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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… hence provided with everything they could ask, as boats, guns, and all other necessaries, and here we must observe … of merchantmen and four men-of-war of 40, 36, 28, and 24 guns; they were laden with brass guns for two new ships built at Havre de Grace, and ten sail …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… each stood a gun, mounted upon carriages, and two small guns upon swivels on the side, and 17 men, and to justify …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… by five French men-of-war and privateers (from 50 to 24 guns each), on 18 Oct., 1692, and carried into Bayonne and … by sea. In this port they build ships of from 70 to 80 guns, three being launched when I came away, and three going … and there are nigh on 30 sail of privateers, from 36 guns to 8, which were built here and belong to this port, and …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… to make an estimate of the charge unless I know how many guns must be mounted there. All the force is required towards … hundred pounds will build a fort with two tiers of guns, of about forty pieces of cannon to command the harbour. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… by Sir Robert Holmes, that the said ship had two brass guns of about 1,200 lb., and two iron guns of about 300 lb., a suit of sails, and part of another …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… About 30 pieces of cannon came up to us but the largest guns and mortar pieces are to come by water. An account of … to go to Ireland, of which none are said to exceed 36 guns; against these it is thought advisable to send Shovell's … between Harwich and the Brille, in Holland with six guns, with fittings and stores for their defence; to be …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… who stayed in Dover with a prize laden with 50 copper guns and other ammunition. The vessel is a great flyboat … who was in the company of two great ships of about 40 guns, one a Dane, the other a Swede, at anchor under the … came up with them; they consisted of one man-of-war of 18 guns, and five privateers, a Danish buss, and four English …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… The James galley has brought a French privateer of 18 guns and 150 men into Plymouth, which they took after a … had taken and carried into Kinsale a French manofwar of 50 guns, which is likewise confirmed by letters from Ireland. … they brought the deponent on board their privateer of 22 guns, there being another of 18 guns also in the Bay of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… but hope they did, because it is said a Dutchman of 44 guns from Smyrna, who perished at the same time, had landed … that a French vessel was lately seized by him under the guns of the fort of Yarmouth and condemned as a perquisite of … only remains the Martin prize, of three or four and twenty guns, to convoy the yacht to Chester, and to "protect my …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… would mend. A great man-of-war of Holland, of eighty guns, has lost her foremast and bowsprit: The meeting with … of day we have heard firing both with bombs and great guns. [ H.O. Admiralty 5, p. 628.] July 6. Between Dungeness … two ships off Carrickfergus, one a privateer of thirty-six guns and eight peteraros, and the other a prize she had …