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  2. List of ship launches in 1801 - Wikipedia

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    British Hero: Merchantman: For private owner. Unknown date United Kingdom: Nicholas Bools & William Good Bridport: Cato: Schooner: For Mr. Lambden. [32] Unknown date United Kingdom: William Rowe Newcastle upon Tyne: City of London: West Indiaman: For Fenn & Co. Unknown date New South Wales: Thomas Moore King's Dockyard, Sydney: Cumberland: Schooner

  3. Transport vessels for the British expedition to the Red Sea ...

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    Gibson, master; north of Jiddah between January 1801 and June 1802 [5] Expedition: 70 Fancy brig 125 / 100 Fortune: 182 Ketch; Jolliffe, master; near Mt. Agerib between January 1801 and June 1802 [5] Friendship: 400 Rangoon Friendship: 872 Demaun, 1794 [6] Fyze Allum: 700 Baird, master; Cape Orfin (or Cape Orsoy) on the coast of Africa, [5] 7 ...

  4. Baker rifle - Wikipedia

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    The Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle, better known as the Baker rifle, was a flintlock rifle designed by English gunsmith Ezekiel Baker and used by the British Armed Forces from 1801 to 1837. First seeing action during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , it was the first British-made firearm to be issued as a service rifle to all soldiers ...

  5. 1801 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    8 March – Second Battle of Abukir: a British Army under Ralph Abercromby defeats the French troops. [1] 10 March – The first British census is carried out. The count is conducted by clergy, overseers of the poor and schoolmasters. The population of England and Wales is determined to be 8.9 million, [4] with London revealed to have 860,035 ...

  6. Atlas (1801 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Under Brooks's command, between 1801 and 1803 Atlas sailed for the East India Company on a voyage that first had her carrying convicts from Ireland to Port Jackson, and then going on to China, before returning to England. Atlas left Deptford on 16 July 1801, and Blackwall on 20 August. She reached Waterford on 19 September and Cork four days later.

  7. List of single-ship actions - Wikipedia

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    1801, April – British merchantman Union Island repels a Spanish privateer; 1801, May – French privateer captures the British merchantman Union Island; 1801, May 6 – HMS Speedy captures Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo * 1801, June 14 – Liverpool privateer General Keppel repels French privateer Mouche

  8. Raid on Boulogne - Wikipedia

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    The Raid on Boulogne in 1804 was a naval assault by elements of the Royal Navy on the fortified French port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, during the Napoleonic Wars.It differed from the conventional tactics of naval assaults of the period by utilizing a wide range of new equipment produced by the American inventor Robert Fulton, with the backing of the Admiralty.

  9. First Battle of Algeciras - Wikipedia

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    The First Battle of Algeciras was a naval battle fought on 6 July 1801 (17 messidor an IX of the French Republican Calendar) between a squadron of British Royal Navy ships of the line and a smaller French Navy squadron at anchor in the fortified Spanish port of Algeciras in the Strait of Gibraltar.