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    HMS Elephant was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by George Parsons in Bursledon, Hampshire, and launched on 24 August...
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  • hulked 1709. HMS Elephant (1776) - a 10-gun storeship purchased 1776 and sold 1779. HMS Elephant (1786) - a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1786, reduced to...
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    HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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    Battle of Corunna. He went on to be commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Elephant and captured the United States privateer Swordfish during the War of...
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    conversion. HMS Goliath of 1781 (razeed 1813)[citation needed] HMS Majestic of 1785 (razeed 1813) HMS Saturn of 1786 (razeed 1813) HMS Elephant of 1786 (razeed...
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    to Warsash at the mouth of the River Hamble; this included HMS Elephant launched in 1786, which carried Nelson to the Battle of Copenhagen. Although...
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    population due to its harsh climate and remoteness. Captain James Cook in HMS Resolution made the first landing, survey and mapping of the island, and...
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    transferred his command from the large 98-gun HMS St George to the shallower-draft 74-gun HMS Elephant for this reason. On 30 March, Nelson, and his second-in-command...
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  • escape via her, decided to cut the schooner out. The boats of HMS Bellerophon and HMS Elephant went in during the night of 22 November and captured the schooner...
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  • for her losses. United States first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1786 with J.Scott, master, Mrs Hayley, owner, and trade London–Boston. She had...
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