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HMS Barfleur (1768) (611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Vincent. In 1805, under Captain George Martin, she was part of the Channel Fleet. Her final battle was fought in a squadron under Admiral Sir Robert

HMS Belleisle (1795) (442 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Lion was a Téméraire class 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the French Navy, which later served in the Royal Navy. She was named Lion on 23 April

HMS Saturn (714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1786 at Northam. The vessel served during the Napoleonic Wars with the Channel Fleet, taking part in the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen. With the beginning of

HMS Pegasus (1779) (1,282 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

on the flood tide undamaged. On 14 July 1793 Pegasus sailed with the Channel fleet from St. Helen's. On 18 July she was west of the Scilly Isle. On 31

HMS Mars (1794) (378 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

early part of the French Revolutionary Wars she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. In 1797 under Captain Alexander Hood she was prominent in the Spithead

HMS Centaur (1797) (4,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

bale goods and nuts. Under Captain Littlehales, while serving with the Channel Fleet, Centaur and her sister ship, Mars, collided off the Black Rocks during

Nathaniel Portlock (921 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

examination on 7 September 1780, then served on HMS Firebrand in the Channel fleet. On Cook's third voyage, furs obtained in present-day British Columbia

HMS Lee (1899) (555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Navy until March 1901. After commissioning she was deployed to the Channel Fleet and based at Shearness as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla

HMS Spartiate (1798) (624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

repairs from December 1805 to February 1806. Thereafter she joined the Channel Fleet and, for the next two years, was involved in the blockade of Rochefort

HMS Greyhound (1900) (620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

January 1902, at a total cost of £61,066. Greyhound was assigned to the Channel Fleet on her commission. In May 1902, she was under the command of Commander

Daniel Hoghton (838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spent a brief period standing in for a Royal Marines detachment in the Channel Fleet. A popular and able officer, Wellington was reported to have commented

Joseph Ames (naval commander) (266 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

as a sailor from his youth, he was one of the commanders of a small Channel fleet watching the Dutch coast in 1641. In January 1653 he returned to Plymouth

HMS Galatea (1794) (3,856 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

HMS Galatea was a fifth-rate 32-gun sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy that George Parsons built at Bursledon and launched in 1794. Before she was

HMS Vigilant (1900) (619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

assigned to the Channel Fleet in the Portsmouth Flotilla. She spent her operational career mainly in Home Waters, operating with the Channel Fleet. On 30 August

HMS Falcon (1899) (921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

waters operating with the Channel Fleet. Falcon was commissioned at Devonport on 4 January 1902 and was assigned to the Channel Fleet to serve in the instructional

HMS Bullfinch (1898) (855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Navy in June 1901. After commissioning Bullfinch was assigned to the Channel Fleet. Commander Brian Barttelot was appointed in command on 24 February 1902

Humphrey Firman (691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

China Station, in the battleships HMS Albion and HMS Illustrious in the Channel Fleet, and in the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. Promoted to Lieutenant

HMS Vixen (1900) (741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

accepted by the Royal Navy in March 1902. Vixen was assigned to the Channel Fleet. She was commissioned at Devonport by Commander William George Elmhirst

Carla Kelly (1,587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carla Sue Kelly (born 1947) is an American writer in the Regency romance genre. She is the author of over forty books and short stories. Her books are

Second-rate (729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

maladroitness occurred on 25 December 1796 when, on sighting the enemy, the Channel Fleet attempted a hurried departure from Spithead: Four second-rates collided

HMS Berwick (1775) (1,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Channel Fleet. In July, she took part in the Battle of Ushant under the command of Captain the Hon. Keith Stewart. She served with the Channel Fleet throughout

HMS Defiance (1783) (1,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

by Lt M.T. Hewitt for Captain George Keppel. He sailed her with the Channel Fleet during September and October 1796 at which time it was reported that

Luc Urbain du Bouëxic, comte de Guichen (619 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

