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Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl Of Cassilis
Captain Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis (1720 – 30 December 1794) was a Scottish peer who lived in the English colony of New York which became part of the United States. Early life Kennedy, who lived in New York City at 1 Broadway in the Kennedy mansion, was the son of Archibald Kennedy (1685–1763) and Maria (née Walter) Schuyler Kennedy (1689–1764). He was born in 1720. His mother, a daughter of mayor Robert Walter and Catharine Leisler (a daughter of New York colonial governor Jacob Leisler, known for his role in Leisler's Rebellion), was briefly married, and widowed, to Arent Schuyler before her marriage to his father. His father, a direct descendant of the second son of Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis, died in 1763. Career Having joined the Royal Navy, Kennedy passed his exam for the rank of lieutenant on 11 December 1744 and was promoted five days later. He was appointed to serve on the 14-gun sloop HMS ''Otter'', which he did until 29 February of ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mather Brown
Mather Brown (baptized October 11, 1761 – May 25, 1831) was an American painter who was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was active in England. Early life Brown was the son of Gawen and Elizabeth (Byles) Brown, and descended from the Rev. Increase Mather on his mother's side. He was taught by his aunt and around 1773 (age 12) became a pupil of Gilbert Stuart. He arrived in London in 1781 to further his training in Benjamin West's studio, entered the Royal Academy schools in 1782 with plans to be a miniature painter, and began to exhibit a year later. Painting career In 1784, he painted two religious paintings for the church of St. Mary’s-in-the-Strand, which led Brown to found a partnership with the painter Daniel Orme for the commercialization of these and other works through exhibition and the sale of engravings. Among these were large paintings of scenes from English history, as well as scenes from Shakespeare's plays. However, despite their success he began to con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Halifax (1756)
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Halifax'', after the English town of Halifax, West Yorkshire and the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. * HMS ''Halifax'' (1756) was a 22-gun sloop launched in 1756 and captured by the French in the same year at Oswego * was a 6-gun schooner built 1765, purchased in 1768 and wrecked in 1775 * HMS Halifax (1775) was a schooner purchased in 1775 and sold 1780. She may have been the previous ''Halifax'', salvaged and returned to service. * was an 18-gun sloop, originally , built 1777, renamed after the capture of ''Ranger'' on 11 May 1780; sold in 1781 * HMS ''Halifax'' (1782) was a 10-gun schooner purchased in 1782 and sold in 1784 * was a 12-gun brig, the former French privateer ''Marie'' that the Royal Navy captured in 1797, commissioned in 1801, and sold that same year. She became the mercantile ''Halifax''. * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 at Halifax, Nova Scotia and broken up in 1814 See also * Ships of the Royal Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culzean Castle
Culzean Castle ( , see yogh; sco, Cullain) is a castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, Carrick, in South Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The clifftop castle lies within the Culzean Castle Country Park and is opened to the public. From 1972 until 2015, an illustration of the castle was featured on the reverse side of five pound notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland. As of 2021, the castle was available for rent. History Culzean Castle was constructed as an L-plan castle by order of the 10th Earl of Cassilis. He instructed the architect Robert Adam to rebuild a previous, but more basic, structure into a fine country house to be the seat of his earldom. The castle was built in stages between 1777 and 1792. It incorporates a large drum tower with a circular saloon inside (which overlooks the sea), a grand oval staircase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kennedy, 10th Earl Of Cassilis
David Kennedy, 10th Earl of CassilisMurphy, Alan. Footprint: Scotland, 3rd Ed. Bath, UK: Footprint, 2004. 230. (bef. 1734 – 18 December 1792), was a Scottish peer, the third son of Sir John Kennedy, 2nd Baronet by Jean Douglas. He succeeded to the titles of 10th Earl of Cassilis, 12th Lord Kennedy and 5th Baronet Kennedy on 30 November 1775 on the death of his elder brother Thomas, the 9th Earl, who had died without male issue. He held the office of representative peer of Scotland from 1776 to 1790. It was the 10th Earl who ordered the rebuilding of Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast. Lord Cassilis never married, and the baronetcy became extinct on his death; the other titles passed to a distant cousin, Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis, who lived in New York. References Earls of Cassilis 1792 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1768–1774 Year of birth uncertain Place of birth missing Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper New York Bay
New York Harbor is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States. It is one of the largest natural harbors in the world, and is frequently named the best natural harbor in the world. It is also known as Upper New York Bay, which is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne. The name may also refer to the entirety of New York Bay including Lower New York Bay. Although the United States Board on Geographic Names does not use the term, ''New York Harbor'' has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages. Overview The harbor is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal. It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Island
Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886. The island also contains the Statue of Liberty Museum, which opened in 2019 and exhibits the statue's original torch. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Part of New York (state), New York State, the island is an exclave of the New York City Boroughs of New York City, borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Liberty Island became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1937 through Presidential Proclamation 2250, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1966, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of Statue of Liberty National Monument, Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America And West Indies Station
