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HMS Shannon: Ordered: 18 April 1757: Builder: Deptford Dockyard: Laid down: 11 May 1757: Launched: 17 August 1757: Completed: 8 October 1757: Commissioned: August 1757: Fate: Taken to pieces at Portsmouth December 1765: General characteristics; Class and type: 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate: Tons burthen: 587 53 ⁄ 94 bm: Length: 118 ...
HMS Shannon (1757) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757 and broken up 1765. HMS Shannon (1796) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1796 and sold in 1802. HMS Shannon (1803) was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in September 1803. She had been intended to be called HMS Pallas, but was renamed in 1802 before being launched. She ran ashore ...
HMS Boreas 1757 – sold 1770. HMS Hussar 1757 – stranded on the south coast of Cuba and taken by France 1762. HMS Shannon 1757 – broken up 1765. HMS Trent 1757 – sold 1764; HMS Actaeon 1757 – sold 1766; modified Coventry class slightly modified (8½ inch greater width) revival of the Coventry design HMS Hind 1785 – broken up 1811
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HMS Shannon (1757) HMS Southampton (1757) French ship Souverain (1757) T. HMS Trent (1757) V. HMS Vengeance (1758) HMS Vestal (1757) This page was last edited on 10 ...
Thomas was possibly the second son of Robert and Mary Pollard who was Christened at St Clements Hastings on 4 August 1731(vital. England births and christenings) Robert was possibly the shipwright who had contracted a lease from Hastings corporation for 15 years in 1727 (East Sussex record office HAS/E/A/B/14. and later in 1747 is recorded as a shipwright of Hastings buying oak trees to the ...
Royal Navy Burial Ground – Gravestones for USS Chesapeake (left) and HMS Shannon (right) The Royal Navy Burying Ground at Halifax has monuments to those served and lost in the medical facility as a result of the capture of USS Chesapeake by HMS Shannon. There are 84 grave markers, but as many as 500 people buried there. [10]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, GCB (12 April 1791 – 13 February 1892) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, following the capture of USS Chesapeake by the frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812, the wounding of HMS Shannon ' s captain and the death of her first lieutenant in the action, he served as the temporary captain of HMS Shannon as she returned to ...