American Independence, Guichen was appointed to the command of the Channel fleet, which he led in the Battle of Ushant on 27 July 1778. His flagship

Charles Royds (590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mediterranean, and in 1907 transferred to HMS King Edward VII in the Channel Fleet. In June 1909, he became executive officer in the rank of commander

Henry Blackwood (1,696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Claneboye. With this command he sailed in the North Sea and later with the Channel Fleet, receiving a small squadron command during the blockade of Toulon in

HMS Griffon (1860) (388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which utilized burning lime and was already utilized by the Navy's Channel Fleet, was adopted by the rest of the Royal Navy the same year. Stubbs was

HMS Royal George (1756) (3,248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

destruction". Royal George joined the Western Squadron (also known as the Channel Fleet) under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke in May 1756, just as the Seven Years'

Francis Hartwell (383 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

had better luck with his next command, the cutter Rattlesnake in the Channel fleet, when they captured a French West-Indiaman, after which he was promoted

Erasmus Gower (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in February 1799 and hoisted his flag in HMS Princess Royal in the Channel Fleet and Ireland, with his protege David Atkins as flag captain. In 1804

Assheton Curzon-Howe (932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

No. 36955. London. 19 December 1902. p. 4. The Royal Navy June 1906 Channel Fleet Extracts from Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century Newspapers -

Robert Calder (2,284 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

commander, later post-captain. He commanded the frigate HMS Diana of the Channel fleet at Spithead under Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, and acquitted himself

Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet (1,230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pounds. The following year he took command of Thunderer in Lord Howe's Channel Fleet. With Thunderer and Howe, Bertie participated in the Atlantic campaign

USS Narragansett (SP-2196) (445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

convoy, arriving at Saint-Nazaire and reporting for duty in the Cross Channel Fleet on the 21st. From that time until the Armistice, Narragansett served

HMS Edgar (1779) (2,358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Howe ordered a retreat. Edgar spent the remainder of the war in the Channel Fleet under Admiral George Darby. After the conclusion of the war in 1783

Todd Pletcher (1,210 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saturday, Ashado, Bluegrass Cat, Curalina, Devil May Care, English Channel, Fleet Indian, Flower Alley, Harlem Rocker, Lawyer Ron, Left Bank, Liam's Map

Andrew Mitchell (Royal Navy officer) (419 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

England in 1786. In February, 1795 he received command of a ship in the Channel fleet of Admiral Howe. In June, 1795 he was promoted rear-admiral of the blue

HMS St Vincent (1815) (543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, commanding the Channel Fleet. After a spell in ordinary at Portsmouth, from July to September 1854

HMS Foxhound (1806) (604 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Vierininguen. On 17 March 1809, Foxhound joined Admiral Lord Gambier's Channel fleet anchored off the Basque Roads. The British plan was to use the 60 vessels

Aiskew Hollis (704 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

request of Rear-Admiral Alan Gardner. In Queen, Hollis served in the Channel Fleet during the early years of the war and was badly wounded in the head

HMS Warrior (1781) (535 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen. Warrior then joined the Channel fleet off Brest to assist in deterring French invasion. In 1805, she was part

Prince Consort-class ironclad (4,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Robinson, "Remarks on Admiral Yelverton's Report on the Cruise of the Channel Fleet". Parkes writing in the 1950s also called them the Caledonias, Parkes

Classis Germanica (3,088 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Roman fleet in Germania Superior and Germania Inferior. Besides the Channel Fleet (Classis Britannica), it was one of the largest naval forces of the

James O'Brien, 3rd Marquess of Thomond (561 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

commanded by the Duke of Clarence, under whom he also served with the Channel fleet in HMS Valiant in 1790. As a lieutenant he joined, in succession, on

Hornblower and the Hotspur (527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as one of the final acts of the retiring Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, Admiral Cornwallis, a real figure outside of the Hornblower novels

