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Formidable (1795)
Formidable may refer to: Music Albums * ''Formidable'' (La Toya Jackson album), 1992 or the title song *Formidable (Pat Martino album), 2017 *''Formidable'', by Oui Oui, 1991 *''Formidable...!'', by Bernard Peiffer, 2006 *''Gabar'' (Formidable), by Abdel Halim Hafez, 1967 Songs * "Formidable" (song), by Stromae, 2013 *"Formidable", by Twenty One Pilots from ''Scaled and Icy ''Scaled and Icy'' is the sixth studio album by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots. The album was released on May 21, 2021, through Fueled by Ramen and Elektra. The album's title is a play on "scaled back and isolated", a phrase frontman Tyl ...'', 2021 *"Formidable", written by Charles Trenet Ships * ''Formidable''-class frigate, Republic of Singapore Navy * French ship ''Formidable'', six ships, including: ** French ship ''Formidable'' (1751), an 80-gun ship of the line ** French ship ''Formidable'' (1795), later HMS ''Belleisle'', a 74-gun third rate ** French ship ''Formidable'' (1795), an 80-gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formidable (La Toya Jackson Album)
''Formidable'' is the soundtrack to the show performed at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France by American singer La Toya Jackson. Only 3,000 copies were created and it has become one of the most sought-after albums by her fans. To promote the show, Jackson paid homage to La Goulue by visiting her grave in Montmartre Cemetery. Jackson also cited Josephine Baker as an influence. '' L'Express'' hailed Jackson as "the new Josephine Baker."Cohen, Roger'Paris Journal; Today's Lament: Where's Yesteryear's Gay Paree?'''The New York Times'', January 29, 1993. According to academic Bennetta Jules-Rosette, "Through careful planning, she was able to model a successful part of her career abroad on the master tropes of a Baker-like image. Jackson exemplifies Baudrillard's notion that neither the message nor the content count as much as the referentiality of the signifier in postmodern performative discourse." Jackson was the main attraction at the Moulin Rouge for four months, at which point s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Marat (1794)
''Lion'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the French Navy, which later served in the Royal Navy. She was named ''Lion'' on 23 April 1790 and built at Rochefort from August 1791 until June 1794. She was renamed ''Marat'' on 28 September 1793 (7 months before being launched) and then ''Formidable'' on 25 May 1795, with the changing fortunes of the French Revolution. She took part in the action of 6 November 1794, managing to rake . Capture in the Battle of Groix Fighting under captain Linois on 23 June 1795 at the Battle of Groix, she was captured by near the French port of Lorient. She was taken into service in the Royal Navy, but because the Navy already had a , she was renamed ''Belleisle'', apparently in the mistaken belief that she had been captured off Belle Île, rather than the Île de Groix. Battle of Trafalgar 1805 Captained by William Hargood, she was the second ship in the British lee column at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and as such was engage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Formidable (67)
HMS ''Formidable'' was an ordered for the Royal Navy before the Second World War. After being completed in late 1940, she was briefly assigned to the Home Fleet before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet as a replacement for her crippled sister ship . ''Formidable''s aircraft played a key role in the Battle of Cape Matapan in early 1941, and they subsequently provided cover for Allied ships and attacked Axis forces until their carrier was badly damaged by German dive bombers in May. Assigned to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean in early 1942, ''Formidable'' covered the invasion of Diego Suarez in Vichy Madagascar in mid-1942 against the possibility of a sortie by the Japanese into the Indian Ocean. ''Formidable'' returned home for a brief refit before participating in Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa in November. She remained in the Mediterranean and covered the invasions of Sicily and mainland Italy in 1943 before beginning a lengthy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formidable-class Battleship
The ''Formidable'' class of battleships were a three-ship class of pre-dreadnoughts designed by Sir William White and built for the Royal Navy in the late 1890s. The class comprised , , and . They were armed with a battery of four guns, they had top speed of , and they marked the adoption of Krupp armour in British battleship designs. The class formed the basis for the nearly identical of five ships, and those ships are sometimes included in the ''Formidable'' class. ''Formidable'', ''Irresistible'', and ''Implacable'' were built between 1898 and 1901 at the Portsmouth, Chatham, and Devonport Dockyards, respectively. All three ships served in the Mediterranean Fleet early in their careers, before returning to British waters in the late 1900s for duty in the Home Fleet, Channel Fleet, and the Atlantic Fleet. By 1912, all three ships had been assigned to the 5th Battle Squadron, Home Fleet, where they remained until the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. They pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Formidable (1898)
HMS ''Formidable'', the third of four ships of that name to serve in the Royal Navy, was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship was laid down in March 1898, was launched in November that year, and was completed in September 1901. ''Formidable'' served initially with the Mediterranean Fleet, transferring to the Channel Fleet in 1908. In 1912, she was assigned to the 5th Battle Squadron, which was stationed at Nore. Following the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the squadron conducted operations in the English Channel, and was based at Sheerness to guard against a possible German invasion. In the first days of the war, the 5th Battle Squadron covered the crossing of the British Expeditionary Force to France. On 31 December, the squadron was conducting training exercises in the English Channel, and despite the risk of German submarines, was without anti-submarine protection; the German stalked the ships during the day and in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Formidable (1825)
