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Bering Sea Squadron
The Bering Sea Squadron was a combined American and British naval station formed and disbanded in 1891 to suppress seal poaching in the Bering Sea. Eleven vessels were assigned to the squadron including eight United States Navy and Revenue Cutter Service ships plus three from the Royal Navy. Anti-Poaching Operations The United States and United Kingdom government banned sealing in the Bering Sea in 1891 due to the near extinction of the animals so that year Commander Charles S. Cotton of the American navy was ordered to lead a force of two sloops, USS ''Mohican'' and USS ''Marion'', two steamers, USS ''Thetis'' and SS ''Al-Ki'', plus the gunboats USS ''Alert'' and USS ''Ranger'' to operate against poachers. The revenue cutters USRC ''Rush'' and USRC ''Corwin'' were also placed under Cotton's command. British forces sent the cruiser HMS ''Porpoise'', the screw sloop HMS ''Nymphe'' and the steamer HMS ''Pheasant''. From the beginning of the operation on June 22, 1891 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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USS Thetis (1881)
The first USS ''Thetis'' was a three-masted, wooden-hulled steam whaler in the United States Navy used to rescue a polar expedition and later in the Revenue Cutter Service. ''Thetis'' was built in 1881 at Dundee, Scotland, by Alexander Stephen & Sons. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 2 February 1884 to be employed by the expedition to relieve the polar exploration party under the command of Lt. Adolphus W. Greely. She sailed from Dundee under the command of Lt. L. L. Reamey and arrived in New York on 23 March 1884. Rescue After more than a month of preparations, ''Thetis''—now under the command of Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who also headed the relief squadron—departed New York on 1 May. Ice flows and heavy weather hampered the search all along the way. ''Thetis'' did not even reach Upernavik, Greenland, her jumping-off point, until the latter part of the month. She departed that port on the 29th in company with and headed north. Along the way, she made stops a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine (military)
Marines, or naval infantry, are typically a military force trained to operate in littoral zones in support of naval operations. Historically, tasks undertaken by marines have included helping maintain discipline and order aboard the ship (reflecting the pressed nature of the ship's company and the risk of mutiny), the boarding of vessels during combat or capture of prize ships, and providing manpower for raiding ashore in support of the naval objectives. In most countries, the marines are an integral part of that state's navy. The exact term "marine" does not exist in many languages other than English. In French-speaking countries, two terms exist which could be translated as "marine", but do not translate exactly: and ; similar pseudo-translations exist elsewhere, e.g. in Portuguese (). The word ''marine'' means "navy" in many European languages such as Dutch, French, German, Italian and Norwegian. History In the earliest day of naval warfare, there was little disti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pheasant (1888)
Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Pheasant'': * , a 14-gun sloop. Originally French (Faisan), captured April 1761 by HMS ''Albany''. Foundered in the English Channel in October 1761. * , a 12-gun cutter armed with 12 x 4-pounder guns. Bought in 1778. Capsized in the English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ... on 20 June 1781. * , an 18-gun sloop by Edwards of Shoreham, launched 17 April 1798. Sold on 11 July 1827. * , an 4-gun, wooden screw gunboat by W & H Pitcher of Northfleet launched on 1 May 1856. She took part in the Royal Fleet Review of 23 April 1856 and was broken up in August 1877 at Northfleet. * , a 6-gun, composite screw gunboat built at Devonport Dockyard, launched on 10 April 1888. Armed with 6 × 4 in guns. Sold on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Nymphe (1888)
HMS ''Nymphe'' was a ''Nymphe''-class composite screw sloop and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was renamed HMS ''Wildfire'' in 1906, HMS ''Gannet'' in 1916, and finally HMS ''Pembroke'' in 1917, before she was sold in 1920. Construction and service history Developed and constructed for the Royal Navy on a design by William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction, she was launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 1 May 1888. Commander Richard Bowles Farquhar was in command until 16 February 1900, when she paid off at Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council. Portsmouth is the most dens ... for repairs. Fate From August 1914 she was a shore training ship at Sheerness, was later renamed ''Wildfire'' and was sold to Ward of Milford Haven for breaking in February 1920. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Porpoise (1886)
