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	HMS Sceptre
		The second HMS Sceptre (1802)[?], 74, was launched on December 11, 1802 at Deptford.
		The third HMS Sceptre (1917)[?] was launched on April 13, 1917, in Glasgow.
		The fourth HMS Sceptre (1943)[?] was a 1940-programme British S-class submarine[?] (not to be confused with the earlier United States S-class submarines[?]) launched on January 9, 1943, in Greenock[?], although her keel had been laid down in July 1940.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Sceptre.html (1725 words)

	Carnbo (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Swiftsure was launched in 1804, replacing an earlier HMS Swiftsure, which had been taken by the French in 1801.
		HMS Swiftsure first engaged the French Achille for 40 minutes, leaving her badly damaged, before other British ships joined the action, and her boats helped rescue the crew of Achille when she caught fire.
		HMS Swiftsure was captained by William Gordon Rutherford, the son of John Rutherford of Bowland Stow, near Edinburgh, and Frances, widow of Gabriel Johnson, Governor of North Carolina.
	www.treeforall.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Scotland/News/Carnbo.htm (968 words)

	Nelson's Third Rate Ships of the Line
		In 1805, before Trafalgar, HMS Colossus was one of the inshore squadron watching the combined French and Spanish fleets at Cadiz and passing intelligence from the frigates outside the port to Nelson’s fleet waiting further out to sea.
		HMS Orion then shot down the Swiftsure’s main mast and both the Swiftsure and the Bahamas were taken as prizes.
		One of the quartergunners on HMS Colossus was Edward Saul.
	www.sole.org.uk /nelson.htm (1014 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaediat
		HMS Captain was a British turret ironclad of 6950 tons displacement built in 1869 and lost in 1870 when it capsized off Finisterre.
		Like HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious was completed in 1917 as a fast cruiser for use in the Great War in the Baltic, but by the 1920s with Britain wanting to increase her aircraft carrier strength she was converted to an aircraft carrier, as was HMS Courageous.
		HMS Wasp was a British steam gunboat, which was lost in September 1887 while on a passage from Singapore to Hong-Kong.
	david-pye.com /probert/F4.php (15252 words)

	Submarine - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The submarine and her plane could then act as a reconnaisance unit ahead of the fleet, an essential role at a time when radar still did not exist.
		The first example was the British HMS M2, followed by the French Surcouf, and numerous aircraft-carrying submarines in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		The sinking of the antiquated cruiser ARA General Belgrano by HMS Conqueror was the first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in wartime.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/u/b/Submarine.html (6660 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 5; Ch. 6. "The Years Leading Up To The War Of 1812." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	HMS Swiftsure (1804) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Swiftsure (launched in 1804 at Bucklers Hard) was a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line which fought at Trafalgar.
		The French ship SwiftSure (74) also took part in the battle.
		It was a myth at the time that the Swiftsure sailed faster at night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Swiftsure_(1804) (102 words)

	Robert Heriott Barclay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the summer of 1798 Barclay was appointed a midshipman on board the HMS Anson, a 44-gun frigate.
		The Swiftsure was engaged with the Achille, a French 74, and suffered seventeen killed and wounded.
		Only slightly damaged, the Swiftsure was extensively involved in rescue and salvage operations during the severe gale that followed the battle.
	www.nps.gov /pevi/HTML/Barclay.html (1101 words)

	Swiftsure
		HMS Swiftsure was built at Bucklers Hard near Beaulieu and was launched in 1804, replacing an earlier Swiftsure which had been taken by the French in 1801.
		Swiftsure first engaged the French Achille (74 guns) for 40 minutes leaving her badly damaged before other British ships joined the action, and her boats, with others helped to rescue the crew of Achille when she caught fire.
		Swiftsure’s boats rescued 169 of the Redoubtable’s crew before the rising storm made further efforts impossible, and she sank with some of the prize crew still aboard while Swiftsure stood by.
	www.treeforall.org.uk /trafalgar/TrafalgarWoods/Otherwoods/Swiftsure (715 words)

	HMS Foudroyant (1798) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
		Captain Peter Paget took over the command on 27 February 1804, though for most of his time officially in command, he was out of the ship, with Christopher Nesham in acting command until Paget officially left the ship on 31 May 1805.
		HMS Trincomalee - the 44-gun frigate of 1817 purchased by Mr Cobb as a replacement for Foudroyant, and renamed Foudroyant in her honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Foudroyant_(1798) (2125 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy,P-Q (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She sailed on 22 February 1804 for Admiral CORNWALLIS with dispatches and on 25 March she assisted in the rescue of the crew of MAGNIFICENT,74, which had been wrecked on an uncharted rock near Pierres Noires, Brest.
		On 26 July 1804, a signal having been made aboard the flag- ship in the Hamoaze, a seaman from PICKLE attended by the boats of the fleet, manned and armed was flogged around the fleet in the Hamoaze and the Sound for mutiny.
		In October 1805 PICKLE was attached to the Weather Division of the fleet under Vice- Adm. of the White Lord NELSON and was a spectator of the Battle of Trafalgar.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /PQ.htm (18929 words)