HMS ''Formidable'' was an 84-gun second rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard. With a crew of 700 she was one of the Navy's largest ships at that time. Service She was designed ny Sir Robert Seppings. She was launched in May 1825 at a truly massive cost of £64,000. However, her fitting out (with guns etc) was not completed until November 1841. Her first "true commander" (i.e. other than being moved from dock to dock) was Captain Charles Sullivan who sailed her to the Mediterranean. On 29 November 1842, ''Formidable'' ran aground off the mouth of the Llobregat on the coast of Spain. She was refloated on 2 December 1842 with the aid of two French steamships. In 1869 ''Formidable'' became a training ship, at the National Nautical School in Portishead, and she was sold out of the navy in 1906. In April 1844 command transferred to Captain George Frederick Rich. Archives Records of the National Nautical School are held at Bristol Archives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Formidable (1777)
HMS ''Formidable'' was a 98-gun second rate man-of-war serving the Royal Navy. She was launched on 20 August 1777 at Chatham Dockyard. She had a fitted weight of 1945 tons. She was named after HMS Formidable captured at Quiberon in 1759 and broken in 1767. During her career, her armament was increased to 98-guns. Battle of the Saintes see article: Battle of the Saintes In March 1782, ''Formidable'' was stationed at Gros Islet Bay between the island of St. Lucia in the West Indies and Pigeon Island. It was under the command of Admiral Admiral Rodney, serving as his flagship at the head of 36 ship of the line. Meanwhile the French admiral, Grasse, headed 34 ship of the line at Fort Royal Bay in Martinique (some thirty miles away). Rodney had been dispatched from Britain with 12 well-fitted ships to rescue the West Indies from a series of attacks from the French which had already resulted in the loss of several islands. They joined 24 ships on St Lucia which had already seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Formidable
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Formidable'' with a fifth, the French ''Formidable'', renamed HMS ''Ham'' after being captured and recommissioned; a sixth has been announced: * HMS ''Ham'' (1759) was the 80-gun second rate captured from the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. Broken up in 1768. * was a second rate; initially of 90 guns, later increased to 98; launched in 1777. She fought at the Battle of Ushant and the Battle of the Saintes, was converted to a 74-gun third rate in 1813, and broken up later that year. * was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1825. She was lent as a training ship in 1869 and was sold in 1906. * was a predreadnought battleship launched in 1898 and torpedoed and sunk in 1915. * was an launched in 1939 and sold for scrap in 1953. * HMS ''Formidable'' will be a Type 31 frigate. Battle honours Ships named ''Formidable'' have earned the following battle honours: * The Saints 1782 * Matapan 1941 * Crete 1941 * Mediter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ironclad Formidable
''Formidable'' was an ironclad warship, ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy between her keel laying in late 1879 and her completion in early 1889. She was the second and final member of the . The ships of the class was designed in response to Italian naval expansion, and carried a main battery of three guns all mounted in open barbettes on the centerline (nautical), centerline. The armament was chosen after public pressure to compete with the very large guns mounted on the latest Italian ironclads. ''Formidable'' spent most of her career in the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (France), Mediterranean Fleet, where she conducted fleet training exercises each year. In 1891, she was involved in tests with tethered observation balloons. Her career passed fairly uneventfully, though she caused a ship grounding, grounding accident that involved two other vessels in 1895. She was modernized between 1897 and 1898, which included removing her center main battery gun and ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Formidable (1795)
''Formidable'' was an 80-gun of the French Navy, laid down in August 1794 and given the name ''Formidable,'' on 5 October, but renamed ''Figuieres'' on 4 December 1794, although the name was restored to ''Formidable'' on 31 May 1795 after she was launched at Toulon on 17 March 1795. She participated in the Battle of Algeciras, the Battle of Cape Finisterre and several other actions before the British captured her at the Battle of Cape Ortegal on 4 November 1805. The British took her into service as HMS ''Brave''. She was sold to be broken up in April 1816. French service On 6 July 1801 she fought in the Battle of Algeciras under Captain Landais Lalonde, who was killed in the action. Command then transferred to ''capitaine de frégate'' Amable Troude, formerly second in command of ''Dessaix''. On 13 July, as she sailed isolated behind the French fleet, she was chased by the frigate and the ships of the line (74), (80) and (74). She allowed ''Venerable'' catch up and too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Formidable (1751)
''Formidable'' was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1751. Career In 1754, ''Formidable'' was under Duchaffault, part of a squadron under Mac Nemara. She fought at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, where she served as the flagship of Saint André du Vergé. captured her at the battle and the Admiralty commissioned her in the Royal Navy as the Third Rate HMS ''Formidable''. Fate ''Formidable'' was broken up in 1768. In popular culture The ''Formidable'' appears as a legendary ship fought in the 2014 video game '' Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' at the Battle of Quiberon Bay. In contrast to the game, the ship was sunk by the protagonist Shay Cormac with his ship, the ''Morrigan'', instead of being captured by the Royal Navy. Like all men-of-war The man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or simply man) was a Royal Navy expression for a powerful warship or frigate from the 16th to the 19th century. Although the term never acquired a specifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formidable (Pat Martino Album)
''Formidable'' is an album by jazz guitarist Pat Martino. Formidable is the last full length album released by Martino before his death in 2021. It was recorded in April 2017 at Jankland Recording in Wall Township, New Jersey, and was released by HighNote Records later that year. On the album, Martino is joined by saxophonist Adam Niewood, trumpeter Alex Norris, organist Pat Bianchi, and drummer Carmen Intorre Jr. Reception In a review for ''DownBeat'', Bobby Reed wrote: "Among the aspects that make this album a keeper are a sturdy commitment to swing, and the generosity of a leader who lets his gifted accompanists stretch out with solos. A couple of ballads... are performed in a trio setting, showcasing Martino's mastery of tempo and illustrating that a smoldering flame can be just as hot as a raging inferno." Writing for ''The Guardian'', John Fordham remarked: "Pat Martino has the... reputation of being a guitarists' guitarist, on account of his speed, accuracy and creamy-smoot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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