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HMS Robust (1764)

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54: 335: 265: 221: 660: 33: 331:, she covered the landing, on 27 August, of 1500 troops sent to remove the republicans occupying the forts guarding the port. Once the forts were secure, the remainder of Hood's fleet, accompanied by 17 Spanish ships-of-the-line which had just arrived, sailed into the harbour. 455:, Vol 1, 1987, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland there was also a screw second rate laid down on 10 October 1859, but work was suspended 10 October 1861 and the ship cancelled 1872. In volume 2 of this book is described another vessel named HMS 423:
lost 92 officers, seamen and troops killed, including her first captain, and 62 seamen and troops wounded. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "21 JULY BOAT SERVICE 1801" to surviving claimants from the action.
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The Hoche was captured by Sir John Warren, in HMS Robust, on 12th October 1798 and was towed by HMS Doris into Lough Swilly, County Donegal, Ireland
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placed herself in the Goulet and thereby prevented the French from bringing reinforcements by boat to
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The action was a sanguinary one. The British lost 11 men killed, 57 wounded, and one missing;
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The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.
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was employed on harbour service from 1812, and was broken up in 1817.
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Captain Alexander Hood, her commander at the Battle of Ushant in 1778
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The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume I, 1793–1796
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succeeded in boarding and cutting out the French naval
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Index

HMS Robust

Great Britain
Ramillies-class
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
QD
Fc

third-rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
John Barnard
Harwich

Battle of Ushant
Palliser
Alexander Hood
court martial
Keppel
Lord Hood
Toulon
HMS Courageux
Meleager
Tartar
Egmont

Hoche
John Warren

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