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	HMS Agamemnon (1781) - P.R.Dobson.com
		HMS Agamemnon, a sixty-four gun, third-rate ship-of-the-line-of-battle, was constructed at Buckler's Hard, on the Beulieu river, Hampshire, and launched in 1781.
		HMS Agamemnon was one of the most famous ships in the Royal Navy, with battle honours including The Saints, Copenhagen, the Battle of Trafalgar, and the Battle of Santo Domingo.
		HMS Agamemnon was the first ship-of-the-line Nelson commanded, and also the first in which he raised his broad pennant as Commodore.
	www.prdobson.com /project/hms-agamemnon-1781 (302 words)

	Africa
		HMS Africa was one of the smallest class of two deckers in the British Navy, carrying fewer and lighter guns than the larger ships.
		In 1783 she served with the British squadron in the Indian Ocean, and in 1793 was stationed in the West Indies and the Channel.
		The Africa suffered 62 casualties and her masts and rigging were badly damaged.
	www.treeforall.org.uk /trafalgar/TrafalgarWoods/Otherwoods/Africa (654 words)

	Pitcairn Islands Study Center
		HMS BERWICK A 74-gun ship commanded by Captain John Fergusson; the first ship in which Bligh served as a commissioned officer (fifth lieutenant) from September 5, 1781, to the end of December the same year.
		HMS PROVIDENCE The Providence was a sixth-rate frigate of 420 tons burden, with three decks, armed with twelve carriage guns and fourteen swivels, and carrying a crew of 134 on Bligh’s second breadfruit expedition, August 3, 1791, to August 7, 1793.
		HMS RANGER The ship in which Bligh served as a midshipman (at first he was officially entered as an able-bodied seaman) from September 2, 1774, to March 17, 1776.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/bounty/encyclopedia.shtml (6431 words)

	HMS BOUNTY MISSION TO TAHITI FOR BREADFRUIT CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH AND FLETCHER CHRISTIAN MUTINY AND SETTLING ON ...
		HMS Bounty sailed from Spithead, England on December 23, 1787 with Captain William Bligh and a crew of 45 men bound for Tahiti.
		William Bligh, the Captain of the expedition, was born September 9, 1754.
		William Bligh was promoted to Captain, given command of HMS Providence and with the escort vessel Assistant, was dispatched to Tahiti for another breadfruit mission.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/hms_bounty.htm (3221 words)

	HMS Africa (1781) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Africa was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
		Africa was present at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 under the command of Captain Henry Digby.
		She was part of the British squadron commanded by Sir Philip Broke at the celebrated battle between HMS Guerriere and USS Constitution which took place on August 12, 1812.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Africa_(1781) (267 words)

	Minot State University - Undergraduate Catalog
		Study of the natural regions of Africa with emphasis on the climate, physical and human resources, trade, culture and their effects upon world affairs.
		Prerequisite: HIST 101 or 102 or 103 or 104 or 212 or consent of instructor.
		South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with fascinating historical developments.
	www.misu.nodak.edu /catalog_u/cd_02.shtml (11126 words)

	USS Arkansas (BB-33)
		Resuming her duty with the fleet soon thereafter, she operated from Maine to the Caribbean Sea; on 5 September 1927, she was present at ceremonies unveiling a memorial tablet honoring the French soldiers and sailors who died during the campaign at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781.
		Arkansas' cutter defeated the cutter from the British light cruiser HMS Dragon[?] for the Battenberg Cup[?], and the City of Newport Cup[?].
		With the Allied invasion of North Africa, American convoys were routed to Casablanca to support the operations.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Arkansas_(BB-33).html (3880 words)

	History
		The launch was considered less suited to the open sea but in the launch of HMS Bounty, Captain William Bligh sailed 3,600 miles in forty-one days with eighteen men.
		By 1781, pinnaces were only being issued to the British navy in lengths of 26, 28, and 30 feet.
		By 1781 all ships of 20 guns or more were to carry an 18-foot cutter which at that point became called a jolly boat.
	www.flyinglab.com /pirates/shipguide/Longboat/History.htm (2167 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 5; Ch. 6. "The Years Leading Up To The War Of 1812."
		Also the HMS Bellona21 [74 guns], Captain [John Erskine] Douglas and HMS Indian [18 guns], Captain Austen came in from the Chesapeake.
		July 1st: HMS Swiftsure, Milan, Ferret40, Martin [18 guns] and Harpy [18 guns] sail, for Portugal with the 7th Regiment on board, also the Ariel, a transport for England.
		October 2nd: HMS Regulus [44-gun, though apparently she came in, en flûte] and HMS Diadem [14-gun, also, en flûte] come in from Portsmouth with the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Regiment on board.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part5/Ch06.htm (3705 words)

	Royal Navy Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was also vital in guarding the sea lanes that enabled Britain to fight in remote parts of the world such as North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Far East.
		Naval supremacy was vital to the amphibious operations carried out, such as the invasions of West Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy.
		HMS (acronym) = Her (or His) Majesty's Ship
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_navy.html (626 words)

