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French Corvette Sylphe (1804)
''Sylphe'' was an ''Abeille''-class 16-gun brig-corvette of the French Navy. The class was built to a design by François Pestel. The British captured her in 1807 and took her into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Seagull'', but apparently never used her in any capacity. She was sold in 1814. French service From December 1804 to May 1805, under ''Lieutenant de vaisseau'' Jean-Jacques-Jude Langlois, she patrolled between Dunkirk and Hellevoetsluis, and then cruised the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland. Then she sailed from Pasajes to Rochefort. She then took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805, capturing the merchantman ''Brothers''. ''Sylphe'' captured on 13 May 1805 at a number of vessels in a convey that had left Cork on 9 May for Newfoundland. The British managed to recapture several. ''Sylphe'' also captured: ''Margaret'', Chappell, master; ''Hunter'', of Arboath, Stevens, master; and ''Bowman'', of Workington, Priestman, master. ''Sylphe'' took part in the action of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Brig Cygne (1806)
''Cygne'' was an 16-gun brig of the French Navy, launched in 1806. Career On 10 November 1808, under Lieutenant Menouvrier Defresne, ''Cygne'' departed Cherbourg, part of a squadron under Rear-Admiral Hamelin also comprising the frigates , , and the brig . bound for Martinique. The next day, the ships of the squadron were scattered. On 13, ''Cygne'' captured the Portuguese ship ''Miliciano'' and set her ablaze. Arriving near Saint-Pierre,_Menouvrier_Defresne_decided_to_drop_anchor_under_a_shore_battery_at_ Pelham_Brenton),__(Thomas_Tudor)_and_the_schooner__(William_Dowers)._On_12_December,_''Cygne''_passed_the_northern_cape_of_Martinique;_seeing_that_he_would_be_overhauled_by_the_British_squadron_before_reaching_Saint-Pierre,_Martinique">Saint-Pierre,_Menouvrier_Defresne_decided_to_drop_anchor_under_a_shore_battery_at_Rivière_de_l'_Anse_Céron">Anse_Céron.Troude,_p._520 Two_of_the_British_brigs_then_dropped_anchor_in_positions_that_cut_''Cygne''s_retreat_to_Saint-Pier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A View Of HMS Pallas Passing Under The Batteries Of The ÃŽle-d'Aix On 14 May 1806
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey É‘. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval General Service Medal (1847)
__NOTOC__ The Naval General Service Medal (NGSM) was a campaign medal approved in 1847, and issued to officers and men of the Royal Navy in 1849. The final date for submitting claims was 1 May 1851.British Battles and Medals, page 34. Admiral Thomas Bladen Capel was one of the members of the board that authorised the medal. The NGSM was awarded retrospectively for various naval actions during the period 1793–1840, a period that included the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and the Anglo-American War of 1812. Each battle or campaign covered by the medal was represented by a clasp on the ribbon. The medal was never issued without a clasp, 231 of which were sanctioned.British Battles and Medals, page 33. The clasps covered a variety of actions, from boat service, ship to ship skirmishes, to major fleet actions such as the Battle of Trafalgar. This medal and its army counterpart, the Military General Service Medal, were amongst the first real British campaign medals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-captain
Post-captain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of Captain (Royal Navy), captain in the Royal Navy. The term served to distinguish those who were captains by rank from: * Officers in command of a naval vessel, who were (and still are) addressed as captain regardless of rank; * Commander (Royal Navy), Commanders, who received the title of captain as a courtesy, whether they currently had a command or not (e.g. the fictional Captain Jack Aubrey in ''Aubrey-Maturin series#Master and Commander, Master and Commander'' or the fictional Captain Horatio Hornblower in ''Hornblower and the Hotspur''); this custom is now defunct. In the Royal Navy of the 18th and 19th centuries, an officer might be promoted from commander to captain, but not have a command. Until the officer obtained a command, he was "on the beach" and on half-pay. An officer "took post" or was "made post" when he was first commissioned to command a vessel. Usually this was a rating system of the Royal Navy, ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ÃŽle D'Yeu
Île d'Yeu () or L'Île-d'Yeu, is an island and commune just off the Vendée coast of western France. The island's two harbors, Port-Joinville in the north and Port de la Meule to the south, in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are famous for tuna and lobster fishing, respectively. Administratively, the commune of L'Île-d'Yeu is part of the Vendée department and the Pays de la Loire region of France. History Neolithic markings in the native stone and an unusual concentration of megalithic dolmens and menhirs attest to the island's early sanctity. Irish monks from Bangor, County Down, dedicated their monastery on the Île d'Yeu to Hilaire; Saint Amand from Poitou received early training there, but it was destroyed by Viking raiders in the ninth century. During the tenth century, monks from Marmoutier near Tours and monks of Saint-Cyprien at Poitiers built a new monastery and dedicated it to Saint Stephen. The castle built on an islet linked to the coast by a brid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Electra (1808)
