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HMS Norge (1807)
HDMS ''Norge'' was a Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy ship-of-the-line, built to a design by F. C. H. Hohlenberg. The British Royal Navy seized her in 1807, together with the rest of the Danish fleet after the second battle of Copenhagen. She served off Spain, in the editerranean, and in the North Sea. Then in 181 In British Service She was fitted out at Portsmouth from 21 November 1807 to 11 December 1808. Napoleonic Wars She was commissioned in April 1808 under Captain Edmund Boger. She was at Corunna in January 1809. It had been intended to rename her as ''Nonsuch'' in 1809 but the order was rescinded. From 1810 she was commanded by Captain John Sprat Rainier and was in the vicinity of Cadiz. In 1811 she was under the command of Temporary Captain William Waller, deployed in the Mediterranean. From 1812 to 1814, she was under the command of Captain Samuel Jackson, and sailed the North Sea. War of 1812 In August 1814, she was under the command of Captain Charles Dashwood. In Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pendennis Castle
Pendennis Castle (Cornish: ''Penn Dinas'', meaning "headland fortification") is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal. The original, circular keep and gun platform was expanded at the end of the century to cope with the increasing Spanish threat, with a ring of extensive stone ramparts and bastions built around the older castle. Pendennis saw service during the English Civil War, when it was held by the Royalists, and was only taken by Parliament after a long siege in 1646. It survived the interregnum and Charles II renovated the fortress after his restoration to the throne in 1660. Ongoing concerns about a possible French invasion resulted in Pendennis's defences being modernised and upgraded in the 1730s and again during the 1790s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Asia (1811)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Asia'', after the continent of Asia: * was a hulk purchased in 1694 and foundered in 1701. * was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1764 and broken up in 1804. * was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1811. She was renamed HMS ''Alfred'' in 1819, reduced to 50-guns in 1828 and broken up in 1865. * was an 84-gun second rate launched in 1824. She was used as a guardship from 1858 and was sold in 1908. * was an auxiliary cruiser of the British Caspian Flotilla The British Caspian Flotilla was a naval force of the Royal Navy established in the Caspian Sea in 1918. It was part of the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The flotilla initially reported to the Rear-Admiral Commanding, Black Sea, ... from 1918 to 1919. {{DEFAULTSORT:Asia, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Ramillies (1785)
HMS ''Ramillies'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe. French Revolutionary Wars On 4 April 1796, ''Ramilies'' ran down and sank the hired armed lugger ''Spider'' while maneuvering. In 1801, ''Ramilies'' was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen, and so did not take an active part in the battle. Expedition to occupy the Danish West Indies (1807) In 1807 ''Ramillies'' was in the West Indies as part of a squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, who sailed in ''HMS Belleisle''. The squadron, which included ''HMS Prince George'', ''HMS Northumberland'', ''HMS Canada'' and ''HMS Cerberus'', captured the ''Telemaco'', ''Carvalho'' and ''Master'' on 17 April 1807. Following the concern in Britain that neutral Denmark was entering an alliance with Napoleon, in December ''Ramillies'' participated in Cochrane's expedition that captured the Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Starr (1805)
HMS ''Starr'' was a 16-gun ''Merlin''-class ship sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built by Tanner, of Dartmouth, to plans by Sir William Rule, and launched in July 1805. As a sloop she served on convoy duty, though she also participated in the invasion of Martinique in early 1809. She was rebuilt as a bomb vessel in May 1812 and renamed ''Meteor''. As ''Meteor'' she served in the Baltic and then off the United States, participating in attacks on up the Potomac and on Baltimore and New Orleans. She was sold in October 1816. Napoleonic Wars She was commissioned in October 1805 under Commander John Simpson. On 3 January 1806 she recaptured the ships ''Argo'' and ''Adventure'', and shared in the recapture of the ''Good Intent''. ''Starr'' was off Villa de Conde, Portugal, when she intercepted the vessels, which had been taken from a convoy that had been escorting from Newfoundland to Portugal, and both of which had been carrying cargoes of fish. ''Starr'' sighted ''Good Inten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hydra (1797)
HMS ''Hydra'' launched in 1797 was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. From 1813 to 1817 she served as a troopship. She was sold in 1820. She was built to the design of the captured French frigate ''Melpomene'' (taken in 1794). French Revolutionary Wars ''Hydra'' was commissioned in April 1797 under Captain Sir Francis Laforey. At the action of 30 May 1798, ''Hydra'', in company with the bomb vessel and the cutter , ran aground the French corvette ''Confiante'', which was destroyed. The corvette ''Vésuve'' and an unnamed cutter also ran ashore, but the British were not able to destroy them. On 16 December 1800 ''Traveller'' foundered in the Atlantic Ocean (). ''Hydra'' rescued the crew. ''Traveller'' had been on a voyage from Martinico to London. ''Hydra'' was anchored at the Nore on Sunday 17 May 1801 (as recorded in the journal of Captain Matthew Flinders of ). Napoleonic Wars Under the command of Captain George Mundy, for eight years from October 1802 to Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Herald (1806)