	Convoy - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The power of a battleship in protecting a convoy was also dramatically illustrated when the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau came upon an eastbound British convoy of 41 ships, HX 106 in the North Atlantic on February 8th, 1941.
		When they noticed the presence in the escort of the old battleship, HMS Ramillies, they fled the scene, rather than risk damage from her 15" guns.
		The enormous number of vessels involved and the frequency of engagements meant that statistical techniques could be applied to evaluate tactics: an early use of operational research in war.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Convoy (1482 words)

	Tall-Ships Gallery of Handcrafted Model Ships Gallery Shop
		On May 4, 1781 a reception of the American Congress was held on board during which there was official announcement of the victory of Chesapeake of March 16, 1781.
		In 1787 the HMS Bounty was purchased by the Admiralty and recommissioned to sail halfway around the world to Tahiti to collect sapling breadfuit trees and transport them to the West Indies.
		The mutineers in the HMS Bounty then set off for Tahiti, where they put the rest of the sailors loyal to Bligh ashore, picked up their Tahitian wives, girlfriends and several Tahitian men, and set off to hide forever from the long arm of the British law.
	www.chrisdixonstudios.com /hms-modelships/hms-Tall-Ships.htm (4373 words)

	Digby's Trafalgar
		HMS Africa was the name of the ship Captain Henry Digby commanded at Trafalgar.
		HMS Africa was now heading to pass along the enemy van (at right angles to the two British columns) when he received a signal from Nelson to rejoin the rest of the fleet, “making all possible sail”.
		The Africa engaged the headmost ship of the enemies van, a Spanish 2 decker (Neptuno, 80 guns) bearing the flag of an Admiral and engaged the whole of the enemies van line.
	www.bromley-bsac.ukdiver.com /trafalgar.htm (1667 words)

	Wikinfo \| Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In that time, the Royal Navy suffered only one major defeat, the Battle of the Chesapeake against France in 1781, and was able to defeat all challengers, as at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 where a combined Spanish and French fleet was decisivly beaten.
		It was also vital in guarding the sea lanes that enabled UK forces to fight in remote parts of the world such as North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Far East.
		HMS Conqueror- the nuclear attack submarine which was responsible for the infamous sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Royal_Navy (1839 words)

	Timeline South Africa
		1816 Saartjie Baartman (~27), taken from S. Africa in 1810, fell sick and died penniless and friendless in France after being exhibited as the "Hottentot Venus." Her body was dissected, her brain and genitals were bottled, and her skeleton was wired and exhibited in the Musee de l’Homme in Paris.
		In South Africa police chief Johan van der Merwe was instructed to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, called Khotso House, for harboring anti-apartheid groups.
		Carel Boshoff, son-in-law of the late PM Hendrik Verwoerd, founded the Orania enclave in the desert of South Africa with a ban on using fl laborers for menial tasks.
	timelines.ws /countries/SOUTHAFRICA.HTML (14895 words)

	FORTNIGHTLY SUMMARY OF CURRENT NATIONAL SITUATIONS December 1, 1941
		France's concern over the situation in Africa is manifested by the sudden departure from Vichy of Admiral Platon (Minister of Colonies), General Bergeret (Air Secretary) and Admiral Auphan (Chief of Naval General Staff) to inspect the defenses of North and West Africa.
		HMS ARK ROYAL was attacked and sunk by two or more German submarines just east of Gibraltar on November 13, 1941.
		H.M.S. encountered and sank a converted German commerce raider on November 22 in the South Atlantic.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/timeline/411201afns.html (4281 words)

	Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The also used the controversial practice of impressment where seamen were effectively kidnapped to on HM ships.
		It was also vital in guarding sea lanes that enabled Britain to fight remote parts of the world such as Africa the Mediterranean and the Far East.
		HMS Ark Royal - flagship of English Fleet against Spanish Armada.
	www.freeglossary.com /Royal_Navy (1172 words)

	Royal_Navy - Thagodz Wiki
		He also was the main force behind the development of the HMS Dreadnought, the first all big gun ship and possibly one of the most influential ships in naval history.
		By the end of the war however, it was clear that aircraft carriers were the new dominant weapon of naval warfare, and that Britain's former naval superiority in terms of battleships had been rendered null.
		HMS Conqueror is the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
	www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=Royal_Navy (6233 words)

	Bermuda's Royal Navy base at Ireland Island began in 1815
		She was the small warship HMS Pickle of the Royal Navy.
		HMS Pickle was the fastest and one of the hardiest ships in the Royal Navy.
		In 1808, three years after she achieved her claim to fame at the Battle of Trafalgar, the Bermuda-built cedar schooner HMS Pickle struck a shoal when entering the Spanish port of Cadiz and was lost.
	www.bermuda-online.org /rnd.htm (4256 words)

	URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996
		The HMS Beagle was classified as a sloop-brig of the Royal Navy and though she normally carried ten guns, four were removed (in order to carry more stores) for their voyage.
		HMS Beagle departed the Galápagos and headed across the Pacific Ocean to Australia, then across the Indian Ocean, and back to England, and the "mixed-up finches" were handed over to John Gould, an ornithologist.
		HMS Beagle landed in England on the 2nd of October 1836 and Darwin went to Shrewsbury on the 4th.
	www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html (17104 words)

	Bickerton
		Early in 1744, Bickerton went to the 80-gun ship-of-the-line HMS Cornwall, then the flagship of Vice Admiral Davers, who was on his way to take command in the West Indies and who had been Bickerton’s first commanding officer.
		Next, he commanded HMS Fortitude in the Channel in 1780 and participated in the second relief of Gibraltar in April 1781.
		On 6 May 1944, Bickerton teamed with sisterships HMS Aylmer (K. 463) and HMS Bligh (K. 467), and planes from the escort carrier HMS Vindex, in destroying U 765, and she scored a solo “kill” seven weeks later when she sank U 269 on 25 June.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/b6/bickerton-i.htm (497 words)

	HMS Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Plymouth Dec 6 1811 Reported to have been dismasted in a gale on the coast of America, but had been refitted and sailed to Bermuda.
		Plymouth 29 Dec 1813 The officers and some of the crews of the late Guerriere, and Barbadoes frigates, were taken to Ireland in the Africa, and have been brought on here in the Leonidos frigate.
		The Africa is understood to have returned to the Coast of America with another convoy.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /18-1900/A/00087.html (151 words)

	British Army in Bermuda from 1776 to 1977
		They arrived from Halifax on HMS Leopard in 1808 (and were present at the famous incident with the USS Chesapeake, later).
		Colonel Arnold devised the early massive building and engineering program for HM Dockyard, that led to Bermuda being referred to later as the "Gibraltar of the West." His accomplishments, skills and obvious leadership qualities in Bermuda were such that he was marked for prompt promotion and increased military responsibilities.
		The 6th (Militia) Battalion also served in South Africa but from the end of December 1901 and were mainly involved in blockhouse duty in Cape Colony.
	www.bermuda-online.org /britarmy.htm (5569 words)

	Catalogue 8
		On Portugal’s exploration of Africa to Dias’s voyage to the Cape.
		The map is centered on northern Madagascar and includes the east coast of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarenes, the Seychelles and Comoros.
		HMS “Rifleman” and “Nassau” bombarding the Port of Mombaza, Zanzibar, from The Graphic (March 3, 1875).
	www.indianoceanbooks.com /catalogues/cat8.htm (4373 words)

	Colonial Americans: Discovery of Estuarine Environments (DOEE)
		Europeans, mostly from England, and slaves from Africa were the two groups immigrating to the lands near Narragansett Bay in the 1600s.
		An armed British vessel, HMS Gaspee was on patrol in the Narragansett Bay to catch those ships that were smuggling tea, but, due to the many coves and inlets of the Bay, many vessels were able to avoid the HMS Gaspee.
		Slaves that were brought over from Africa through the triangular trade were used on the farm plantations of South County.
	omp.gso.uri.edu /doee/history/colonial/colonial.htm (679 words)

	James O'Hara
		From 1781 to 1783 he served as assistant quartermaster for General Nathaniel Greene.
		During almost the next 2 months James O'Hara shuttled troops from North Africa to Sicily; then she prepared to take part in the invasion of Italy.
		Assigned to Rear Admiral J. Hall's Southern Attack Force, she departed Oran 5 September and approached the Gulf of Salerno late 8 September as the Allies announced the armistice with Italy.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/j2/james_ohara.htm (1411 words)

	[No title]
		At the time of her loss, she was en route from Durban, South Africa to Takoradi, on the Gold Coast of West Africa, with 1,346 passengers.
		The survivors were rescued by HMS Boreas, Crocus & Petunia, which arrived from Freetown, Sierra Leone, on the evening of the 15th.
		She was the second boat to be fitted with the Schnorkel device & had sent a long signal reporting its performance that was intercepted & which led to the boat's destruction.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/march/13Mar.txt (3224 words)

	Alfred (black Prince) Sailing Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		That British frigate-which was carrying dispatches telling of the British withdrawal-put up a fierce and skillful fight which enabled her to escape from her substantially more powerful American opponents.
		She was purchased and taken into the Royal Navy as H.M. armed ship ALFRED (20 guns) and was sold in 1782.
		Later that year of 1777, he commanded the 32 gun RALEIGH with orders to break the British blockade of the coast; on being intercepted by two British frigates off Boston, he ran the RALEIGH onto the rocks to avoid her capture.
	www.schoonerman.com /alfred.htm (1976 words)

	THE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL HMS BOUNTY
		The mutineers took HMS Bounty back to Tahiti, and, with 6 Polynesian men and 12 women, took the ship to the isolated site at Pitcairn Island.
		Also in 1781 he married Elizabeth Betham and was appointed as Master of HMS Cambridge.
		In 1787, while he was still away, he was appointed to command HMS Bounty for the voyage to Tahiti and the West Indies.
	www.lareau.org /sagaintro.htm (3731 words)

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