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Ballahoo-class Schooner
The ''Ballahoo'' class (also known as the Fish class) was a Royal Navy class of eighteen 4-gun schooners built under contract in Bermuda during the Napoleonic War. The class was an attempt by the Admiralty to harness the expertise of Bermudian shipbuilders who were renowned for their fast-sailing craft (particularly the Bermuda sloops). The Admiralty ordered twelve vessels on 23 June 1804, and a further six on 11 December 1805. Construction A number of different builders in different yards built them, with all the first batch launching in 1804 and 1805. The second batch were all launched in 1807. Goodrich & Co acted as the main contractor to the Navy Board, and in many cases the actual builder is unrecorded. They were all constructed of Bermuda cedar. This durable, native wood, abundant in Bermuda, was strong and light, and did not need seasoning. Shipbuilders used it for framing as well as planking, which reduced vessel weight. It was also highly resistant to rot and marine b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Haddock (1805)
HMS ''Haddock'' was a Royal Navy schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1805. ''Haddock'' only sailed for some three to four years before the French captured her in 1809 in the English Channel. This schooner was the only Royal Navy ship ever to use the name. Service She was commissioned in April 1805 under Lieutenant John Buddle. Between 9 October and 15 November she was in Portsmouth, refitting. At this time the Admiralty had her lines taken. She would then act as the model for the subsequent s. By 4 August 1805, when she sailed from Jamaica, she was under Lieutenant Edward Foley. She brought with her the mails for Falmouth originally intended for the ''Lord Chesterfield Packet''. She also brought with her the former master of ''Leicester Packet''. ''Haddock'' reached Scilly on 30 September, and arrived at Falmouth on 1 October 1805. ''Haddock'' sailed for Jamaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Capelin (1804)
HMS ''Capelin'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner carrying four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. Like many of her class and the related ''Cuckoo''-class schooners, she succumbed to the perils of the sea relatively early in her career. Career In May 1804 she was commissioned under Lieutenant Archibald McDonald (or M'Donald; acting) for the Halifax station. On 20 December 1806 he faced a court martial for his conduct after ''Capelin'' had run aground while under his command. The court decided that the charge was partly proven and so reprimanded him. It also ruled that he forfeit all seniority on the lieutenants' list. Still, McDonald was promoted to lieutenant on 22 December 1806 and commanded ''Capelin'' until February 1807. At some point, possibly in 1806, Lieutenant J. Beckett may have commanded her for a short period. In 1807 ''Capelin'' was off Le Havre and un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bream (1807)
HMS ''Bream'' was a British Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1807. ''Bream'' operated primarily in North American waters and had an uneventful career until the War of 1812. She then captured two small American privateers and assisted in the recovery of a third, much larger one. She also captured a number of small prizes before she was sold or broken up in 1816. Napoleonic Wars She was commissioned in March 1807 under Lieutenant Augustus Vere Drury at Halifax, Nova Scotia. In April Sub-Lieutenant George Gover Miall, the commander of the schooner ''Chebuctoo'', was ordered to act as Lieutenant-Commander of the ''Bream''. Miall sailed ''Bream'' to the Leeward Islands. While ''Bream'' was in the Chesapeake Bay a mutiny broke out that Lieutenant Bartholomew George Smith Day helped suppress. Miall removed to ''Duguay Trouin'' on 15 June 1809 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Ernouf (1807 Privateer)
''Dame Ernouf'' first appears under that name in 1807. Her origins are currently obscure. She served as a privateer first under that name, and then under the name ''Diligent''. As ''Diligent'' she not only capture several merchantmen but also two British Royal Navy vessels: a schooner and a brig. She continued to capture prizes until the end of 1813 and then disappears from online records. Origins By one source ''Dame Ernouf'' was the privateer brig ''Barbara'', of 185 tons (bm), that the French privateer ''General Ernouf'' had captured on 15 September 1807 and had taken into Guadeloupe. However, the vessel that ''General Ernouf'' captured was the British Royal Navy schooner , an ''Adonis'' class schooner of 110 tons (bm), that her captor took into Cayenne. She became the French privateer ''Pératy'', which the Royal Navy recaptured her in 1808. ''Dame Ernouf'' ''Dame Ernouf'' was commissioned in Guadeloupe in late 1807 under Alexis Grassin who had earlier captained ''Génà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Whiting (1805)
HMS ''Whiting'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner (a type of vessel often described as a Bermuda sloop) of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1805. She was a participant at the Battle of Basque Roads. A French privateer captured her at the beginning of the War of 1812, shortly after the Americans had captured and released her in the first naval incident of the war. Napoleonic Wars In 1805 ''Whiting'' was under the command of Lieutenant John Orkney at Halifax on her way to Portsmouth for completion, which took place between 26 April and 19 May 1806. Before that, however, at end-September she captured and sent into Bermuda an American vessel from Bordeaux carrying brandy and wine. ''Whiting'' was commissioned in June 1806 under Lieutenant George Roach for the North Sea. However, already on 18 June ''Whiting'', , and the hired armed cutter ''John Bull'' arrived at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sables D'Olonne
