Benjamin Caldwell
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Admiral Sir Benjamin Caldwell, was a senior and experienced British Royal Navy officer of the eighteenth century. His many victories and achievements were overshadowed by his acrimonious departure fro
Sir Benjamin Caldwell
HMS Impregnable (1786)
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HMS Impregnable was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched on 15 April 1786 at Deptford Dockyard. She was wrecked in 1799 off Spithead.
Benjamin Caldwell
…Caldwell was promoted to rear-admiral, raising his flag in HMS Cumberland. Caldwell moved from the Cumberland after only a short period and took over HMS Impregnable, a 98-gun second rate in the Channel Fleet of Admiral Lord Howe. With the rest of Howe's fleet, Impregnable was present at the Glorious First of June…
HMS Impregnable on 17 August 1789, when King George III visited the ship