HMS ''Herald'' was an 18-gun ship-sloop of the ''Cormorant'' class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Littlehampton. In 1810 she was reclassed as a 20-gun sixth rate ship (but without being re-armed), and again re-rated as 24 guns in 1817, just before she was broken up. Adriatic ''Herald'' was commissioned in March 1806 under Captain G. M. Hony. On 18 May 1807 he sailed her to the Mediterranean, where he proceeded to cruise off Corfu in the early stages of the Adriatic campaign. ''Herald'' attacked French shipping off the island and later in the year cruised off the Dardanelles before returning to the Adriatic off Otranto, attacking a number of coastal merchant vessels with success. On 25 October 1807, ''Herald'' was off Otranto when she found an armed ''trabaccolo'' anchored under the fortress. Despite resistance, ''Herald's'' boats cut out the vessel, which turned out to be the French privateer ''César'', armed with four 6-pounders. ''César'' was sailing from Ancon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Gorgon (1785)
HMS ''Gorgon'' was a 44-gun fifth-rate two-decker ship of the of 911 tons, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1785 and completed as a troopship. She was subsequently converted to a storeship. She also served as a guardship and a hospital ship at various times before being broken up in 1817. Troopship ''Gorgon'' was fitted as a troopship at Portsmouth at a cost of £5,210, the work being completed on 15 December 1787. Lieutenant Charles Craven commissioned her in October 1787. She then was paid off one year later. One year after that, she was fitted for foreign service at an additional cost of £5,200 and recommissioned under Lieutenant William Harvey in October 1789. New South Wales Under Commander John Parker (c1749–1794), she went to New South Wales on 15 March 1791, along with the Third Fleet, arriving on 21 September 1791. She carried six months provisions for 900 people in the starving colony. She also carried about 30 convicts, and Philip Gidley King, who was returning to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Fox (1780)
HMS ''Fox'' was a 32-gun ''Active''-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 2 June 1780 at Bursledon, Hampshire by George Parsons. Early career ''Fox'' was sent to the Caribbean in late 1781 and in January the following year under Captain Thomas Windsor captured two Spanish frigates. In March 1783 under Captain George Stoney captured the Spanish frigate ''Santa Catalina''. ''Fox'' was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands. In March 1797, near Visakhapatnam, ''Fox'' captured the French privateer ''Modeste'', under Jean-Marie Dutertre.Demerliac, p. 308, no 2898 Took part in the bloodless Raid on Manila in January 1798. Given that ''Fox'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March and 2 September 1801, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dictator (1783)
HMS ''Dictator'' was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in 1798, and broken up in 1817. French Revolutionary Wars At the "Reduction of Trinidad" in 1797 ''Dictator'' participated in the later stages, not having arrived until 18 February, the prize money awarded reflecting this late arrival. On 8 March 1801, whilst disembarking the army at the Battle of Aboukir during the French campaign in Egypt, one seaman was killed and a midshipman, Edward Robinson, fatally wounded. Prize money for the capture of enemy ships was usually shared with other warships in the squadron between 1801 and 1806. Because ''Dictator'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. Napoleonic Wars In the late summer of 1807 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cydnus (1813)
HMS ''Cydnus'' was one of eight Royal Navy 38-gun ''Cydnus''-class fifth-rates. This frigate was built in 1813 at Blackwall Yard, London, and broken up in 1816. Design, construction and armament The entire class was a version of the frigates, but built of red fir (pine), which was cheaper and more abundant than oak. Most importantly, it permitted noticeably faster construction, but at a cost of reduced durability. To enable the new frigate to meet the American frigates on less unequal terms, ''Cydnus'', and her sister received medium 24-pounders and an increased complement of men. ''Cydnus''s 24-pounders were of a design by General Sir Thomas Blomefield, 1st Baronet and measured 7 ft. 6 in. in length while weighing about 40 cwt. The 24-pounders on ''Eurotas'' were to a design by Colonel Congreve. During December 1813 and January 1814, ''Cyndus'' and ''Eurotas'' actually temporarily exchanged six 24-pounders, presumably to enable both vessels to test the designs agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Carron (1813)
HMS ''Carron'' was a 20-gun ''Cyrus''-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy built in 1813 by Edward Adams, at Bucklers Hard in Hampshire. She was wrecked in 1820. Career ''Carron'' was first commissioned in January 1814 under Captain Robert Cavendish Spencer (a son of George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer). At Bermuda, on 4 July 1814, ''Carron'' and embarked a company-strength force of Royal Marines, commanded by Edward Nicolls, for deployment on the Gulf Coast. They arrived at the mouth of the Apalachicola River on 14 August 1814. The vessels then took part in the unsuccessful British attack on Fort Bowyer on 15 September 1814 in which ''Hermes'' was lost. For much of the autumn, the ''Carron'' was at Pensacola, until General Andrew Jackson's numerically superior forces expelled the British at the start of November 1814. Shortly thereafter, ''Carron'' made two lucrative captures when on 29 November she captured the schooners ''Hirondelle'' and ''Dos Amigos''. For Spencer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Calliope (1808)
HMS ''Calliope'' was a ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1808. She operated primarily in the North Sea where she captured numerous small merchant vessels and one French privateer. She also was present at the battle of Lake Borgne, near New Orleans. She was broken up in 1829. Napoleonic Wars ''Calliope'' was commissioned in September 1808 under Commander John M'Kerlie. In August–September 1809 ''Calliope'' took part in the ill-fated Walcheren Campaign. In particular, she was at the capture of Flushing on 15 August. On 5 January 1809 ''Calliope'' was in company with off Kingsgate Point near Margate. That evening the two vessels were off Flushing when a heavy gale and snowstorm parted them. ''Pigeon'' grounded and was lost, though almost her entire crew survived. Admiral Sir Richard Strachan then assigned ''Calliope'' to patrol off the north coast of Holland to Heligoland. ''Calliope'' and shared in the proceeds of the capture on 7 March 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