Les Sables-d'Olonne (; French meaning: "The Sands of Olonne"; Poitevin: ''Lés Sablles d'Oloune'') is a seaside town in Western France, on the Atlantic Ocean. A subprefecture of the department of Vendée, Pays de la Loire, it has the administrative level of commune. On 1 January 2019, the municipalities of Olonne-sur-Mer, Château-d'Olonne and Les Sables-d'Olonne merged, retaining the latter name. Location and geography Les Sables-d'Olonne is a seaside town in western France, on the Atlantic Ocean. It is situated on the coast between La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire, near the coastal terminus of the A87 that connects it and nearby communities to La Roche-sur-Yon, Cholet, and Angers to the northeast. The nearest major metropolitan center of France, to Les Sables-d'Olonne, is Nantes, to the north (approximately 105 km, by road). Les Sables-d'Olonne station has rail connections to Paris, La Roche-sur-Yon and Nantes. It is at the level of administrative division in the French Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Snapper (1805)
HMS ''Snapper'' was a Royal Navy of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. She cruised for some seven years, sharing in several captures of merchant vessels and taking some herself, before a French privateer captured her. Service In May 1804 she was commissioned under Lieutenant George Honey at Jamaica, and then on the Halifax station. In October 1806 she sailed in the Channel under Lieutenant William B. Champion. Then in May 1807 he sailed her to the Mediterranean. On 13 April 1808 Sub-Lieutenant James Young underwent a court martial aboard ''Salvador del Mundo'' at Plymouth. One charge was conduct unbecoming an officer. Apparently he had smoked in the galley with the crew and "permitted liberties derogatory to the character of an officer". A second charge was that he had been absent without leave during a gale and had returned to the vessel intoxicated. The court martial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pilchard (1805)
HMS ''Pilchard'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda. She was commissioned under Lieutenant Samuel Crew in May 1804, launched in 1805, and completed at Plymouth in 1806.Winfield (2008), p.359. Although ''Pilchard'' was often near naval engagements, she seems not to have had to fire her cannons before she was laid up in 1812. Entries in ''Lloyd's Register'' indicate that she continued in mercantile trade from at least 1817 until 1833, under a variety of owners and masters, and as far afield as Africa and Valparaiso. Service ''Pilchard'' arrived in Plymouth in November 1805. She had left Newfoundland on 26 September with a fleet for Portugal. On 18 November she had left 18 merchantmen off Oporto, two of which sailed on to Viana. On 16 July 1806 she was in Sir Samuel Hood's squadron off Rochefort when the boats from that squadron captured the 16-gun brig '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pike (1804)
HMS ''Pike'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. She captured one 10-gun enemy vessel before being herself captured, and recaptured. Service ''Pike'' was commissioned in Jamaica in June 1804 under Lieutenant John Nichols. Lieutenant Duncan Macdonald replaced him in October. In 1806 Lieutenant C. Spence took command, and then Lieutenant John Otley replaced him in August. On 25 August Rear-Admiral Dacres formed a small squadron under the command of Captain George Le Geyt of the 18-gun ''Stork''. The other three vessels in the squadron were the 14-gun ''Superieure'', the 10 or 12-gun schooner ''Flying Fish'', and ''Pike''. Dacres ordered Le Geyt to bring out or destroy privateers based at Batabano in Cuba. On 30 August the squadron approached the Isle of Pines. There they sighted a Spanish schooner at anchor. Le Geyt rein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Mackerel (1804)
HMS ''Mackerel'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. Given that she served entirely during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, she had an unusually peaceful and uneventful career, primarily on the Newfoundland Station, before she was sold in 1815. Service She was commissioned in May 1804 at Bermuda under Lieutenant Peter S. Prieur for the Newfoundland station. Later that year Lieutenant Richard Williams, who had received his promotion on 13 December 1804, assumed command, after serving as a Master's Mate on . Williams joined ''Mackerel'' in Bermuda, where he fitted her out. One of her initial accomplishments was to salvage the main deck guns and bower anchor from when ''Tartar'' grounded in Murray's Roads, Bermuda. (''Tartar'' was later refloated.) Next, ''Mackerel'', with 57 French prisoners on board, narrowly escaped b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Halifax
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Herring (1804)
HMS ''Herring'' was a Royal Navy ''Ballahoo''-class schooner of four 12-pounder carronades and a crew of 20. The prime contractor for the vessel was Goodrich & Co., in Bermuda, and she was launched in 1804. She spent most of her career in North American waters though she did spend two years sailing between Britain and Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ... before returning to North America where she foundered in 1813. Service She was commissioned under Lieutenant Isaac Morrison for the Leeward Islands or Newfoundland, and in fact served on the Newfoundland Station. In 1804 she was temporarily under Lieutenant John G. M'B. McKillop. He wrote the following letter: His Maj. Schooner Herring, Bermuda October 1804 Sir, I have the honor to acquaint your excellen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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