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Thomas Edward Hoste
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1810-1828
Update
Sir William Hoste
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1798-1824
Update
Veteran (64)
1787-1816
British 64 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
Update
Thomas Clark
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1793-1794
Added
Charles Inglis
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1792
Update
Charles Inglis
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1790-1814
Update
Swiftsure (74)
1787-1801
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
Update
Trompeuse (16)
1794-1796
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
Update
John Douglas
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1778-1807
Update
Galatea (32)
1794-1809
British 32 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
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Puissant (74)
1793-1816
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1793)
Stork (16)
1796-1816
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
(1796)
David Hotchkis
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1779-1797
Sandwich (90)
1759-1810
British 90 Gun
2nd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1759)
Bedford (74)
1775-1817
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1775)
Pomone (44)
1794-1802
British 44 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
(1794)
Canada (74)
1765-1834
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1765)
Haarlem (68)
1785-1797
Dutch 68 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1785)
Hercules (66)
1781-1797
Dutch 66 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1781)
Le Railleur (20)
1797-1797
French 20 Gun
Privateer
Corvette
(1797)
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Plymouth
Other Information
Type
:
Port
Location(s)
:
Devon -
England
Nationality
:
Great Britain
Associated Locations
Devonport
- Port
Plymouth Dockyard
- Naval Dockyard
→ 1837-2016 Devonport Dockyard
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
- Hospital
Turnchapel
- Private Shipyard
Offices associated with Plymouth and related locations
2nd Lead Man Plymouth Dockyard
Admiral-Superintendant Plymouth
Agent for Prizes Plymouth Dockyard
Agent for the Sick & Hurt Plymouth Dockyard
Armourer Plymouth Dockyard
Assistant Master Shipwright Plymouth Dockyard
Assistant Matron Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Boatswain of the Dockyard Plymouth Dockyard
Boy Plymouth Dockyard
Cabin Keeper Plymouth Dockyard
Caulker Plymouth Dockyard
Clerk Plymouth Dockyard
Clerk of the Cheque Plymouth Dockyard
Clerk of the Ropeyard Plymouth Dockyard
Clerk of the Survey Plymouth Dockyard
Commander-in-Chief Plymouth Dockyard
Commander-in-Chief Plymouth
Commander-in-Chief Devonport
Converter Plymouth Dockyard
Foreman Plymouth Dockyard
Foreman of the Yard Plymouth Dockyard
Harbour Master Plymouth
House Carpenter Plymouth Dockyard
Inspector Plymouth Dockyard
Joiner Plymouth Dockyard
Labourer Plymouth Dockyard
Layer Plymouth Dockyard
Leading Man Plymouth Dockyard
Lord Mayor Plymouth
Mason Plymouth Dockyard
Master Attendant Plymouth Dockyard
Master Boat Builder Plymouth Dockyard
Master Bricklayer Plymouth Dockyard
Master Carpenter Plymouth Dockyard
Master Carver Plymouth Dockyard
Master Caulker Plymouth Dockyard
Master House Carpenter Plymouth Dockyard
Master Joiner Plymouth Dockyard
Master Mastmaker Plymouth Dockyard
Master Measurer Plymouth Dockyard
Master Painter Plymouth Dockyard
Master Ropemaker Plymouth Dockyard
Master Sailmaker Plymouth
Master Sailmaker Plymouth Dockyard
Master Shipwright Plymouth Dockyard
Master Smith Plymouth Dockyard
Matron Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Measurer Plymouth Dockyard
Member of Parliament Plymouth
Nurse Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Overseer Plymouth Dockyard
Physician to the Dockyard Plymouth Dockyard
Pilot Plymouth Dockyard
Porter Plymouth Dockyard
Purveyor Plymouth Dockyard
Quarterman Plymouth Dockyard
Resident Commissioner Plymouth
Resident Commissioner Plymouth Dockyard
Rigger Plymouth Dockyard
Sailmaker Plymouth Dockyard
Sawyer Plymouth Dockyard
Sea Fencibles Plymouth
Second Assistant Shipwright Plymouth Dockyard
Second in Command Plymouth
Second Master Attendant Plymouth Dockyard
Secretary Plymouth Dockyard
Servant Plymouth Dockyard
Ship Keeper Plymouth Dockyard
Shipwright Plymouth Dockyard
Shipwright's Apprentice Plymouth Dockyard
Smith Plymouth Dockyard
Spinner Plymouth Dockyard
Steward Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Storekeeper Plymouth Dockyard
Superintendant of the Dockyard Plymouth Dockyard
Superintendent Plymouth Dockyard
Superintendent of Gun Vessels Plymouth
Superintendent of the Victualling Yard Plymouth
Supervisor of Works Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Surgeon for the Sick & Hurt Plymouth Dockyard
Surgeon of the Ordinary Plymouth Dockyard
Surgeon of the Yard Plymouth Dockyard
Surgeon of the Yard Plymouth
Surgeon to the Prisoners of War Plymouth
Surgeon to the Prisoners of War Plymouth Dockyard
Surveyor Plymouth Dockyard
Teamer Plymouth Dockyard
Timber Master Plymouth Dockyard
Timber Store Receiver Plymouth Dockyard
Twine Spinner Plymouth Dockyard
Winder Plymouth Dockyard
Events at Plymouth
c.1506
Birth of
William Hawkins
British
Merchant Sailor
Service 1506-1553
1652/08/16
Battle of Plymouth
1694/04/17
Launched
Anglesea (50)
1694-1719
British 50 Gun
4th Rate
