Trying to decipher a Naval record for ancestor

[janan]

Try 'HMS Diadem' for the first ship.

Carol

Yes I think that's it - can see it now you've suggested it

Jan

[mrs.tenacious]

Hi Pam,

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Mrs. T. x

[Pam54]

Hi Neil, Jan and Carol,
Thanks so much for your suggestions and your time.  I am most grateful.  A friend has suggested that GCB could be good conduct badge so that is another possibility.
Pam

[Einepyk]

The second ship could be the first HMS Implacable -  launched in 1795 as the French ship Duguay-Trouin and captured by the British in 1805. Renamed Implacable, she was scuttled in 1949.
Steve

[Pam54]

Thanks very much for your suggestion.

[Einepyk]

... and the fourth ship is possibly HMS Ocean built in 1862...

[Einepyk]

...and, HMS Rattler, launched in 1862 and wrecked in 1868, is possibly the next boat on the list.

[Pam54]

Thanks for your help.  I think his list of ships is Diadem, Implacable, Severn, Ocean, Rattler and Minotaur.   Fascinating that we have access to all this information.

[Neil Todd]

Well with a list of good/very good referances the friends suggestion of Good Conduct seems the most plausible, doesn't it

Neil