|
HMS Blanche (1867)
HMS ''Blanche'' was a 1760-ton, 6-gun wooden screw sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1860s by Chatham Dockyard.Bastock, p. 50 She was sent to the Australia Station in January 1868, arriving in April 1868. She undertook a punitive action against Solomon Island natives in September 1869. During 1870, she joined in the search for the schooner ''Daphne'', which was unsuccessful. Under the command of Captain Cortland Simpson, she undertook a survey of Rabaul's Harbour in 1872. Blanche Bay is named after HMS ''Blanche''. She finished service on the Australia Station in 1875. While sailing to England she was almost lost rounding Cape Horn in bad weather. After being refitted and rearmed, she was sent to the North America and West Indies Station, where she remained until 1881. Crew A memorial to Paymaster James McAvoy and Lieutenant Thomas Thompson Auderton Smith was erected in St James' Church, Sydney by the captain and officers of ''Blanche'' in 1872. In 1871 the crew o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Hanover Island
New Hanover Island, (german: Neuhannover), also called Lavongai, is a large volcanic island in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. This region is part of the Bismarck Archipelago and lies at . Measuring some , it had a population of 5,000 in 1960, which increased to approximately 17,160 by 2000. In the interior the Tirpitz Range reaches a height of 2,800 feet. Culture Friedrich Ratzel in ''The History of Mankind''Ratzel, Friedrich. The History of Mankind. (London: MacMillan, 1896). URLwww.inquirewithin.biz/history/american_pacific/oceania/melanesian-ornament.htm accessed 21 October 2009. reported in 1896, when discussing Melanesian ornament, that there were luxurious feather ornament displays in New Hanover, showing much taste in the combination of forms and colours with vegetable fibres and beads on sticks. An example was a delicately formed face in feather-mosaic forming the head of a hairpin. See also * Johnson cult (so called) *List of volcanoes in Papua New Guine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Island
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands. The islands have been settled since at least some time between 30,000 and 28,800 BCE, with later waves of migrants, notably the Lapita people, mixing and producing the modern indigenous Solomon Islanders population. In 1568, the Spanish navigator ﾃ〕varo de Mendaﾃｱa was the first European to visit them. Though not named by Mendaﾃｱa, it is believed that the islands were called ''"the Solomons"'' by those who later receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian-era Sloops Of The United Kingdom
In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian period, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the ''Belle ﾃ英oque'' era of Continental Europe. There was a strong religious drive for higher moral standards led by the nonconformist churches, such as the Methodists and the evangelical wing of the established Church of England. Ideologically, the Victorian era witnessed resistance to the rationalism that defined the Georgian period, and an increasing turn towards romanticism and even mysticism in religion, social values, and arts. This era saw a staggering amount of technological innovations that proved key to Britain's power and prosperity. Doctors started moving away from tradition and mysticism towards a science-based approach; medicine advanced thanks to the adoption of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ships Built In Chatham
A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research, and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished from boats, based on size, shape, load capacity, and purpose. Ships have supported exploration, trade, warfare, migration, colonization, and science. After the 15th century, new crops that had come from and to the Americas via the European seafarers significantly contributed to world population growth. Ship transport is responsible for the largest portion of world commerce. The word ''ship'' has meant, depending on the era and the context, either just a large vessel or specifically a ship-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts, each of which is square-rigged. As of 2016, there were more than 49,000 merchant ships, totaling almost 1.8 billion dead weight tons. Of these 28% were oil tankers, 43% were bulk carriers, and 13% were co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ四e Saint-Paul
ﾃ四e Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island) is an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (''Terres australes et antarctiques franﾃｧaises'', TAAF) in the Indian Ocean, with an area of . The island is located about south of the larger ﾃ四e Amsterdam (), northeast of the Kerguelen Islands, and southeast of Rﾃｩunion. It is an important breeding site for seabirds. A scientific research cabin on the island is used for scientific or ecological short campaigns, but there is no permanent population. It is under the authority of a senior administrator on Rﾃｩunion. Geography ﾃ四e Saint-Paul is a volcanic island with triangular in shape that measures no more than at its widest point. It is the top of an active volcano; the volcano last erupted in 1793 (from its SW Flank), and is rocky with steep cliffs on the east side. The thin stretch of rock that used to close off the crater collapsed in 1780, admitting the sea through a channel; the entrance is only a few meters d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Megaera (1849)