	Portchester Civic Society - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		H.M.S. Portchester Castle continued serving with the 2nd Training Squadron until June 1956 when she was relieved by the Type 14 frigate H.M.S. Keppel.
		On July 26th, 1929, the cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire was engaged in gunnery practice off the Greek coast when a gun misfire initiated a fault in the drill procedure, causing the loss of life of 18 members of the crew.
		In 1941 during World War II, the battleship HMS King George V, armed with ten 14-inch guns, was involved in the conflict with the Bismarck, pride of the German Fleet, as HMS Hood had already been sunk and Churchill was keen to mobilise all available resources to exact vengeance.
	www.portchestercivicsociety.co.uk /genpage.php?page=Features (5617 words)

	CCS - James Cook in the Navy: The Capture of the Triton, May 1756
		Albans was part of a squadron with the Elizabeth, Romney, Bedford, Swiftsure and Colchester, all of which gave chase to vessels as the squadron sailed towards the French coast.
		HMS Aldborough, a new ship that had just come out of Perry’s shipyard at Blackwall in May, loaned them a replacement kedge anchor and another pilot, this time a river pilot, went on board to take the ship up to The Pool.
		Asturias is the central region on the north coast of Spain.
	www.captaincooksociety.com /ccsu9063.htm (1548 words)

	WikiMiki.net - HMS Duncan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Also during that war, HM submarines Splendid and Turbulent launched a number of Tomahawk cruise missiles on a variety of targets in Iraq.
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative, and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, is the Queen (who is overall head of the UK Armed Forces).
		Duncan died in 1804, aged 73, and is buried in Lundie.
	hms.duncan.en.wikimiki.net.cob-web.org:8888 (8382 words)

	Napoleon I of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was the effective ruler of France (as First Consul) starting in 1799 declared himself Emperor Napoléon on May 18 1804 and continued as Emperor until April 6 1814 ; he is also known as Napoléon I or Napoléon le Grand ("the great").
		Napoléon over the course little more than a decade acquired control most or all of the western and mainland of Europe by conquest or alliance until his at the Battle of Waterloo followed shortly by capture and exile.
		Claims that he seized the crown of the hands of Pope Pius VII during the ceremony in order to subjecting himself to the authority of the are apocryphal ; after the Imperial regalia had been by the Pope Napoléon crowned himself before his wife Joséphine as Empress.
	www.freeglossary.com /Napoleon_I_of_France (2502 words)

	Bermuda's History from 1700 to 1899
		The Bermuda-built small warship HMS Pickle of the Royal Navy played a unique role in the Battle of Trafalgar in which the Royal Navy, with 448 dead and 1,241 wounded, soundly defeated the French.
		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.
		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 obvious accomplishments, skills and obvious leadership qualities in Bermuda were such that he was marked for prompt promotion and increased military responsibilities.
	www.bermuda-online.org /history1700-1899.htm (8010 words)

	Marine Art of Gordon Frickers - Extra Info - H.M. Schooner "Pickle", first with the news of the Battle of ...
		Her crew are shown in the process of reducing sail, each is modelled on a friend of the artist, except one of the figures is a self portrait.
		On 26 July 1804, a signal having been made aboard the flag-ship in the Hamoaze, a seaman from Pickle attended by the boats of the fleet manned and armed, was flogged around the fleet in the Hamoaze and Plymouth Sound for mutiny.
		Eventually she was rescued by a boat from HMS Pickle, whose crew were by then out-numbered 4 to 1 by French survivors they had rescued.
	www.frickers.co.uk /marine-art/urgent_dispatches_extra.html (2994 words)

	Capt Fredrick Lewis Maitland
		From September 1804 she spent an unproductive 3 months cruising in the Adriatic and from December 1804 to April 1805 she was employed protecting the Levant trade and escorted a large convoy from the eastern Mediterranean to Gibraltar.
		At the end of 1804 she, with HIBERNIA, THUNDERER, PRINCESS R0YAL, PRINCE 0F 0RANGE and RAIS0NABLE, was employed in the defence of the coast of Ireland.
		The schooner OLIVE BRANCH was recaptured by BELLEROPHON in the spring of 1804.
	www.antonymaitland.com /flm2life.htm (15141 words)

	Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In May 1778 it received the command over the HMS Suffolk (74 cannons), in which channel fleet under admiral Keppel, from whom it changed in December on the monarch (likewise 74 cannons).
		In January 1779 it participated against-striving in the military justice procedure against Keppel, its Mentor, and tried several times to intervene in the run of the procedure and to affect it to favour Keppels, which was finally acquitted.
		Personal influence kept the Duncans' the crew of the Vengeance, but except for a further exception, the HMS Adamant, refused all other ships leaving their anchorage before Yarmouth and left it the Vengeance and the Adamant pretending further one blockade actually any longer not existing.
	cleverpedia.com /Adam_Duncan,_1st_Viscount_Duncan_of_Camperdown (2332 words)