John Harvey (Royal Navy officer, born 1740) (1,110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and powerful 74-gun ship of the line HMS Brunswick in the Channel Fleet. The Channel Fleet was not forced to wait long before joining action, Britain

HMS Prince (1788) (473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Her hull was lengthened in 1796. By 1805 she was in service with the Channel Fleet under Captain Richard Grindall. At the Battle of Trafalgar, in October

HMS Aigle (1801) (4,891 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

murder but were acquitted. Continuing to patrol in home waters with the Channel Fleet, Aigle shared in the prize money for a 40-gun French frigate, Franchise

HMS Research (1863) (1,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

any nation pretending to a maritime reputation". She served in the Channel Fleet from 1864 to 1866, and in the Mediterranean from 1871 to 1878. On 1

Arthur Fleming Morrell (972 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

volunteer. He served first on HMS Doris, a 38-gun fifth rate ship in the Channel fleet that took several French ships as prizes during the years Morrell served

Nathaniel Fanning (831 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ordered Eclipse to pass directly through the middle of the British Channel Fleet in broad daylight. To evade capture, he hoisted English colors and when

HMS Queen (1902) (2,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

War began in August 1914, the 5th Battle Squadron was assigned to the Channel Fleet and based at Portland. Queen and her half-sister Implacable were attached

HMS Camperdown (1885) (855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

flagship, where she remained until being posted as flagship of the Channel Fleet in May 1890. She was paid off in May 1892 into Fleet reserve, recommissioning

HMS Camperdown (1885) (855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

flagship, where she remained until being posted as flagship of the Channel Fleet in May 1890. She was paid off in May 1892 into Fleet reserve, recommissioning

Arthur Phillip (7,298 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

appointed first lieutenant of the 74-gun HMS Alexander as part of the Channel fleet. Promoted to commander on 2 September 1779 and given command of the

Edward Ellicott (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1781 as first-class volunteer, serving on board the Mackworth in the Channel Fleet. He became a midshipman in 1783, serving on a number of ships, and was

Frank W. Wood (727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

HMS Edinburgh (1906) HMS Revenge (1918) HMS King Edward VII and The Channel Fleet (1908) HMS Sylvia (1904) Review of the fleet off Torbay (1922) French

Battle of Cape Spartel (1,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Spain was seeking cession of the territory in peace talks. The British Channel Fleet, which was under the command of Admiral Richard Howe, had a number of

HMS Racehorse (1900) (757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Royal Navy in March 1902. After commissioning she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. She spent her operational career mainly in home waters. In May 1902

HMS Phoenix (1832) (758 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

commissioned on 6 November 1833 under Commander Robert Oliver, for the Channel Fleet. From 9 September 1835 to June 1838 she was commanded by Commander William

Fleet Brook (1,237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Section Ecological Status Chemical Status Overall Status Length Catchment Channel Fleet Brook Moderate Fail Moderate 10.0 miles (16.1 km) 12.77 square miles

HMS Superb (1798) (1,084 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Charles Paget. Paget was appointed to command Superb as part of the Channel Fleet, and during a cruise in the Bay of Biscay he took several prizes. On

HMS Shannon (1803) (594 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

within three months of her being launched. She was attached to the Channel fleet and spent the next few months under her captain, Edward Leveson-Gower

HMS Renown (1798) (774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in 1805 was under repair at Plymouth. After a further spell in the Channel Fleet (1807-8), she transferred again to the Mediterranean.[citation needed]

James Frederick Lyon (801 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

and HMS Marlborough, 74 guns, Captain Hon. George Berkeley, in the Channel fleet under Lord Howe. He was thus present in the actions of 27 and 29 May

HMS Scorpion (1863) (940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and Wivern. Commissioned in July 1865, Scorpion was assigned to the Channel Fleet until 1869, with time out for a refit that reduced her sailing rig from

Robert Stopford (Royal Navy officer) (1,085 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was appointed captain of the 74-gun third rate HMS Excellent in the Channel Fleet. He sailed Excellent to the West Indies where he hoisted a commodore's