HMS ''Megaera'' was originally constructed as an iron screw frigate for the Royal Navy, and was one of the last and largest ships built by William Fairbairn's Millwall shipyard. Launched on 22 May 1849, HMS ''Megaera'' was one of the first iron ships ordered by the Royal Navy. She was named after the mythological figure ''Megaera'', one of the ''Erinyes'' (or ''Furies'', in Roman mythology). ''Megaera'' never saw service as a frigate; just as she entered service, a series of experiments showed that the iron then used in shipbuilding exhibited splintering characteristics which rendered unprotected ships of her type unsuitable for use as warships. The Royal Navy opted to remove the armament from ''Megaera'' and her four sister ships and instead employ them as storeships and transports. However, ''Megaera'' and her sister ships were not well suited to their new role. Their accommodation was unsuited to carrying large numbers of personnel and their steaming power was poor. On h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Rosario (1860)
HMS ''Rosario'' was an 11-gun screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1860 at Deptford Dockyard. She served two commissions, including eight years on the Australia Station during which she fought to reduce illegal kidnappings of South Sea Islanders for the Queensland labour market. She was decommissioned in 1875, finally being sold for breaking nine years later. A team from ''Rosario'' played the first ever New Zealand International Rugby Union match against a Wellington side in 1870. She was the fifth Royal Navy ship to bear the name, which was first used for the galleon ''Del Rosario'', captured from the Spanish in 1588. Design The ''Rosario'' class was designed in 1858 by Issac Watts, the Director of Naval Construction. They were built of wood, were rated for 11 guns and were built with a full ship rig of sails (this was reduced to a barque rig by about 1869). With a length overall of and a beam of , they had a displacement of 913 tons. These were the last sloops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St James' Church, Sydney
St James' Church, commonly known as St James', King Street, is an Australian heritage-listed Anglican parish church located at 173 King Street, in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales. Consecrated in February 1824 and named in honour of St James the Great, it became a parish church in 1835. Designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, St James' is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street which includes other early colonial era buildings such as the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks. The church remains historically, socially and architecturally significant. The building is the oldest one extant in Sydney's inner city region. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 3 September 2004; and was listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate. The church has maintained its special role in the city's religio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAvoy & Smith Memorial (1872)
McAvoy is an Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex McAvoy (1928窶2005), Scottish actor * Andy McAvoy (born 1979), English footballer * Billy McAvoy, Northern Irish footballer * Charlie McAvoy (born 1997), American ice hockey defenseman * Ciara McAvoy, Scottish artist * Doug McAvoy (1939窶2019), British trade union leader * Doug McAvoy (footballer) (1918窶1988), Scottish footballer * Dylan McAvoy, fictional character from ''The Young and the Restless'' * Francis S. McAvoy (1856窶1926), American jurist * Frank McAvoy (1875窶?), Scottish professional footballer * George McAvoy (baseball) (1884窶1952), American baseball player * George McAvoy (1931窶1998), Canadian ice hockey player * Gerry McAvoy (born 1951), Northern Ireland guitarist * Jack McAvoy, American football coach * James McAvoy (born 1979), Scottish actor * Jess McAvoy, Australian musician * Jock McAvoy (1908窶1971), British boxer * John McAvoy (other) * May McAvoy (1899窶 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North America And West Indies Station
The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 to 1956. The North American Station was separate from the Jamaica Station until 1830 when the two combined to form the North America and West Indies Station. It was briefly abolished in 1907 before being restored in 1915. It was renamed the America and West Indies Station in 1926. It was commanded by Commanders-in-Chief whose titles changed with the changing of the formation's name, eventually by the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station. History The squadron was formed in 1745 to counter French forces in North America, with the headquarters at the Halifax Naval Yard in Nova Scotia (now CFB Halifax). The area of command had first been designated as the North American Station in 1767, under the command of Commodore Samuel Hood, with the headquarters in Halifax from 1758 to 1794, and thereafter in Halifax and Bermu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Blanche (1867) AWM 302147
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Blanche'': * was a 36-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1779. She foundered in 1780. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1786, at Bursledon and wrecked in 1799 off Holland. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1800 and captured and burnt in 1805 by four French ships off Puerto Rico. * HMS ''Blanche'' was a 38-gun fifth rate, previously the Spanish ship ''Amfitrite''. She was captured by Sir Richard Strachan in in 1804 and taken into service as , and renamed HMS ''Blanche'' in 1805. She was wrecked off Ushant in 1807. * HMS ''Blanche'' was a 28-gun sixth rate, previously the French privateer ''Bellone''. , assisted by , captured her off Ceylon in the action of 9 July 1806. She was taken into service as and was renamed HMS ''Blanche'' in 1809, before being broken up in 1814. * was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1819. She was used as a receiving hulk at Portsmouth from 1852 until she was broken up in 186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
_at_St_Paul_Island.jpg "Click for more on -> ﾃ四e Saint-Paul")