	History of Nova Scotia: Book 2, Part 5, Notes to Chapter 6, "The Years Leading Up To The War Of 1812." (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1809, he was transferred to HMS Barfleur that was stationed at Lisbon, following as Flag Captain to his father in law who had been appointed Commander in Chief there.
		The 36-gun Jason was built at Woolwich in 1804; she was broken up in 1815.
		On July 12th, 1810, the government wrote the magistrates at St. Margaret's Bay enclosing the description of two deserters from HMS Penelope, 36 guns, who went in the direction of St. Margaret's Bay.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part5/Ch06fn.htm (1871 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy A2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was involved in an action with the Franco/Batavian flotilla on 16 May 1804.
		Captured 1812) On 14 August 1804 she escorted the East India Co's ship OCEAN westwards through the Channel and on the 18th she sailed from Deal to convoy a fleet of outward bound merchantships as far as Portsmouth.
		DE ROOS was born at Boyle Farm in Surrey on 6 May 1804, the third son of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, and entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman at the age of 14.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /A2.HTM (21549 words)

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		Post Captain HMS Dryad (36) drowned 1795 179 FORSTER William Ensign 68th Regt Foot To be 1st Lt 23rd Regt Foot 318 FORTESCUE Lieutenant RN of HMS Barham (frigate) 299 FOSS T. Hosp Asst.
		Lieut HMS Swift - killed 1804 180 LEARY Patrick Troop Serj.major 14th Drag.To be Adjutant (Cornet) 318 LESLIE Matthew Colonel (died 3/10/1778) of Bengal Detachment in 1774 169 LILLYMAN Major Passenger in "Grenville" 1768 150-152 LINDESAY Patrick Lieut Col. Commanded Dorset Regt -12/8/1824 111, LINDESEY P. Col. 39th Regt.
		To be Cornet 4th Light Dragoons 317 SCOTT J.Woodward Lieut HMS Princess Augusta Killed1803 180 SCOTT John Ensign in Bengal Brother of Col Scott 149 SCOTT Richard Lieut.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/Indexes/RN-1827.txt (2135 words)

	Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
		The author, Glynn Christian, is a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny aboard HMS BOUNTY in 1789.
		Thisis the wartime diary of a young naval surgeon serving aboard the armoured cruiser HMS KENT during the Battle of the Falklands in 1914.
		1st.ed., 1804, 1805, 1805, 1805, 1806 & 1809.
	www.ilab-lila.com /db/books768.html (10431 words)

	Buckler's Hard
		The Master Shipbuilder, Henry Adams, and his sons built ships like the Agamemnon, the Euryalus and the Swiftsure, all of which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
		Agamemnon was said to be Nelson’s favourite ship; he was serving as her captain when he met Lady Hamilton in Naples.
		Under the command of William Rutherford, she sank the French ship Achille at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and took the French ship Redoubtable in tow after the battle.
	www.bucklershard.co.uk /base2.cfm?ID=11 (1246 words)

	All About Gibraltar » Rosia Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Built between the years 1779 to 1804, the need to construct water tanks along the banks of Rosia Bay came about as a result of a visit by then Admiral John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent to the place sometime in 1799.
		As for the Rosia Water Tanks themselves, there are several records of a significant number of British battleships docking at Rosia Bay from where ostensibly, they made use of the then gradually growing number of facilities within the naval complex.
		One of these, the Royal Sovereign and Swiftsure, logged in a November 3, 1799 statement in its ship records that declares that they came away with approximately 29 fathoms of water that came from the Bay.
	www.gibraltar.com /rosia-bay (2074 words)

	Acidophilus Related Terms
		Just before the 1990s, the Royal Navy consisted of diesel and nuclear powered submarines but, due to the end of the Cold War, financial cuts saw the RN submarine fleet became all-nuclear, presently consisting of the Swiftsure and Trafalgar class submarines.
		The French eventually gave up with the experiment in 1804, as did the British when they later considered Fulton's submarine design.
		The sinking of the cruiser ARA General Belgrano by HMS Conqueror was the first sinking by a nuclear-powered submarine in war.
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Submarine (9300 words)

	Mariner's Mirror
		HM present fleet 1672 [Trevanion but no Saudadoes].
		HMS Kent (steamer 1796 - ref MM33 pp111-2).
		Thomas Howard's vaporiser - trial in HMS Comet [1834].
	home.clara.net /rabarker/bibl-mm-Luso.htm (3272 words)

	The History of the Fifth Vanguard of the Royal Navy - 1778 - 1821 (Nelson's Vanguard)
		Link to Letters and Dispatches of Lord Nelson from abroad HMS Vanguard during the Mediterranean Campaign
		The next two years were occupied within the dull monotony of the trade protection, mostly off San Domingo.
		She was intended to join Captain Bligh's force for the capture of Curacoa in January 1804 but, as her orders did not reach her, she was not at the appointed rendezvous with the
	battleshiphmsvanguard.homestead.com /Van5.html (2748 words)

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