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	Encyclopedia: HMS Ganges (1782) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Ganges was an 74-gun 3rd rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched on March 30, 1782 on the Thames.
		She saw active service from 1782 to 1811, in Europe and the West Indies; she took at least one prize, the French 24-gun corvette Jacobin.
		She was commissioned as a prison ship on December 12th 1811, for holding prisoners of war, transferred to the Board of Transport in 1814, and broken up at Plymouth in 1816.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Ganges-%281782%29 (206 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Copenhagen (1801) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ardent, three of which were sunk in action: Ardent, launched in 1894, was the lead ship of her class of torpedo boat destroyers.
		HMS Defiance was a 3rd rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of 74 guns, built in 1783.
		HMS Defence was a 3rd rate ship of the line of 74 guns, built in 1763 for the Royal Navy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Copenhagen-%281801%29 (1419 words)

	HMS Furious (47) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Furious (47) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Furious (47) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Furious (47).
		HMS Furious was a modified Courageous class "large light cruiser" (an extreme form of battlecruiser) converted into an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy.
		She was designed as one of Jackie Fisher's "large light cruisers" to undertake an amphibious landing on the Baltic coast of Germany during the First World War.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Furious-47.html (581 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Ganges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Ganges was an 84-gun 2nd rate of the Royal Navy launched on November 10, 1821 at Bombay Dockyard.
		HMS Minotaur was a British Royal Navy ironclad of the Minotaur class.
		HMS Agincourt was one of three Minotaur class ironclad frigates.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Ganges (521 words)

	HMS Ganges (1782) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She saw active service from 1782 to 1811, in Europe and the West Indies; she took at least one prize, the French 24-gun (A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer) corvette Jacobin.
		She was commissioned as a prison ship on December 12th 1811, for holding prisoners of war, transferred to the Board of Transport in 1814, and broken up at (A town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620) Plymouth in 1816.
		See (Click link for more info and facts about HMS Ganges) HMS Ganges for other ships of the Royal Navy with this name.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Ganges_(1782)2.htm (171 words)

	Ganges on Salt Spring Island BC
		The first HMS Ganges was built in England and launched in 1782, and finally broken up in 1816.
		The HMS Ganges was in the Pacific region from 1857 to 1861.
		The Ganges Museum is located in the Bittancourt House on the grounds of the Farmers' Institute at 351 Rainbow Road.
	www.saltspringisland.org /ganges/ganges.htm (646 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Memories of old Ganges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On Saturday afternoons in the summer Ganges boys with spare time were allowed to climb the mast, and on one day he and a mate were at the crossjack – the highest point on the mast, except for the topmast and its notorious button.
		The name HMS Ganges dates back to the 18th century with the launch of a 74-gun third rate which was built at Rotherhithe and launched in 1782.
		Still the influence of Ganges was spreading, and from 1962 all young adults from all branches of the Senior Service received their initial training in Suffolk, and the TROGs (‘Trained Rating Of Ganges’, as was entered on to their Service records) were valued members of ship’s companies throughout the Fleet and ashore.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2005/0506/0005061401.asp (1934 words)

	HMS Ganges - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Ganges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Ganges - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Ganges.
		Here you will find more informations about HMS Ganges.
		* The first Ganges was a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Ganges.html (205 words)

	wiki/HMS Glorious (77) Definition / wiki/HMS Glorious (77) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Glorious was a warship of the Royal Navy.
		Built as a "large light cruiser" during World War I, Glorious, her sister HMS Courageous, and half-sister HMS Furious were the brainchildren of Admiral Lord Fisher, and were designed to be "light cruiser destroyers".
		Her machinery was essentially similar to an earlier light cruiser, HMS Champion, with 2 sets to drive 4 shafts.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/HMS_Glorious_(77) (2915 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) is a major river in northern India.
		The region encompassing the delta near the Bay of Bengal coast is known as The Sundarbans (Beautiful Forests) – a region of thick mangrove forests, and one of the major habitats of the Royal Bengal tiger.
		Ganges is also the name of a commune in the Hérault département in France.
	ganges.iqexpand.com (1029 words)

	Timeline 1780-1789 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		1782 Jan 18, Daniel Webster (d.1852, aka Black Dan) American political leader, Senator and orator, lawyer, statesman, administrator and diplomat, was born in Salisbury, N.H. In 1830 he proclaimed "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" He was Secretary of State before the Civil War.
		1782 Lexington, Kentucky, was established and became the first commercial and cultural center west of the Allegheny Mountains.
		1782 John Goodricke, a deaf mute astronomer, explained the varying brightness of the star Algol as being the result of 2 stars orbiting a common center of gravity.
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	Capt. Edward Riou's service record
		He was then appointed to the H.M.S. Scourge in the West Indies, and on 3 Feb. 1782 was ill discharged from duty to the
		In 1795 he was moved into the H.M.S. Beaulieu of 40 guns; but his health gave way, and he was invalided.
		He took the commander-in-chief and Lord Nelson in to examine the defences of Copenhagen on 31 March, and on 1 April led the detached squadron through the narrow channel by which it advanced.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/guardian/images/service.htm (671 words)

