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HMS Spy was a Bonetta-class sloop launched at Rotherhithe in 1756 for the Royal Navy. The Navy sold her in 1773. From 1776, or perhaps earlier she was...

the Royal Navy have been named HMS Spy: HMS Spy (1756) was a Bonetta-class sloop launched at Rotherhithe in 1756. HMS Spy (1804) was launched at Topsham...

vessels have been named Spy: After the Royal Navy sold HMS Spy (1756) in 1773, between 1773 and 1780 she became the transport Spy. Aggie (1777 ship) was...

local trader; she was last listed in 1794. After the Royal Navy sold HMS Spy (1756) in 1773, she was named Tartar between 1783 and 1787. Tartar (1778 ship)...

Sea Company and the East India Company, the second son of Abel Smith (d. 1756), the Nottingham banker who founded a banking dynasty and whose business...

Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...

few tables and benches in a corner of the front room. Two years later, in 1756, court records indicate that the "Supervisors for the County of Orange [met]...

50-gun fourth-rate HMS Chatham under Rear Admiral Parry, in 1772, in the Leeward Islands. Gambier was placed on the sloop HMS Spy and was then posted...

flagship at the Battle of Minorca on 20 May 1756. Phillip moved on 1 August 1757, with Everitt, to the 90-gun HMS Union, which took part in the Raid on St...

Liverpool in 1777. She traded locally until 1781 when her owners renamed her Spy and placed her in the slave trade. The French Navy captured her in 1782 in...

Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...

warships. There were several near-shore actions involving the drop of German spies, or the attempted pickup of escaping prisoners of war. Despite the 23 ships...

would have granted him a royal commission and pressed his case in February 1756 with Braddock's successor as Commander-in-Chief, William Shirley, and again...

was a lieutenant-colonel by 23. The outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756 offered Wolfe fresh opportunities for advancement. His part in the aborted...

fishes". Parasites & Vectors. 9 (1): 426. doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1696-x. ISSN 1756-3305. PMC 4972994. PMID 27488497. Laskow, Sarah (12 January 2016). "All the...

the flagship of the First Sea Lord has nominally been the ship of the line HMS Victory, which used to be Lord Nelson's flagship. The following table lists...

Grenville. He held the offices of Clerk of the Household to the Prince of Wales (1756–1760) and Clerk of the Green Cloth from 1761 to 1762. In 1765 he was also...

Tallmadge, Washington launched the six-man Culper spy ring. The efforts of Washington and the Culper Spy Ring substantially increased the effective allocation...

throws him overboard to his death. Le Chasseur (died 1756) (voiced by Chimwemwe Miller) is a French spy and smuggler operating in New York and the North Atlantic...

to Louisbourg account books, by late 1756, the French had regularly dispensed supplies to 700 Natives. From 1756 to the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, the...