, Captain Streynsham Master...

the presence of an admiral on board. This ship was HMS Blenheim, a ship of the line built in 1761 as a 90-gun second rate but recently cut down to 74...

1778, damaging HMS Lark and outrunning another British ship during the escape. Tacking for France, the Providence crossed the Atlantic Ocean unmolested,...