Search results for "HMS Nelson" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte ... Two Royal Navy battleships have been named HMS Nelson in his honor ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- The British commander Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson died late in the battle, ... and difficulty, sailors would remember Nelson's words, and, even in ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- In 1770, at the age of 16, he joined HMS Hunter as an able seaman, ... few days later, he was appointed to serve on HMS Belle Poule as its master ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- and in 1699 Dampier was given the command of HMS Roebuck with a commission ... were studied by James Cook and Horatio Nelson. Daniel Defoe, author of ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- channel. Its north entrance is in the Nelson Strait. Its south arm is ... 1826 in command of the British survey vessel HMS Adventure, accompanied by ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- duel with the British thirty-gun man-of-war HMS Scarborough, which added to ... 11, 1718, in command of thirty men from HMS Pearl, and twenty-five men ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- Brest in Brittany fired on the British brig HMS Childers.HMS Childers was ... fleet in three groups. George Montagu, in HMS Hector, was sent with six ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- other ships were badly damaged, such as HMS Lion and SMS Seydlitz. At ... *The Hon. Edward Barry Stewart Bingham (HMS Nestor) *John Travers Cornwell ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- tour as sailing master of James Cook's HMS Resolution during Cook's ... * David Nelson, Botanist ===Midshipmen=== * John Hallett, Midshipman ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- , Jackie Fisher, took the lead and completed HMS Dreadnought in only 11 months ... slightly cheaper than the previous Lord Nelson class of pre-Dreadnoughts. ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- with a personal friend, the writer Robert Nelson, and made the acquaintance ... In 1698 he received a commission as captain of HMS Paramore Pink to ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- the privilege of serving alongside Lord Nelson and the Shawnee Chief, Tecumseh ... In 1801, while aboard the 74 gun HMS Ganges, commanded by his personal ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- Destroyer Flotilla. His ship, the destroyer HMS Kelly, was famous for many ... In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of HMS Illustrious ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- were used to relay information by sea. Thus, the HMS Pickle brought Britain the first news that Nelson had defeated the French forces at the Battle ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- he was stationed in the West Indies under Horatio Nelson, who wrote of William, "In his professional line, he is superior to two-thirds, I am sure ...36 KB (5,444 words) - 21:27, 8 February 2024
- after setting sail he was stopped by the HMS Duchess, whose captain was ... Stevenson's Treasure Island, and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- the arriving British fleet under Horatio Nelson managed to slip half of their ... made his formal surrender while on board HMS Bellerophon on July 15, 1815. ...53 KB (8,268 words) - 01:21, 11 November 2022
- end of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle, one of the fastest vessels in the Royal Navy, raced back to England with news of the victory ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
