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El Diligente (20)
1740-1755
Spanish 20 Gun
Privateer
Packet
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Tomas Varela
Spanish
Naval Sailor
Privateer
Service 1749-1750
Added
Sir William Legge George Hoste (2
nd
Baronet Hoste, of the Navy)
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1830-1866
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Henry Negus Burroughes
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1845
Update
Thomas Edward Hoste
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1810-1828
Update
Sir William Hoste (1
st
Baronet Hoste, of the Navy)
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1798-1824
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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
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Amelia (38)
1796-1816
British 38 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
(1796)
Constitution (12)
1796-1801
British 12 Gun
Hired
Cutter
(1796)
Lord Adam Duncan (1
st
Viscount Duncan of Camperdown)
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1746-1849
Ardent (64)
1796-1824
British 64 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1796)
Daniel Burgess
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1780-1798
La Constance (12)
1797-1798
French 12 Gun
Privateer
Unknown
(1797)
Ganges (74)
1782-1816
British 74 Gun
3rd Rate
Ship of the Line
(1782)
Henry Wickham
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1685-1693
Thomas Camelford
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1797-1799
John Clarke Searle
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1780-1811
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Great Yarmouth
Other Information
Type
:
Port
Location(s)
:
Norfolk -
England
Nationality
:
Great Britain
Offices associated with Great Yarmouth
Impress Service Great Yarmouth
Member of Parliament Great Yarmouth
Events at Great Yarmouth
1610
Birth of
Sir William Goodson
British
Naval Sailor
Ship Owner
Service 1650-1659
ODNB
1653
Launched
Yarmouth (50)
1653-1680
British 50 Gun
4th Rate
Ship of the Line
B028
1654/02/21
Launched
Winsby (44)
1654-1691
British 44 Gun
4th Rate
Ship of the Line
1660 Renamed "Happy Return"
B028
1654/02/23
Launched
Colchester (24)
1654-1667
British 24 Gun
5th Rate
Ship
B028
1666/03/21
Launched
Sweepstakes (36)
1666-1698
British 36 Gun
5th Rate
Ship
B028
1671
Launched
Advance Frigate (Unknown)
1671-1673
British Unknown Gun
Merchant
East Indiaman
EICS
1674/09
Launched
Rose (28)
1674-1698
British 28 Gun
5th Rate
Frigate
B028
1771/01/11
Birth of
Abdiel Orfeur
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1801
1779/11/28
Birth of
Charles Cumby
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1790-1813
1791/10/06
Death of
Jay Bracey
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1750-1771
1804/04/26
Launched
Helena (16)
1804-1814
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1804/10
Launched
Salamander (4)
1804-1807
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Fireship
BWAS-1793
1804/11
Launched
Wildfire (Unknown)
1804-1807
British Unknown Gun
Unrated
Fire Vessel
BWAS-1793
1805/04/27
Launched
Redbreast (12)
1805-1850
British 12 Gun
Unrated
Gun-brig
BWAS-1793
1805/07/25
Launched
Havock (12)
1805-1834
British 12 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1805/07/29
Launched
Sparrow (16)
1805-1816
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1806/04/11
Launched
Woodcock (4)
1806-1807
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Schooner
BWAS-1793
1806/04/12
Launched
Cuckoo (4)
1806-1810
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Schooner
BWAS-1793
1806/04/12
Launched
Wagtail (4)
1806-1807
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Schooner
BWAS-1793
1806/04/19
Launched
Ariel (16)
1806-1816
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1806/04/26
Launched
Crane (4)
1806-1808
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Schooner
BWAS-1793
1806/04/26
Launched
Quail (4)
1806-1816
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Schooner
BWAS-1793
1806/04/26
Launched
Pigeon (4)
1806-1809
British 4 Gun
Unrated
Schooner
BWAS-1793
1806/08/30
Launched
Hyacinth (18)
1806-1820
British 18 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1806/10/11
Launched
Pandora (16)
1806-1811
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1806/12/27
Launched
Procris (16)
1806-1815
British 16 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1808/03/30
Launched
Racoon (18)
1808-1838
British 18 Gun
Unrated
Sloop
BWAS-1793
1815/11/15
Death of
Abdiel Orfeur
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1801
1834/03/03
Launched
Havock (12)
1834-1859
British 12 Gun
Unrated
Brig
BWAS-1793
1847/12/24
Death of
Sir George Parker
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1782-1837
1858/03/04
Death of
Sir Eaton Stannard Travers
British
Naval Sailor
Service 1798-1855
Sources
ID
Name
Author
Type
B028
Ships of the Royal Navy - Volume I
J. J. Colledge
,
Book
BWAS-1793
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817
Rif Winfield
,
Book
EICS
East India Company Ships
Andrea Cordani
,
Cy Harrison
,
Web Site
ODNB
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford University Press
,
Web Site
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British 38 Gun
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Service 1746-1849
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1796-1824
British 64 Gun
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British
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