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Seaflower (16)
1782-1808
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Cutter
Update
William Pierrepont
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1789-1812
Update
Meleager (32)
1785-1801
British 32 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
Update
Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1781-1837
Update
James Carter
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1793-1794
Update
Fortitude (74)
1780-1820
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
Added
William Grainger
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1793-1794
Update
Britannia (100)
1762-1825
British 100 Gun
1st Rate
Ship of the Line
1812 Renamed "Princess Royal"
1812 Renamed "Saint George"
1819 Renamed "Barfleur"
Update
Thomas Gordon Caulfield
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1793-1821
Update
Victory (100)
1765-2019
British 100 Gun
1st Rate
Ship of the Line
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Kingfisher (18)
1782-1798
British 18 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
(1782)
Beaulieu (40)
1791-1806
British 40 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
(1791)
Artois (38)
1794-1797
British 38 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
(1794)
Amphion (32)
1780-1796
British 32 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
(1780)
Sir William Bolton
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1795-1815
Centaur (74)
1797-1819
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1797)
Lord Richard Howe (1
st
Earl Howe)
British
Naval Sailor
Marine
Service 1736-1799
Anthony Fortye
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1737-1738
George Blyte
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1735-1758
Sir Alexander Schomberg
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1743-1804
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Dorset
Other Information
Type
:
County
Location(s)
:
England -
Great Britain
Associated Locations
Ballard Down
- Signal Station
Blandford
- Town
Bridport
- Port
Christchurch
- Town
+
Isle of Purbeck
- Peninsula
Saint Alban's Head
- Headland
Swanage
- Town
Lyme Regis
- Port
→ 1066-1284 Lyme
Poole
- Port
Round Down
- Signal Station
Saint Alban's Head
- Headland
Shaftesbury
- Parliament constituency
Weymouth
- Port
+
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
- Parliament constituency
Weymouth
- Port
Offices associated with Dorset and related locations
Barrack Master Weymouth
Coast Guard Weymouth
Member of Parliament Christchurch
Member of Parliament Bridport
Member of Parliament Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
Member of Parliament Shaftesbury
Sea Fencibles Weymouth
Vice-Admiral of the Coast Dorset
Events at Dorset
1625
Birth of
Sir Richard Stayner
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1649-1662
1733/08/29
Birth of
Sir Henry Martin (Baronet Martin of Lockynge)
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1749-1780
c.1790
Birth of
James Dew
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1805
1792/09
Death of
Bravil Friend
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1756-1775
1824/07/21
Death of
Thomas Macnamara Russell
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1760-1812
TRN3
1826/05/20
Death of
George Frederick Ryves
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1780-1825
1832/09/13
Death of
George Sidney Smith
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1814-1832
Sources
ID
Name
Author
Type
TRN3
The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present Vol III
William Laird Clowes
,
Digital Book
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1782-1798
British 18 Gun
Unrated
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British 40 Gun
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British 38 Gun
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1780-1796
British 32 Gun
5th Rate
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