The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 to 1956. The North American Station was separate from the Jamaica Station until 1830 when the two combined to form the North America and West Indies Station. It was briefly abolished in 1907 before being restored in 1915. It was renamed the America and West Indies Station in 1926. It was commanded by Commanders-in-Chief whose titles changed with the changing of the formation's name, eventually by the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station. History The squadron was formed in 1745 to counter French forces in North America, with the headquarters at the Halifax Naval Yard in Nova Scotia (now CFB Halifax). The area of command had first been designated as the North American Station in 1767, under the command of Commodore Samuel Hood, with the headquarters in Halifax from 1758 to 1794, and thereafter in Halifax and Bermu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Coventry (1757)
HMS ''Coventry'' was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1757 and in active service as a privateer hunter during the Seven Years' War, and as part of the British fleet in India during the Anglo-French War. After seventeen years' in British service she was captured by the French in 1783, off Ganjam in the Bay of Bengal. Thereafter she spent two years as part of the French Navy until January 1785 when she was removed from service at the port of Brest. She was broken up in 1786. Design Sir Thomas Slade designed ''Coventry'' "to the draught of the ''Tartar'' with such alterations withinboard as may be judged necessary", making her a further development of . A further twelve ships were built to the draught of ''Coventry'' between 1756 and 1763, as well as another five to a modified version of fir (pine) construction. The vessel was named after the city of Coventry in England's West Midlands. In selecting her name the Board of Admiralty continued a traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Blonde (1760)
HMS ''Blonde'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate warship of the British Royal Navy captured from the French in 1760. The ship wrecked on Blonde Rock with American prisoners on board. An American privateer captain, Daniel Adams, rescued the American prisoners and let the British go free. The captain's decision created an international stir. Upon returning to Boston, the American privateer was banished for letting go the British crew and he and his family became Loyalist refugees in Nova Scotia. Career On 24 February 1760, during the Seven Years' War, a British squadron, under Captain John Elliot (Royal Navy officer), John Elliot in , met a French squadron under Captain François Thurot, who was aboard the . In the subsequent Battle of Bishops Court, the British captured ''Maréchal de Belleisle'' (after Thurot was killed), , and ''Blonde''. The Royal Navy took the latter two into service. It was named for its figurehead (ship), figurehead, in the form of a "large and shapely female in extr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Quebec (1760)
Three ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Quebec'', after the city of Quebec in Canada: Ships * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1760 and blown up in action with French in 1779. * was a schooner purchased in 1775 and wrecked later that year. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1781 and broken up in 1816. Shore establishments * was a combined training centre (No 1 CTC) at Inveraray between 1940 and 1946. Now Argyll Caravan Site. * HMS ''Quebec II'' was the headquarters of the commanding officer of the northern patrol and Combined Operations Staff Officer Training Centre at Hollywood Hotel in Largs Largs ( gd, An Leargaidh Ghallda) is a town on the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland, about from Glasgow. The original name means "the slopes" (''An Leargaidh'') in Scottish Gaelic. A popular seaside resort with a pier, the town mark ... between 1941 and 1942. See also * * * , subsequently , originally MV ''Port Quebec' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid On St Malo
The Raid on St Malo took place in June 1758 when an amphibious British naval expedition landed close to the French port of St Malo in Brittany. While the town itself was not attacked, as had been initially planned, the British destroyed large amounts of shipping before re-embarking a week later. The naval forces were under the command of Richard Howe while the army was led by the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Sackville. Background As part of an effort to provide a diversion in support of Britain's German Allies, William Pitt had conceived the idea of a series of naval descents, or amphibious attacks. In 1757 a large expedition was sent to Rochefort where it captured an offshore island, but failed to make an attack on the town itself before returning home. Pitt believed that the failure was due to insufficient vigour by the expedition's commanders, and planned to launch further expeditions against the French coast in the coming year. Raid By early 1758 the British cabinet p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Flamborough (1756)
Three vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Flamborough'', after the English town: * was a 24-gun post ship launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1697 and captured by the French ship ''Jason'' near Cape Spartel on 10 October 1705. * was a 24-gun post ship launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 29 January 1707. It was rebuilt as a 20-gun post ship in 1727 at Portsmouth and sold on 10 January 1748. * was a 20-gun post ship launched at Limehouse on 14 May 1756 and sold on 23 September 1772. See also * * * ''Empire Flamborough ''Bulgaria'' was a cargo ship that was built as ''Empire Flamborough'' in 1945 by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom for the Ministry of Transport (MoT). She was sold to Norway in 1946 and renamed ''Vindeg ...'', the Empire ship Flamborough References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flamborough, HMS Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
