HMS Boyne was a 98-gun Royal Navy second-rate ship of the line launched on 27 July 1790 at Woolwich. She was the flagship of Vice Admiral John Jervis...
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1704. HMS Boyne (1766) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1766 and broken up in 1783. HMS Boyne (1790) was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1790. She...
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Boyne-class ships of the line were a class of two 98-gun second rates, ordered in 1783 and designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt. HMS Boyne Builder:...
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been named HMS Queen Charlotte after Charlotte, queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom. The first HMS Queen Charlotte (1790) was a first...
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Thompson was born circa 1769. He was made a lieutenant in 1790, serving on the 98-gun HMS Boyne at the attack on Pointe-à-Pitre on Guadeloupe, the Caribbean...
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Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet (category British MPs 1784–1790)
ship of the line HMS Boyne, at the beginning of the Spanish Armament on 18 August 1790. The crisis having abated, Bowyer left Boyne on 10 January 1791;...
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on 4 November 1790, and served successively on HMS Orestes, HMS Royal Sovereign, and HMS Boyne. It was while he was a lieutenant on Boyne that Preston...
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20 October 1790. During the next five years he was mainly employed in the West Indies. Early in 1795 he came home in the 98-gun HMS Boyne, bearing the...
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anchored in the Solent. She had been at Spithead on 1 May, when the 98-gun HMS Boyne caught fire and blew up, with Bellerophon rescuing twelve men. Still with...
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by both population and area. It is the last bridging point on the River Boyne before it enters the Irish Sea. The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Newgrange...
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