	Greenwich Royal Hospital School 1
		The school's training vessel HMS FAME at Greenwich was broken up, with only the bow section with the figurehead and bowsprit, and the stern retained.
		The bow section was fitted to the south end of the small-bore rifle-range of the new school buildings at Holbrook, and the stern, including the “ginger-bread” and coat-of-arms of Greenwich Hospital, was purchased by Earle B. Smith, buyer for the Mariners’ Museum, in Newport News, Virginia, on 8 April 1935, and shipped to the museum.
		The charity had its origin in 1782 when £6000 was raised by subscribers of Lloyd’s for the widows and orphans of seamen drowned in the loss of the Royal George.
	www.mariners-l.co.uk /GreenwichRoyal.html (3073 words)

	Nelson & The Royal Navy
		He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean, and assigned to the HMS Victory
		HMS Victory was Lord Nelson's flagship when he died, having won a decisive victory at the battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805.
		Victory was launched on the 7th May 1765 and is the only 18th century 'line of battle' ship still in existence.
	daliatrevino.com /Nelson&TheRoyalNavy.htm (6183 words)

	Danish Ships-of-the-Line (1801-1873) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Was taken by the British after the siege and shelling of Copenhagen in 1807.
		Was destroyed by the British at the Naval Dock Yard in Copenhagen.
		Was captured by the British during the battle at Copenhagen Roads.
	www.navalhistory.dk /English/Naval_Lists/Fleetlist_ShipsOfTheLine.htm (523 words)

	Библиотека Luksian key \| Calendar: World's famous dates.
		1782 The Spanish captured Minorca from the British.
		1863 HMS Orpheus was wrecked off the New Zealand coast, with the loss of 185 li- ves.
		1782 The British fleet under Admiral Rodney defeated the French fleet in the Battle of the Saints in the West Indi- es.
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	Shipping News Items, Australia 1844, Mar-May
		When HMS Rainbow, the Honorable Captain Rouse, conveyed His Excellency Sir Ralph Darling to Moreton Bay, he had a copy of my chart, which he stated was very correct; also the ship Waterloo, that carried troops and prisoners to that settlement.
		The sea was running high at the time, but five hands on board of the Ganges volunteered to run the risk of boarding her with a hamper of refreshment and a compass, which they effected with considerable difficulty, and returned safely to their own vessel after their praiseworthy exertions.
		In this improvement, or rather invention, for it will perhaps be considered worthy of that name, he has the same merit as the celebrated Bramah, who converted what was called the hydrostatic paradox from a sort of puzzle into a most powerful and useful machine.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/australia/aunews1844.htm (6278 words)

	HMS Glory (R62) Definition / HMS Glory (R62) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		HMS Glory (R62) Definition / HMS Glory (R62) Research
		HMS Glory (R62) was a Colossus-class aircraft carrier of the Royal NavyThe Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom.
		It operates a number of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, fifteen nuclear submarines, and various other ships, as well as aircraft, and the UK's amphibious force: the Royal Marines.
	www.elresearch.com /HMS_Glory_%28R62%29 (752 words)

	Biographies for Gowlland family website
		After a period as Master First Assistant Surveyor on HMS “Hydra” in a survey of the Greek Islands in 1864/65, he was appointed to the Australian Survey as chief assistant to the NSW Government Survey schooner “Edith” and returned to Sydney on 23 May 1865.
		He was serving on HMS "Raleigh" on the Bermuda Station when she grounded in thick fog off the coast of Labrador in August 1922.
		In 1942 he was posted to HMS "Birmingham"; but she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean and had to be sailed to Norfolk, Virginia, for a re-build.
	www.gowlland.me.uk /biographies.htm (11045 words)

	H.M.S. Alert Page One
		Alert was in action during the Battle of Saintes April 12th 1782.
		The 9th Alert, a Frigate, was laid down at Blyth in 1944 as the Loch Scamadale, renamed Dundrum Bay, she was launched 10th July 1945.
		Early in 1951 I was drafted to H.M.S Alert, a Despatch vessel.
	fwaterfield.tripod.com /hmsalert/alert.html (724 words)

	Gothic Fiction - Chronology
		The return of HMS Resolution to England and the display of pictures and engravings of the southern hemisphere arouse much popular interest.
		Captain Bligh embarks on the voyage of HMS Bounty to undertake agricultural research for Joseph Banks, (from 1787 to 1789).
		Charles Darwin embarks on voyage on the HMS Beagle.
	www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk /digital_guides/gothic_fiction/Chronology.aspx (6277 words)

