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Amazon-class Frigate (1773)
The ''Amazon''-class frigates of 1773, made up of 32-gun fifth rates with a main battery of 12-pounder guns. They were designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, John Williams during his employment by the Admiralty.https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=23268 The class comprised eighteen ships; ''Amazon'', ''Ambuscade'' and ''Thetis'' were launched in 1773; the second batch - ''Cleopatra'', ''Amphion'', ''Orpheus'', ''Juno'', ''Success'', ''Iphigenia'', ''Andromache'', '' Syren'', ''Iris'', ''Greyhound'', ''Meleager In Greek mythology, Meleager (, grc-gre, Μελέαγρος, Meléagros) was a hero venerated in his ''temenos'' at Calydon in Aetolia. He was already famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt in the epic tradition that was reworked by Ho ...'', , ''Solebay'', ''Terpsichore'' and ''Blonde'' - were launched in 1779 to 1787 References Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy 1773 ships {{UK-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Hue
Jean-François Hue (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 2 December 1751 to Paris, 26 December 1823) was a French painter, known for marine and landscape paintings. Biography Jean-François Hue entered the Académie Royale in 1782, due to his painting ''Vue prise dans la forêt de Fontainebleau''. Hue was noticed by Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet ... and became the pupil of Gabriel-François Doyen in Paris. He then joined Vernet's workshop, where he painted ''Quatre vues du château de Mousseaux et de ses jardins'' (undated, 74.8 × 85.8 cm). In 1791, the Assemblée Constituante requested he finish the series ''Vues des ports de mer de France'' that Vernet had started in 1753 and left unfinished in 1765. Between 1792 and 1798, he created six painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Williams (Surveyor Of The Navy)
Sir John Williams (1700–c.1784) was a British shipbuilder and designer who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy, the highest position in British naval architecture. Life He was born in 1700 the grandson of a John Williams who designed HMS Crescent in 1642. In 1762 he was a Master Shipwright in Sheerness Dockyard. His only named ship construction is HMS Winchelsea (1764). In June 1765 he was appointed Surveyor to the Navy, working alongside Thomas Slade. This role was based in the Admiralty and involved the master planning of the British fleet and strategic planning of harbour improvements. In April 1778, he was joined at the Admiralty by Edward Hunt. He left in December 1784 his position being filled by John Henslow. Ships designed * Portland-class ship (1766) 50-gun ships * Swan-class ship-sloop (1766) 14-gun sloops of which at least 25 were built *Amazon-class frigate (1770) thirty-three 32-gun frigates launched from 1773 *Enterprise-class frigate (1771) twenty-seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Terpsichore (1785)
HMS ''Terpsichore'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built during the last years of the American War of Independence, but did not see action until the French Revolutionary Wars. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, in a career that spanned forty-five years. ''Terpsichore'' was launched in 1785, but was not prepared for active service until the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793. She was initially sent to serve in the West Indies where in 1794 Captain Richard Bowen took command. Bowen commanded ''Terpsichore'' until his death in 1797, and several of her most memorable exploits occurred during his captaincy. ''Terpsichore'' served mostly in the Mediterranean, capturing three frigates, and in 1797 went as far as to attack the damaged Spanish first rate ''Santísima Trinidad'', as she limped away from the Battle of Cape St Vincent. ''Santísima Trinidad'' mounted 136 guns to ''Terpsichore''s 32, and was the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Meleager (1785)
HMS ''Meleager'' was a 32-gun ''Amazon''-class frigate' that Greaves and Nickolson built in 1785 at the Quarry House yard in Frindsbury, Kent, England.Merrily to Frendsbury-A History of the Parish of Frindsbury. Derek Barnard. Private Pub. City of Rochester Society. post 1994. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars until 1801, when she was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. Career Captain Charles Tyler took command of ''Meleager'' in 1790. In 1793 Lieutenant Thomas Masterman Hardy served aboard her. ''Meleager'' was among the vessels that shared in the capture, on 5 August 1793, cf the ''Prince Royal of Sweden''. ''Meleager'' was part of the fleet under Lord Hood that occupied Toulon in August 1793. With , Robust, and , she covered the landing, on 27 August, of 1500 troops sent to remove the republicans occupying the forts guarding the port. Once the forts were secure, the remainder of Hood's fleet, accompanied by 17 Spanish ships-of-the-line that had just arrived, sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Syren (1782)
HMS ''Syren'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary, and Napoleonic Wars. Among her more famous midshipmen were the future Rear-Admiral Peter Puget, and John Pasco, Nelson's signal officer at the Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 .... References * Frigates of the Royal Navy Ships built in Essex 1782 ships {{UK-mil-ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Andromache (1781)
''HMS Andromache'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1781 and served for 29 years until she was broken up in 1811. Construction ''Andromache'' was ordered on 1 February 1780 and was laid down on June 1780 by William Barnard of Deptford Dockyard. She was launched on 17 November 1781 and was completed by February of the following year. The ship is named after Andromache in Greek mythology. Career West Indies In 1782 under the command of Captain George Anson Byron, ''Andromache'' headed a look-out squadron during the Battle of Saintes. Alongside and , they provided vital information to Admiral Sir George Rodney by reporting all of Comte de Grasse's movements at Fort Royal. Thirteen years later in 1795, ''Andromache'' sailed through a hurricane off Bermuda where she was completely dismasted and suffered severe damage. Mediterranean In 1796 under the command of Charles Manfield, ''Andromache'' engaged a 24-gun Algerine corsair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Iphigenia (1780)
