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Edward St. Lo
Rear Admiral Edward St. Lo (died 14 April 1729) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. He may have been the son of the Commissioner of the Navy, George St. Lo. Naval career St. Lo was promoted to post captain on 9 September 1703 on appointment to the command of the fourth-rate HMS ''Pendennis''. He transferred to the command of the fifth-rate HMS ''Dolphin'' in September 1704, of the fifth-rate HMS ''Gosport'' (1696) in 1706. Following his acquittal at court martial for the loss of the ''Gosport'' to the French third-rank ship ''Jason'', he commanded the fifth-rate HMS ''Tartar'' in 1707. He went on to receive the command the fourth-rate HMS ''Salisbury Prize'' in 1708, of the third-rate HMS ''Defiance'' in 1711 and of the third-rate HMS ''Prince Frederick'' in 1719. After that he took command of the third-rate HMS ''Breda'' in 1723 and of the third-rate HMS ''Northumberland'' later that year. St. Lo became Commander-in-Chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (Royal Navy)
Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above Commander (Royal Navy), commander and below Commodore (Royal Navy), commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a colonel in the British Army and Royal Marines, and to a group captain in the Royal Air Force. There are similarly named Captain (naval), equivalent ranks in the navies of many other countries. Seagoing captains In the Royal Navy, the officer in command of any warship of the rank of Commander (Royal Navy), commander and below is informally referred to as "the captain" on board, even though holding a junior rank, but formally is titled "the commanding officer" (or CO). In former times, up until the nineteenth century, Royal Navy officers who were captains by rank and in command of a naval vessel were referred to as post-captains; this practice is now defunct. A Captain (D) or Captain Destroyers afloat was an operational commander responsible for the command of dest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy Rear Admirals
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William Smith (Royal Navy Officer)
Rear Admiral William Smith (died 1756) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Naval career Smith was promoted to post captain on 10 May 1716 on appointment to the command of the sixth-rate HMS ''Port Mahon''. He transferred to the command of the fifth-rate HMS ''Gosport'' in August 1720, of the fourth-rate HMS ''Dartmouth'' in 1721 and of the fourth-rate HMS ''York'' in 1726. Smith served briefly as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station in 1729Cundall, p. xx and was promoted to Rear Admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarde ... on 21 July 1747 during his retirement. References Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, William Royal Navy rear admirals 1756 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hopson
Vice Admiral Edward Hopson (1671 – 8 May 1728) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station. Origins and early career Hopson was born in 1671, the son of Anthony Hopson (1640–1679), who was a gunner at Sandham Fort on the Isle of Wight and the older brother of vice admiral Sir Thomas Hopsonn. Edward followed his uncle into the Royal Navy, and was serving under him as first lieutenant of the in 1693. On 24 July 1696 he was given his first independent command, as post captain of the fifth-rate . He spent the next two years in that vessel cruising the Irish Sea. In 1702 he transferred to the command of the third-rate , in which he took part in the Battle of Vigo Bay that October. The following year, ''Mary'' served as the flagship of rear admiral Basil Beaumont during his blockade of Dunkirk the following year. Fortunately for him, Hopson was on shore when the Great Storm of 1703 struck on 27 November. The ''Mary'' was thrown onto the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blockade Of Porto Bello
The Blockade of Porto Bello was a failed British naval action against the Spanish port of Porto Bello in present-day Panama between 1726 and 1727 as part of the Anglo-Spanish War. The British were attempting to blockade the port to stop the Spanish treasure fleet leaving for Spain with its valuable cargo. However tropical disease took its toll of the seamen to the extent that the British had to leave to re-crew, during which time the Spanish were able to re-commence shipping operations. Background Spain and Britain had come into conflict during the 1720s over a number of issues, and had recently been at war with each other during the War of the Quadruple Alliance. Disputes over trade were a major cause of aggravation to Anglo-Spanish relations, combined with a fear in Britain that Spain had made an alliance with Austria as the precursor to declaring war on Britain and its ally France. The British decided to try to weaken Spain and discourage them from pursuing the Austrian all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hosier
Vice Admiral Francis Hosier (1673–1727) was a British naval officer. He was a lieutenant on Rooke's flagship at the Battle of Barfleur in 1693. He captured the ''Heureux'' off Cape Clear in 1710 and distinguished himself in action with the Spanish off Cartagena in 1711. He is chiefly remembered, however, for his role in the failure of the Blockade of Porto Bello, for which poor Government orders were largely responsible, during which he died of disease alongside thousands of his sailors. Career Hosier was the son of the Clerk of the Cheque (and Muster-Master) to Samuel Pepys who lived at the foot of Crooms Hill, Greenwich. A certain Francis Hosier was the Storekeeper at Deptford in 1684, earning a salary of £305, the highest paid at the Depot. He became a lieutenant in the navy in 1692, when he was appointed to the ''Winchelsea'', a 32-gun new frigate, after being in that station on board different ships for four years. Captain Francis Hosier was only 26 years old in 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Superb (1710)
HMS ''Superb'' was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously been ''Le Superbe'', a 56-gun warship of the French Navy, until her capture off Lizard Point by in July 1710. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in September 1710, HMS ''Superb'' served throughout Queen Anne's War and the War of the Quadruple Alliance, during which she participated in the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. She was broken up in 1732. Construction ''Le Superbe'' was designed by Pierre Blaise Coulomb and constructed between August 1708 and March 1709 at Lorient, a French naval base on the coast of Brittany in north-west France. She was launched on 12 December 1708 and measured along her gundeck, had a beam of and drew from at the bow, to at the stern. With a depth in the hold of , she had a capacity of 1,020 tons ( bm). Career (Royal Navy) On 29 July 1710 ''Le Superbe'' was captured off The Lizard by HMS ''Kent''. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third rate ships embodied the best compromise between sailing ability (speed, handling), firepower, and cost. So, while first-rates and second-rates were both larger and more powerful, third-rate ships were the optimal configuration. Rating When the rating system was first established in the 1620s, the third rate was defined as those ships having at least 200 but not more than 300 men; previous to this, the type had been classified as "middling ships". By the 1660s, the means of classification had shifted from the number of men to the number of carriage-mounted guns, and third rates at that time mounted between 48 and 60 guns. By the turn of the century, the criterion boundaries had increased and third rate carried more than 60 guns, with seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ships Of The Line Of France
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HMS Gosport
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Gosport'', after the Hampshire town of Gosport, located close to the naval base at Portsmouth: * was a 32-gun fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rating The rating system in the Royal N ... launched in 1696. She was captured by the French in 1706. * was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1707 and broken up in 1735. * was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1741 and broken up by 1768. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gosport Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rating The rating system in the Royal Navy as originally devised had just four rates, but early in the reign of Charles I, the original fourth rate (derived from the "Small Ships" category under his father, James I) was divided into new classifications of fourth, fifth, and sixth rates. While a fourth-rate ship was defined as a ship of the line, fifth and the smaller sixth-rate ships were never included among ships-of-the-line. Nevertheless, during the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century, fifth rates often found themselves involved among the battle fleet in major actions. Structurally, these were two-deckers, with a complete battery on the lower deck, and fewer guns on the upper deck (below the forecastle and quarter decks, usually with no guns in the waist on this deck). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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