Fleet for North America

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Fleet for North America

Ordered to intercept French reinforcements to Canada and to capture or destroy French vessels.

Ship	Left	Notes
Torbay (74)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Charles Colby (c.1701-1771)	Fleet disbanded
Lichfield (50)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Matthew Barton (1716-1795)	Fleet disbanded
Defiance (60)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Thomas Andrews (d.1756)	Fleet disbanded
Nottingham (60)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Samuel Marshall (c.1711-1768)	Fleet disbanded
Anson (60)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Robert Man (1721-1783)	Fleet disbanded
Mars (64)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	John Amherst (1718-1778)	Fleet disbanded
Fougueux (64)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Richard Spry (1715-1775)	Fleet disbanded
Somerset (68)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Francis Geary (1709-1796)	Fleet disbanded
Northumberland (68)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Lord Alexander Colville (7^th Viscount Colville of Culross) (1717-1770)	Fleet disbanded
Monarch (74)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Abraham North (c.1712-1781)	Fleet disbanded
Dunkirk (60)	27.4.1755	4.11.1755	Richard Howe (1725/26-1799)	Fleet disbanded
Yarmouth (64)	21.6.1755	4.11.1755	Harry Norris (d.1764)	Fleet disbanded
Grafton (68)	21.6.1755	4.11.1755	Charles Holmes (1711-1761)	Fleet disbanded
Edinburgh (64)	21.6.1755	4.11.1755	Thomas Stanhope (c.1718-1770)	Fleet disbanded
Chichester (68)	21.6.1755	4.11.1755	John Brett (d.1785)	Fleet disbanded
Terrible (74)	21.6.1755	4.11.1755	William Holburne (c.1711-1760)	Fleet disbanded
Augusta (60)	21.6.1755	4.11.1755	William Saltern Willett (d.1769)	Fleet disbanded

Date	Event	Source
1755/04/27	Sailed from Portsmouth convoying to regiments of foot.
1755/06/21	Terrible (74) joined the fleet
1755/06/21	Chichester (68) joined the fleet
1755/06/21	Edinburgh (64) joined the fleet
1755/06/21	Grafton (68) joined the fleet
1755/06/21	Yarmouth (64) joined the fleet
1755/06/21	Augusta (60) joined the fleet
1755/06/21	Holburne's reinforcements joined off the Banks of Newfoundland
1755/11/04	Anchored at Spithead

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W029Richard Couture, Web Site

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