George Vancouver
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Captain George Vancouver was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.
A portrait from the late 18th century by an unknown artist believed to depict George Vancouver
In The Caneing in Conduit Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured Pitt's street corner assault on Vancouver
Vancouver's grave
A statue of George Vancouver in front of Vancouver City Hall
Royal Navy
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The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service.
A late 16th-century portrait of the Spanish Armada battling Royal Navy warships
HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, is still a commissioned Royal Navy ship, although she is now permanently kept in dry-dock.
HMS Warspite and Malaya, seen from Valiant at the Battle of Jutland
Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Devon