HMS ''Porpoise'' was an torpedo cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by J. & G. Thompson at Glasgow and launched on 7 May 1886.Bastock, p.108. Commenced service on the Australia Station in December 1897. During the Samoan civil unrest in 1899, she took part in operations with and . She left the Australia Station and was Ship commissioning#Ship decommissioning, paid off at HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth 20 May 1901. She was sold at Bombay on 10 February 1905. Citations References *Bastock, John (1988), ''Ships on the Australia Station'', Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. 1886 ships Ships built on the River Clyde Archer-class cruisers Victorian-era naval ships of the United Kingdom {{UK-mil-ship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several roles. The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hundred years, has changed its meaning over time. During the Age of Sail, the term ''cruising'' referred to certain kinds of missions—independent scouting, commerce protection, or raiding—fulfilled by frigates or sloops-of-war, which functioned as the ''cruising warships'' of a fleet. In the middle of the 19th century, ''cruiser'' came to be a classification of the ships intended for cruising distant waters, for commerce raiding, and for scouting for the battle fleet. Cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the medium-sized protected cruiser to large armored cruisers that were nearly as big (although not as powerful or as well-armored) as a pre-dreadnought battleship. With the advent of the dreadnought battleship before World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USRC Thomas Corwin (1876)
The ''Thomas Corwin'' was a United States revenue cutter and subsequently a merchant vessel. These two very different roles both centered on Alaska and the Bering Sea. In 1912, Frank Willard Kimball wrote: "The ''Corwin'' has probably had a more varied and interesting career than any other vessel which plies the Alaskan waters." ''Thomas Corwin'' was the first revenue cutter to regularly cruise the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.US Coast Guard, Historian's Office (a) Built in the state of Oregon, she was finished and commissioned in San Francisco which remained her home port. In a 23-year federal career, she participated in the search for the , landed scientific parties on Wrangel and Herald islands, took part in the shelling of the Tlingit village Angoon, interdicted whiskey traffic, rescued shipwrecked whalers, contributed to the exploration of Alaska, and arrested seal poachers. She had at least eight captains during her federal career, but is particularly associated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USRC Rush (1885)
USRC ''Rush'' was a revenue cutter named for Richard Rush, eighth Secretary of the Treasury. She was a replacement for and was much larger, but re-used the engine from the first ''Rush''. She was completed in November 1885. In January 1886, soon after commissioning, she was assigned to search for the whaler ''Amethyst'', last seen in the Bering Sea the previous October. ''Rush'' spent her entire career on the Pacific ranging from the Bering Sea to Hawaii and San Diego, California performing customs duties, search and rescue, and law enforcement, including hosting judicial functions in furtherance of her enforcement of revenue and conservation laws. During the Spanish–American War in 1898 she was detached for duty with the United States Navy in the defense of the west coast, but returned to her duties with the Revenue Service later that year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenue Cutter
A cutter is a type of watercraft. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used under sail or oars, or, historically, to a type of fast-sailing vessel introduced in the 18th century, some of which were used as small warships. As a sailing rig, a cutter is a single-masted boat, with two or more headsails. On the eastern side of the Atlantic, the two headsails on a single mast is the fullest extent of the modern definition. In U.S. waters, a greater level of complexity applies, with the placement of the mast and the rigging details of the bowsprit taken into account so a boat with two headsails may be classed as a sloop. Government agencies use the term "cutter" for vessels employed in patrolling their territorial waters and other enforcement activities. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations
Bering Sea Anti-Poaching Operations were conducted in 1891 by the navies and marine corps' of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Due to the near extinction of the seal population in the Bering Sea, the American and British governments dispatched a squadron of warships to suppress poaching activities, under the command of Charles S. Cotton. Operations The operations against seal poachers had their origin in the 1880s after Canada claimed the fishing rights around many of the Aleutian Islands, in violation of United States law. As a result, the United States Navy Pacific Squadron seized several Canadian ships. Also, the near extinction of seals by poachers from the Dominion of Canada and the United States drew the interests of the Naturalist societies who pressured their governments to respond so in 1891 President Benjamin Harrison and his British counterparts banned sealing in the Bering Sea and ordered the formation of a new naval squadron. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Nantucket (IX-18)
USS ''Ranger'', later USS ''Rockport'' and USS ''Nantucket'' (PG-23/IX-18), was a gunboat of the United States Navy. A screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail, ''Ranger'' was destined for a very long 65-year career, serving first as a U.S. Navy gunboat from 1876 to 1920, and later as a training ship with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy from 1909 to 1941. The ship was finally scrapped in 1958, but her engine, which is the only one of its type known to be still in existence, was preserved and is on display at the American Merchant Marine Museum of Kings Point, New York. Design and construction ''Ranger'' was built by Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware. She was laid down in 1873, and launched in 1876. ''Ranger''s engine was designed by the Bureau of Steam Engineering and built by John Roach & Sons of Chester, Pennsylvania. The engine is of the compound back-acting type, with cylinders of 28½ and 42½ inches respectively, and a 42-inch stroke. The pist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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