HMS Blake (1889) (424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

America and West Indies Squadron from 1892 to 1895, Blake served in the Channel Fleet. In October 1900 she was employed as a temporary transport ship. She

Joshua Reynolds (5,436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Battle of Ushant against the French in 1778, Lord Keppel commanded the Channel Fleet and the outcome resulted in no clear winner; Keppel ordered the attack

Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer) (1,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Fremantle did not remain at home long. When Nelson took command of the Channel Fleet, Fremantle joined him in August 1800 as commander of the ship of the

James Stanier Clarke (1,131 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Navy as a chaplain; and served, 1796–99, on board HMS Impetueux in the Channel fleet, under the command of captain John Willett Payne, by whom he was introduced

HMS Sceptre (1802) (1,246 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

again on 28 June under the command of Captain A. C. Dickson to join the Channel fleet. In July 1803, she sailed for the East Indies station. She would serve

James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (2,730 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

promoted in 1795, Saumarez was appointed to the 74-gun HMS Orion in the Channel fleet, where he took part in the defeat of the French fleet at the Battle

HMS Hood (1891) (2,361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Collingwood in the Home Fleet. She took part in combined exercises of the Channel Fleet, Mediterranean Fleet, and Home Fleet off the coast of Portugal from

HMS Dove (1898) (1,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Royal Navy in July 1901. After commissioning Dove was assigned to the Channel Fleet, taking part in the 1901 Naval Manoeuvres. Commander Douglas Nicholson

HMS Thames (1758) (1,474 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

name unknown. On 1 June, Thames was a part of a squadron detached from Channel fleet to Quiberon Bay and the Morbihan. On 4 June Thames, Cynthia and some

HMS Ocean (1863) (1,109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

not completed until 6 September 1866. Ocean initially served with the Channel Fleet, but she was almost immediately transferred to the Mediterranean, and

John McClintock (Royal Navy officer) (262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and gunnery lieutenant on the battleship HMS Jupiter, serving in the Channel Fleet. He served in World War I, during which he commanded the battleship

William Johnstone Hope (1,321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In 1794, Hope was in command of HMS Incendiary, a fireship of the Channel Fleet attached to Lord Howe's force sent to engage the French. In March, Hope

Sherard Osborn (1,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Co. Ltd. In 1871, he was appointed as captain of HMS Hercules in the Channel Fleet. On 12 June 1873, he was appointed rear admiral. His interest in Arctic

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) (3,573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Cape St. Vincent by a reinforcement of five ships of the line from the Channel Fleet under Rear-Admiral William Parker. On 11 February, the British frigate

Charles de Bartolomé (342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cruiser HMS Drake on her first commission in January 1903, serving in the Channel Fleet. Promoted to captain in 1905, he was given command of HMS Dreadnought

Charles Paget (Royal Navy officer) (1,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

He was appointed to HMS Superb, another third rate belonging to the Channel Fleet, and during a cruise in the bay of Biscay he took several prizes. In

Henry Harvey (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

raising his flag in HMS Royal Sovereign as second-in-command of the Channel Fleet until the Peace of Amiens in 1801. Harvey retired from the Navy a vice-admiral

HMS Minerva (1780) (1,651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

11 April 1781, Minerva was serving with Vice-Admiral George Darby's Channel Fleet off Cape St. Vincent when the British spotted three vessels. Darby sent

France in the American Revolutionary War (4,364 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

confirmed to have left in pursuit of d'Estaing, thus weakening the British Channel fleet. In spite of this reduction, the British fleet still outnumbered the

François Joseph Bouvet (772 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

the close of 1796 he continued in command of a squadron in the French Channel fleet. In the December of that year he was entrusted with the van division

Edward Codrington (1,856 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Lord Howe selected him to be signal lieutenant on the flagship of the Channel fleet at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars. In that capacity