Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement, 第 4 卷R. Faulder, 1796 |
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... ship he was ordered immediately for Jamaica ; on which station he commanded as fenior officer , with a fmall fquadron , till the arrival of Mr. Vernon at the latter end of the year 1739. Previous , however , to this taking place , the ...
... ship he was ordered immediately for Jamaica ; on which station he commanded as fenior officer , with a fmall fquadron , till the arrival of Mr. Vernon at the latter end of the year 1739. Previous , however , to this taking place , the ...
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... ship could get to its proper station and was brought to an anchor , it feemed , in an inftant , as Campbell expreffes himself , a cloud of per- petual thunder , and appeared to the rest of the fleet to be all on fire . This may eafily ...
... ship could get to its proper station and was brought to an anchor , it feemed , in an inftant , as Campbell expreffes himself , a cloud of per- petual thunder , and appeared to the rest of the fleet to be all on fire . This may eafily ...
第 8 頁
... ship was not in a condition to proceed on that fervice by the time the fleet failed . His next command appears to have been that of the Dartmouth , which , as well as the former , was a fourth rate of fifty guns . In this ship he ...
... ship was not in a condition to proceed on that fervice by the time the fleet failed . His next command appears to have been that of the Dartmouth , which , as well as the former , was a fourth rate of fifty guns . In this ship he ...
第 9 頁
... ship he was captain of . Although we believe him to have had many appointments in the intermediate time , yet we find no mention whatever made of him till the year 1718 , when he commanded the Guernsey , of fifty guns , one of the ...
... ship he was captain of . Although we believe him to have had many appointments in the intermediate time , yet we find no mention whatever made of him till the year 1718 , when he commanded the Guernsey , of fifty guns , one of the ...
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... ship's guns . The French seeing these cautious , and at the fame deter- mined preparations , were too timid to resist any longer ; they demanded quarter and furrendered the fhip on the fingle condition of being fet on fhore . The fpirit ...
... ship's guns . The French seeing these cautious , and at the fame deter- mined preparations , were too timid to resist any longer ; they demanded quarter and furrendered the fhip on the fingle condition of being fet on fhore . The fpirit ...
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