A second village was started at Ball Bay, named after the captain of HMS Supply, Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball.

* February 17 – The uninhabited Lord Howe Island is discovered by the brig HMS Supply, commanded by Lieutenant Ball, who is on his way from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island with convicts to start a penal settlement there.

In October 1857 Newton carried blocks of marble from this site by the HMS Supply and landed them in Malta.

The first reported sighting of Lord Howe Island was on 17 February 1788 when Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, commander of the Armed Tender HMS Supply was on its way from Botany Bay to found a penal settlement on Norfolk Island.

Lt Henry Lidgbird Ball, Commander of HMS Supply

The first reported European sighting of Lord Howe Island was on 17 February 1788 when Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, commander of the Armed Tender HMS Supply ( the oldest and smallest of the First Fleet ships ) was on its way from Botany Bay with a cargo of 15 convicts ( 9 male, 6 female ) to found a penal settlement on Norfolk Island.

Many names on the island date from this time, and also from May of the same year when the island was visited by four ships of the First Fleet, HMS Supply, Charlotte, Lady Penrhyn and Scarborough when much of the plant and animal life was first recorded in the journals and diaries of visitors like David Blackburn, Master of the Supply.

In December 1798, a half-moon battery was constructed at the extreme northern end of the Point, mounted with guns from HMS Supply.

His old foe and trading partner John Macarthur attended the funeral, as did Henry Ball, commander of the First Fleet vessel HMS Supply.

Lucas was aboard the HMS Supply, which arrived at Norfolk on March 6, 1788.

The First Fleet ship HMS Supply carrying Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay on 18 January 1788.

Image: PhillipsBay5. JPG | Memorial to HMS Supply anchoring in Yarra Bay in 1788, Bicentennial Park

* 18 January – HMS Supply of the First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay.

* 17 February – Lord Howe Island is discovered by HMS Supply.

* 17 April – In order to replenish the supplies lost with the Sirius, Phillip sends the colony's only remaining ship ( HMS Supply ) to Batavia.

* 18 October – HMS Supply returns from Batavia with more supplies.

On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.

On April 22 of that year, the HMS Seahorse arrived from the West Indies carrying smallpox on board.

The Royal Family and the beleaguered and demoralized Norwegian Government was evacuated from Tromsø on 7 June aboard HMS Devonshire ; and after a dash, under cover of HMS Glorious, HMS Acasta, and HMS Ardent, safely arrived in London.

The following month, British Captain Augustus Harvey, in command of the HMS Viper, arrived in the area and battled with the Mi ’ kmaq.

His body arrived in Lisbon on 2 August 1932, on board the British cruiser HMS Concord which had made the journey from England and sailed into the Tagus River to deliver the coffin of the former King.

The remaining vessels formed Cradock ’ s west coast squadron which was reinforced by HMS Canopus which finally arrived on 18 October.

Not quite 18, the young prince arrived in Greece with 3, 500 Bavarian troops and three Bavarian advisors aboard the British frigate HMS Madagascar.

A collapse in the sea otter population and the imminent possibility of British seizure of Astoria during the War of 1812 led to its sale to the North West Company in 1813, resulting in an awkward situation when HMS Racoon and its Captain Black arrived and went through a ceremony of possession, even though the fort was already ostensibly a British possession.

He then arrived in Boston on 13 May 1774, having been carried there by the HMS Lively.

HMS X20 and HMS X23 arrived in position on 4 June and, due to the delay caused by bad weather, remained in position until 4: 30am on 6 June ( D-Day ) when they surfaced, erected the navigational aids, an 18-foot telescopic mast with a light shining to seaward, a radio beacon and echo sounder tapping out a message for the minelayers approaching ' Sword ' and ' Juno ' beaches.

Another Royal Navy cruiser, HMS Niobe, became the second ship commissioned into the Canadian navy on September 6, 1910, at Devonport in England and arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 21, 1910 — Trafalgar Day.

Hunter arrived at Sydney on 7 September 1795 on HMS Reliance and took up the office of governor on 11 September 1795.

Pound dispatched HMS Repulse and diverted HMS Emerald to Haifa, which arrived the same day and landed five platoons, one to each police district.

He arrived in Sydney in New South Wales on HMS Reliance on 7 September 1795.

In September 1874, HMS Rosario ( under the command of Captain Dupuis ) arrived to investigate the claims against Hayes.

When the new King Otto arrived in the Greek capital, Nafplion, in 1832 aboard the British warship HMS Madagascar, the Greek fleet consisted of 1 corvette, 3 brigs, 6 gollettes, 2 gunboats, 2 steamboats and a few more small vessels.

* 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England ( Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage ).

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

Captain Hume of HMS Scarborough reported on 6 February that a " Pyrate Ship of 36 Guns and 250 men, and a Sloop of 10 Guns and 100 men were Said to be Cruizing amongst the Leeward Islands ".

On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.

His scouts, HMS Alexander and HMS Swiftsure, discovered the French transport fleet at Alexandria on the afternoon of 1 August.

At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

The next three British ships, Vanguard in the lead followed by HMS Minotaur and HMS Defence, remained in line of battle formation and anchored on the starboard side of the French line at 18: 40.

With the French vanguard now heavily outnumbered, the following British ships HMS Bellerophon and HMS Majestic passed by the melee and advanced on the so far unengaged French centre.

* A photographic record of aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable, 1944 – 45, including Operation Iceberg, the attack on the Sakashimas

In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.

The wreck involved nine British merchant vessels and their naval escort, the frigate HMS Convert, that ran aground on the reefs off Grand Cayman.

Lyell asked Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, to search for erratic boulders on the survey voyage of the Beagle, and just before it set out FitzRoy gave Darwin Volume 1 of the first edition of Lyell's Principles.

The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839.

* 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.