	Lapérouse biography
		The Belle-Poule was attacked by HMS Arethusa, an act which prompted the French to officially declare war on Britain.
		The journey south was without incident and Lapérouse joined de Grasse on 13 January 1782 in the successful attack of St. Kitts.
		Nearly 100 men had died on the three ships, many others had been ill, and the conditions had been so unpleasant that Lapérouse was ready to admit that the destruction of the forts hardly justified the campaign.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~lap2 (9345 words)

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		Other recommendations were: free bedding and mess utensils for a new recrui 2 CONC t, free uniform for continuous service entrantrs; an improved scale of vicyualling; improve 2 CONC d pay for seamen gunners; and most important,the formation of a royal navy reserve." (The Oxf 2 CONC ord Illustrated History of the Navy).
		HMS King George V was present at the surrend of th 2 CONC e German fleet at Scpa Flow,at the end of WWI.
		It appears that Albert was part of the crew a 2 CONC t that time.
	www.butlersguesthouse.com /ButlerFamHist/butfamhis.ged (2141 words)

	SHIPWRECKS ON THE AUSTRALIA RUN
		As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, as distinct from another vessel of the same name already in service.
		HMS Brisk searched the Chatham Islands for two boats containing Captain Yule and most of the passengers and crew but no trace of them was ever found.
		Land was eventually sighted, the Constantine went ahead and H.M.S. Ganges, Admiral Baynes, came out and took the ship in tow reaching Valparaiso on 10 April 1859.
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /austrun-wrecks.html (19872 words)

	Capt Fredrick Lewis Maitland
		From Cape Francois had been taken by HMS Edinburgh retaken by a French privateer and bound for Port au Prince loaded with sugar and indigo Sent a PO and 8 seamen on board to take charge of her and brought the French prisoners on board.
		HMS Burford made the signal for Court Martial.
		Captain Maitland was immediately on his arrival appointed to the Queen, of ninety guns, in which he continued till the month of August 1782, always stationed in the main fleet, or employed on Channel service.
	www.antonymaitland.com /captfred.htm (17099 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy,P-Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		GELL`s squadron (ST GEORGE, EDGAR, GANGES and EGMONT), after she had been 11 days in the possession of the French.
		Her cargo, which had taken two years to collect, was the richest ever trusted on board a single ship and worth between 1.2 and 1.3 million pounds.
		She proved to be le BARBIER de SEVILLE, a perfectly new vessel, had been out two days from Boulogne, but not made any capture; she mounted sixteen men, with 60 men, commanded by Francois Brunet.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /PQ.htm (18929 words)

	UBC Archives - Philip and Helen Akrigg - File List
		[8] 3-111 (Priscilla Knuth) "H.M.S. Modeste on the Pacific Coast 1843-47" Oregon Historical Quarterly, LXI (Dec. 1960) 408-463.
		F.W. Richards (H.M.S. Ganges), letter of 4 Dec 1858 to his father.
		Duke of Lennox and Richmond (H.M. the Queen) b.
	www.library.ubc.ca /archives/u_arch/akrigg1.html (16803 words)

	Plymouth, Prison Ships
		the "L'Oiseau", formerly the 36-gun French frigate the "Cleopatra", which was captured on June 18th 1793 off Start Point by Captain Edward Pellew, who was in command of "HMS Nymphe".
		The "Panther"was taken out of service on December 24th 1811, having been replaced by the "Ganges", which was commissioned on December 12th.
		On January 1st 1813 the prison ships in commission were the "Brave", the "El Firme", the "Hector", the "Generaux", the L'Oiseau", the "San Ysidro", the "San Nicolas", the "Ganges" and the "Le Caton".
	www.plymouthdata.info /Prison%20Ships.htm (420 words)

	The Thirteen Gun Salute, by Patrick O'Brian
		The episode of the shipwreck of the Diane is based upon the events befalling HMS Alceste in 1817.
		On February 18, 1817, HMS Alceste ran aground on an uncharted reef in the Bangka Strait.
		POB's sources for this story were the 1817 "Narrative of a Voyage in HMS Alceste" written by John M'Leod, ship's surgeon, and the journal of midshipman Abbott.
	jfinnera.www1.50megs.com /Thirteen.htm (19679 words)

	Hissem_John Heysham Line
		In 1782 he published an essay, "An Account of Jail-Fever or Typhus carcerum, as it appeared at Carlisle in the year 1781," in which he described a more effective treatment he had devised using cinchona bark and port wine.
		The smugglers, however, having obtained immediate assistance, the still and spirits were recaptured, and in the contest, one of the officers was severely wounded and one of the smugglers wounded by a pistol ball which entered his mouth and passed through his cheek.
		He was probably assigned to the mid-east around 1870 when he gathered material for his book, "A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia," 1872, London.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_John_Heysham_Line.html (15064 words)

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