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John Hutt (Royal Navy officer)

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exchanged shots with a number of French ships. The engagement was inconclusive but Hutt was grievously wounded by a cannonball that took off one of his legs. During the main engagement four days later, Hutt was below decks in the ship's sick bay.
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a few days after the battle and, despite his serious injury, doctors indicated that he was likely to make a full recovery. Unfortunately, a few days later, infection set into the wound and Hutt died on 30 June 1794 as a result. Along with
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was heavily engaged at the action of 1 June 1794, Hutt was in no position to command her. On 29 May, as the fleets manoeuvered into position for the main engagement, the French fleet attempting to draw the British away from the convoy,
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was heavily engaged in the action and in celebration of his career and death, a monument was raised to him and the other dead Royal Navy captains of the battle.
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who had commanded Hutt in the West Indies and now personally requested him for this prestigious command. Hutt joined Gardner in the West Indies and
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in 1773. The ship was stationed on the North American Station and Hutt moved between ships rapidly during his service there, joining
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The French captured Hutt and he remained in their hands until November 1781 when he was returned to England on
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in 1793. A few months later, Gardner's squadron was attached to the Channel Fleet and with that horse, under
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to observe the Spanish fleet and he brought the news to England that the Spanish had returned to
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John Hutt was born in 1746 but did not begin a naval career until relatively late, becoming a
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in short order. Hutt later joined the fleet in the West Indies. In June 1780 Admiral
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At the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars Hutt gained command of the 98-gun
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and died in 1794 from severe wounds received during the battle of the
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gave thanks to those captains who had died in the action.
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was involved in the first unsuccessful attempt to capture
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and after the peace, in 1783, he received promotion to
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Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War
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Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars
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who had died of wounds on the same day as Hutt, and
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The Harvey & Hutt memorial in Westminster Abbey
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Ernest Gustave Girardot
Spithead
Hampshire
Kingdom of Great Britain
Royal Navy
Captain
HMS Antigua
HMS Trimmer
HMS Camilla
HMS Lizard
HMS Queen
American Revolutionary War
Invasion of Tobago
POW
Nootka Crisis
French Revolutionary Wars
Action of 29 May 1794
DOW
Glorious First of June
Sir William Hutt
Sir George Hutt
John Hutt
Captain
Royal Navy
American Revolutionary War
Glorious First of June
French Revolutionary Wars
HMS Queen
Hutt Island

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