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See also:KEMPENFELT, See also:RICHARD (1718-1782) , See also:British See also:rear-See also:admiral, was See also:born at See also:Westminster in 1718. His See also:father, a Swede, is said to have been in the service of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James II., and subsequently to have entered the British See also:army. Richard Kempenfelt went into the See also:navy, and saw his first service in the See also:West Indies, taking See also:part in the See also:capture of Portobello. In 1746 he returned to See also:England, and from that date to 1780, when he was made rear-admiral, saw active service in the See also:East Indies with See also:Sir See also:George See also:Pocock and in various quarters of the See also:world. In 1781 he gained, with a vastly inferior force, a brilliant victory, fifty leagues See also:south-west of See also:Ushant, over the See also:French See also:fleet under De See also:Guichen, capturing twenty prizes. In 1782 he hoisted his See also:flag on the " Royal George," which formed part of the fleet under See also:Lord See also:Howe. In See also:August this fleet was ordered to refit at See also:top See also:speed at See also:Portsmouth, and proceed to the See also:relief of See also:Gibraltar. A leak having been located below the waterline of the " Royal George," the See also:vessel was careened to allow of the defect being repaired. According to the version of the disaster favoured by the See also:Admiralty, she was over-turned by a See also:breeze. But the See also:general See also:opinion of the navy was that the shifting of her weights was more than the old and rotten timbers of the " Royal George " could stand. A large piece of her bottom See also:fell out, and she went down at once. It is estimated that not fewer than 800 persons went down with her, for besides the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew there were a large number of tradesmen, See also:women and See also:children on See also:board. Kempenfelt, who was in his See also:cabin, perished with the See also:rest. See also:Cowper's poem, the " Loss of the Royal George," commemorates this disaster. Kempenfelt effected See also:radical alterations and improvements in the signalling See also:system then existing in the British navy. A See also:painting of the loss of the " Royal George " is in the Royal See also:United Service Institution, See also:London.
See See also:Charnock's Biog. See also:Nay., vi. 246, and Ralfe's See also:Naval See also:Biographies, i. 215.
End of Article: KEMPENFELT, RICHARD (1718-1782)
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