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HMS Windsor Castle (1790)

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the British encountered a Turkish squadron of one ship of 64 guns, four frigates and eight other vessels, most of which they ran aground. Marines from
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had four men killed and 20 wounded in the withdrawal. In all, the British lost 29 killed and 138 wounded. No ship was lost.
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The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV.
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fired on the British squadron. Granite cannonballs weighing 7-800 pounds and measuring 6'6" in circumference hit
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was badly damaged when an 800-pound stone shot from a Turkish cannon sheared off her main mast.
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On 25 September a French squadron of five frigates and two corvettes under Commodore
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She was reduced to a 74-gun ship in 1814, and was eventually broken up in 1839.
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The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.
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suffered seven men wounded while forcing the Dardanelles. Near a redoubt on
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Memoires of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, K.C. B., & c., Volume 2,
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was escorting a convoy ferrying supplies and troops to the
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A seaman's share of the prize money was worth £4 4s 4d.
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in 1805. She shared in the prize and head money for
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HMS Windsor Castle

Great Britain
Naval Battle of Genoa (1795)
Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)
London-class
ship of the line
bm
Full-rigged ship
second-rate
ship of the line
Royal Navy
Deptford Dockyard
Robert Calder
Battle of Cape Finisterre
Eleonore-Jean-Nicolas Soleil
French West Indies
action of 25 September 1806
Thétis
Sylphe
Lynx

Vice Admiral
John Duckworth
Dardanelles Operation
Point Pesquies
Pompee
Royal Marine
Abydos
Standard

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