HMS ''Electra'' was a 16-gun brig-sloop. She was built by the Enterprise Ethéart, Saint-Malo, as the French ''Curieux''-class brig ''Espiègle'' and launched in 1804. She was armed in 1807 at Saint Servan. The British frigate ''Sybille'' captured her on 16 August 1808. There was already an in the Royal Navy so the Navy took the vessel they had just captured into service as HMS ''Electra'', her predecessor having been wrecked in March. ''Electra'' captured one American privateer before she was sold in 1816. French service She sailed from Lorient Lorient (; ) is a town (''Communes of France, commune'') and Port, seaport in the Morbihan Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in western France. History Prehistory and classical antiquity Beginn ... on 15 August 1808 under the command of '' Lieutenant de vaisseau'' Maujouan, and in the company of and . The three ships were sailing across the Bay of Biscay en route to Martinique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Saint Pierre (1809)
HMS ''Saint Pierre'' was launched in 1803 at Bordeaux as ''Saint Pierre'', intended for use as a slave ship. The Department of Eure purchased her and donated her to the French government, which, however, found her unsuitable and returned her to her owner. The French Navy later requisitioned her between July and September 1805 as a storeship and renamed her ''Diligente''. She was at Martinique in February 1809 when the British Royal Navy captured the island. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS ''Saint Pierre''. French career The ship was launched in 1803 at Bordeaux as ''Saint Pierre'', intended for use as a slave ship. The Department of Eure purchased her in August or September to donate her to the French government for use as an 18-gun corvette. They were to deliver her on 24 September but the government found her unsuitable and returned her to her owner. By the time she returned to mercantile service war with England was well underway and ''Saint Pierre'' apparently d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its Seat (legal entity), seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander (order), Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all of the French Order of chivalry, orders of chivalry were abolished and replaced with Weapons of Honour. It was the wish of Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Consulate, First Consul, to create a reward to commend c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hebe (1782)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Hebe'', after the Greek goddess Hebe. * was a French 38-gun frigate captured in 1782, renamed ''Blonde'' in 1805, and broken up in 1811. * was a 32-gun fifth rate in service from 1804 to 1813. Because ''Hebe'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. * was a 46-gun launched in 1826, made a receiving ship in 1839, hulked in 1861, and broken up 1873. * was an launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper in 1909, and sold 1919. * was a launched in 1936 and sunk by a mine off Bari in November 1943. See also * was launched at Leith. For eight years she served the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Thétis (1788)
''Thétis'' was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy. From 1790, she served in various diplomatic missions in the Indian Ocean, before returning for a refit in Brest in 1793. From 1795, she was shuttled from France to Guadeloupe. She took part in the Invisible Squadron of Zacharie Allemand, before returning to Martinique along with the 16-gun brig . On 17 December 1806, ''Thétis'' and the brig captured . The French sold ''Netley'' and she became the privateer ''Duquesne''. Less than nine months later, on 23 September 1807, HMS ''Blonde'' captured ''Dusquesne''. (The ''Chroniques de la Marine Française'' report that in 1807, ''Thétis'' captured an 18-gun brig named ''Methly''. This may be a slightly garbled reference to the capture of ''Netley'', there being no Royal Navy vessel named ''Methly''.) captured ''Thétis'' off Lorient in the action of 10 November 1808 The action of 10 November 1808 was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, in which a British friga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet
Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (27 November 1762 – 24 December 1814), of 37 Lower Wimpole Street, London, was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served as a Member of Parliament for Westminster in 1806. He is not to be confused with his father's first cousin Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724–1816) who sponsored both him and his elder brother Captain Alexander Hood (1758–1798) into the Royal Navy. Origins He was born on 27 November 1762, the 3rd son of Samuel Hood (1715–1805), a purser in the Royal Navy, of Kingsland in the parish of Netherbury in Dorset, by his wife Anne Bere, a daughter of James Bere of Westbury in Wiltshire. His father's first cousins were the famous brothers Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724–1816) and Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726–1814), sons of Rev. Samuel Hood (1691/2-1777), Vicar of Butleigh and prebendary of Wells Cathedral both in Somerset and Vicar of Thorncombe in Devon. The 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commodore (rank)
Commodore is a senior naval rank used in many navies which is equivalent to brigadier and air commodore. It is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. It is either regarded as the most junior of the flag officers rank or may not hold the jurisdiction of a flag officer at all depending on the officer's appointment. Non-English-speaking nations commonly use the rank of flotilla admiral, counter admiral, or senior captain as an equivalent, although counter admiral may also correspond to ''rear admiral lower half'' abbreviated as RDML. Traditionally, "commodore" is the title for any officer assigned to command more than one ship, even temporarily, much as "captain" is the traditional title for the commanding officer of a single ship even if the officer's official title in the service is a lower rank. As an official rank, a commodore typically commands a flotilla or squadron of ships as part of a larger task force or naval fleet commanded by an admiral. A commodo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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