HMS ''Iphigenia'' was a 32–gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1781, and served barely 20 years when she was accidentally lost in a fire at Alexandria in 1801. American War of Independence In 1782, ''Iphigenia'' was sent to the Jamaica station and served there for three years. In 1786, she paid off at Sheerness.http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=0143 Michael Phillips' ships of the old Navy French Revolutionary Wars After returning from Jamaica station, ''Iphigenia'' served on the Milford and Irish stations in the Irish Sea. In response to the French invasion of Belgium in the War of the First Coalition, at the end of 1792, she took part in the Scheldt expedition that was foiled by ice in the estuary. While operating in the English Channel, ''Iphigenia'' captured the French privateer ''Elizabeth'' on 16 February 1793. On 25 November 1793 ''Iphigenia'' and the frigate HMS ''Penelope'' engaged and captured the French 32-gun frigat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Success (1781)
HMS ''Success'' was a 32-gun ''Amazon''-class fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy launched in 1781, which served during the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The French captured her in the Mediterranean on 13 February 1801, but she was recaptured by the British on 2 September. She continued to serve in the Mediterranean until 1811, and in North America until hulked in 1814, then serving as a prison ship and powder hulk, before being broken up in 1820. Ship history The ship, based on a design by Sir John Williams, Surveyor of the Navy, was ordered by the Admiralty on 22 February 1779, and built at Liverpool by John Sutton, being laid down on 8 May 1779, and launched 10 April 1781. Service in the American War ''Success'' was commissioned in March 1781 under the command of Captain Charles Morice Pole, to serve in the American Revolutionary War, where she made several captures. The first, on 12 August 1781, was in company with ''Daphne'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Juno (1780)
HMS ''Juno'' was a Royal Navy 32-gun Amazon-class frigate (1773), ''Amazon''-class fifth rate. This Sailing frigate, frigate served during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary Wars, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Construction and commissioning ''Juno'' was ordered on 21 October 1778 and laid down in December that year at the yards of the shipbuilder Robert Batson & Co, of Limehouse. She was launched on 30 September 1780 and completed by 14 December 1780 that year at Deptford Dockyard. £sd, £8,500 1shilling, s 5pence, d was paid to the builder, with a further £8,184 18s 1d being spent on fitting her out and having her copper sheathing, coppered. Early years ''Juno'' was commissioned under the command of her first captain, James Montagu (Royal Navy officer), James Montagu, in September 1780. Montagu commanded her for the next five years, initially in British waters and the Atlantic. On 10 February 1781 ''Juno'' and the sloop-of-war, sloop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Orpheus (1780)
HMS ''Orpheus'' was a 32–gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1780, and served for more than a quarter of a century, before she was wrecked in 1807. American War of Independence On 14 April 1781, ''Orpheus'' and captured the off the Delaware. The Royal Navy briefly took her into service as HMS ''Confederate''. In March 1782, ''Orpheus'' captured the American letter of marque ''Navarro''. The Royal Navy took her into service as . French Revolutionary Wars 1792 Orpheus sailed to the leeward Island under the command of Captain Henry Newcombe, 1793 sailed to the East Indies. On 5 May 1794, ''Orpheus'' captured the French frigate ''Duguay Trouin'', the former East Indiaman East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ... ''Princess Royal'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Amphion (1780)
HMS ''Amphion'' was a Royal Navy 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the ''Amazon'' class built in Chatham in 1780 which blew up on 22 September 1796. Service On 6 September 1781, a small squadron under the command of ''Amphion''s captain, John Bazely, in conjunction with General Benedict Arnold, completely destroyed the town of New London, Connecticut, together with stores and shipping in the harbour. On 3 January 1782 ''Amphion'' recaptured the British sloop , which the French had captured at the capitulation of Yorktown on 19 October 1781. Sinking On 22 September 1796, ''Amphion'' was completing repairs at Plymouth, England. She was lying alongside a sheer hulk close to the dockyard jetty. Being due to sail the next day, she had more than a hundred relatives and visitors on board in addition to her crew. At about 4 p.m. she exploded without warning, killing 300 out of the 312 aboard. Among the few survivors was her captain, Israel Pellew, who went on to command a ship at the Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cleopatra (1779)
HMS ''Cleopatra'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had a long career, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars she fought two notable engagements with larger French opponents. In the first engagement she was forced to surrender, but succeeded in damaging the French ship so badly that she was captured several days later, while ''Cleopatra'' was retaken. In the second she forced the surrender of a 40-gun frigate. After serving under several notable commanders she was broken up towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Construction ''Cleopatra'' was ordered on 13 May 1778 and was laid down on 6 July 1778 at the yards of James Martin Hillhouse, Bristol. She was launched on 26 November 1779 and had been completed by 9 September 1780. £9,202 (approximately £ at today's prices)was paid to the builder, with another £5,563.1.5d (approximately £ at today's prices)spent on dockyard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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