Ship of the Line
B028
1695/04/20
Launched
Lyme (32)
1695-1720
British 32 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
B028
1695/07/13
Action of 1695/07/13
ref:1010
1699/01/05
Death of
Thomas Pindar
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1689-1696
1699/01/05
Death of
John Bush
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1695-1699
1705/08
Death of
Jean Baptiste de Gennes (Comte d'Oyac)
French
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1673-1705
1718/04/10
Birth of
Joseph Veale
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1740-1753
1727/06/29
Launched
Mary Galley (40)
1727-1743
British 40 Gun
5th Rate
Ship of the Line
BWAS-1714
1738/02/20
Birth of
Abraham Furneaux
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1749-1772
1743
Death of
Manuel del Casal Pucheta
Spanish
Privateer
Service 1741-1742
1751/11/17
Death of
David Fillkins
British
Dockyard Staff
Service 1748-1751
1754/09/09
Birth of
William Bligh
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1762-1814
c.1755
Birth of
Charles Loggie
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1776-1783
1760/02/15
Death of
Daniel Gernier
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1759
1764/03/17
Death of
Anthony Kerly
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1727-1748
1770/01/20
Birth of
Zachariah Mudge
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1780-1849
ODNB
1770/10/13
Birth of
James Lillicrap
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1780-1846
NBD1849
1773/11/15
Birth of
George Bellamy
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1794-1817
1776/10/06
Death of
Patrick Strachan
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1749-1776
1780/02/24
Death of
Thomas Hankerson
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1727-1763
1781/05/21
Birth of
Nicholas Lockyer
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1803-1847
1785/03/10
Launched
Security (Unknown)
1785-1864
British Unknown Gun
Other
Lighter
1787/07/24
Birth of
William Lenthall Brake
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1796-1851
NBD1849
1788
Birth of
William Sanders
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1805-1809
NAO
1789/04/27
Launched
Tortoise (Unknown)
1789-1863
British Unknown Gun
Other
Lighter
1790/09/09
Launched
Trial (8)
1790-1816
British 8 Gun
Unrated
Cutter
BWAS-1714
1794/08
Launched
Magnanime (44)
1794-1813
British 44 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
BWAS-1793
1794/09/13
Death of
Thomas Fitzherbert
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1739-1794
1798/01/11
Death of
John Drew
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1777-1793
1798/10/06
Death of
Robert Harris
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1794-1798
1799
Birth of
William Burt
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1811-1835
1799/10/17
Launched
Carlebury (Unknown)
1799-1821
British Unknown Gun
Merchant
Merchantman
EICS
1804/05/24
Death of
Coryndon Boger
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1794-1804
1813/03/18
Launched
Rennie (Unknown)
1813-1863
British Unknown Gun
Unrated
Tender
BWAS-1793
1814/06
Launched
Windsor Castle (74)
1814-1839
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
BWAS-1714
1815/02/05
Death of
Charles Cudlipp
British
Naval Sailor
Medic
Service 1783-1803
1816
Death of
William Knight
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1798-1810
1818/06/25
Death of
John Burrows
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1754-1800
BWM3
1821/07
Launched
Ocean (80)
1821-1875
British 80 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
B028
1822/10/19
Death of
Richard Boger
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1754-1814
1823/02/04
Death of
Robert Fanshawe
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1759-1790
1826/05/12
Death of
Palms Westropp
British
Marine
Service 1793-1814
1832/07/19
Death of
Sir Israel Pellew
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1779-1814
1838/06/09
Launched
Pilot (16)
1838-1862
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
1840/09/03
Death of
John Mizeon
British
Naval Sailor
1848
Death of
George Paynter
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1812-1815
1851/07/09
Death of
James Lillicrap
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1780-1846
NBD1849
1852/02/15
Death of
James Robert Phillips
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1795-1807
1854/02/21
Death of
Aaron Tozer
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1807-1830
1863/10/11
Death of
George Bellamy
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1794-1817
1888/10/18
Death of
Peter Frederick Shortland
British
Service 1842-1881
Sources
ID
Name
Author
Type
B028
Ships of the Royal Navy - Volume I
J. J. Colledge
,
Book
BWAS-1714
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792
Rif Winfield
,
Book
BWAS-1793
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817
Rif Winfield
,
Book
BWM3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol 3
Digital Book
EICS
East India Company Ships
Andrea Cordani
,
Cy Harrison
,
Web Site
NAO
The National Archive - Trafalgar Ancestors
Various
,
Web Site
NBD1849
A Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849
O'Brien
,
Digital Book
ODNB
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press
,
Web Site
ref:1010
Archives départementales du Finistère antérieure à 1790 : Amirauté de Morlaix
Administration
,
Document
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