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HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She sank at Spithead on 29 August 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives. This is one of six ratings (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ...
Ships of the line were 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-rated ships in the rating system of the Royal Navy. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
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Jump to: navigation, search August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ...
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She was laid down at the Woolwich Dockyard in 1746 as Royal Anne and renamed Royal George before being launched on 18 February 1756. At her launch she was the largest warship in the world. She served in the Seven Years' War, spending much of the war as the flagship of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke in his blockade of the French fleet at Brest. She was Hawke's flagship in the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759 where she sank the French ship Superbe. Woolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship Henri Grace a Dieu (Great Harry), the largest ship of its day. ...
Jump to: navigation, search February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Seven Years War (1754 and 1756–1763) pitted Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. ...
Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, (February 21, 1705 - October 16, 1781) was an admiral in the Royal Navy. ...
Location within France Brest, at the tip of Brittany Brest (population of the city: 146,000 inhabitants as of 2004 estimates; population of the metropolitan area: 303,484 inhabitants as of 1999 census) is a city in the Bretagne région, north-west France, subprefecture of the Finistère d...
The naval Battle of Quiberon Bay took place on 20 November 1759 during the Seven Years War in Quiberon Bay, off the coast of France near St. ...
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She was laid up from 1763 to 1778, when she was recommissioned to serve in the American Revolutionary War. Jump to: navigation, search The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. ...
On 28 August 1782, Royal George, under the command of Richard Kempenfelt, was preparing to sail with a fleet commanded by Admiral Richard Howe to Gibraltar. The ships were anchored at Spithead to take on supplies. Royal George was being heeled at an angle to allow for minor repairs below the waterline, while rum casks were being loaded aboard at the same time. It is believed that during these operations the lower deck gunports were not properly secured, causing an inrush of water. The ship rolled over rapidly and sank, taking with her around 800 people, including up to 300 women and 60 children who were visiting the ship in harbour. Jump to: navigation, search August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ...
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Richard Kempenfelt (1718 - August 1782) was a British rear-admiral. ...
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (March 8, 1726 – August 5, 1799) was a British admiral. ...
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A court martial failed to attribute blame and acquitted the officers and crew (many of whom had perished), blaming the accident on the "general state of decay of her timbers." Jump to: navigation, search A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military law. ...
The incident remains the worst single peace time disaster in the history of the British Royal Navy.
The wreck of the Royal George was investigated in one of the earliest uses of hard hat diving techniques. The wreck, which was close to the site of the Mary Rose, was destroyed with explosives in the early 1840s. Jump to: navigation, search The Mary Rose depicted on the Anthony Roll, a survey of Henry VIIIs navy, completed in 1546 The Mary Rose was a carrack of 78 guns (91 guns after 1536), built in Portsmouth, England, in 1509–1510, thought to be named after King Henry VIII...
See also The first and most famous HMS Royal George was a First-rate Ship of the Line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756. ...
List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which occurred in the United Kingdom or involved UK citizens, in a definable incident, where the loss of life exceeded 40. ...
References - David Hepper, British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859 (1994)
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