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Hermione-class Frigate (Royal Navy)
The ''Hermione''-class frigate was a 32-gun 5th-rate frigate class of 6 ships designed by Edward Hunt based on his Active-class frigate, approved on 25 March 1780. The initial design was modified after the first two ships to raise the waist, and all were officially referred to as the ''Andromeda Class''. Ships in class * HMS ''Hermione'' 1782 – seized by mutineers on 22 September 1797, given to the Spanish garrison at La Guaira, cut out of the harbour and retaken on 25 October 1799, renamed ''Retaliation'' shortly after, renamed Retribution in 1800, presented to Trinity House in 1803 * HMS ''Druid'' 1783 – fitted as troopship from 1798 to 1805, broken up 1813 * HMS ''Andromeda'' 1784 – broken up 1811 * HMS ''Penelope'' 1783 – broken up 1797 * HMS ''Aquilon'' 1786 – broken up 1816 * HMS ''Blanche'' 1786 – wrecked in the entrance to the Texel References *''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates'' (2014 Age of Sail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5th-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) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Active-class Frigate
The ''Active''-class frigate was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate class of eight ships designed by Edward Hunt to replace the design, which they resembled with a distinct midsection. Due to poor performance of the ''Active'' class, orders continued for the ''Amazon'' class. Description The ''Active'' class was designed with a gundeck, measuring at the keel, at the beam, and a draught of . They displaced tons burthen. The class was designed with an armament of 26 cannon on the gundeck, four guns on the quarterdeck with four carronades, and two 6 pdr guns and two 24 pdr carronades on the forecastle. Ships in class * - wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads Castle Roads is the primary channel by which vessels enter Castle Harbour, Bermuda, from the Atlantic Ocean. Although little used, today, except by pleasure boats, Castle Harbour was once an important anchorage, and an access route used by ships ... * – wrecked on Anticosti Island in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hermione (1782)
HMS ''Hermione'' was the lead ship of the ''Hermione''-class, a six-ship class of 32-gun fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 9 September 1782 at Bristol. ''Hermione'' was commissioned and then paid off a number of times during the 1780s. She underwent repairs between October 1790 and June 1792, followed by a period spent refitting at Chatham Dockyard until January 1793. She was recommissioned in December 1792 before sailing to the Jamaica in March 1793. ''Hermione'' served in the West Indies during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars, participating in the British attack on Port-au-Prince, where she led a small squadron that accompanied troop transports. In February 1797 — the year of the Spithead and Nore mutinies — Captain Hugh Pigot took command of ''Hermione''. She saw action in 1797 under Pigot including leading a squadron that cut out nine ships at the Battle of Jean-Rabel without suffering any casualties. Pigot was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guaira
La Guaira () is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of the same name (formerly named Vargas) and the country's main port. It was founded in 1577 as an outlet for Caracas, to the southeast. The town and the port were badly damaged during the December 1999 floods and mudslides that affected much of the region. The city hosts its own professional baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, the Tiburones de La Guaira. They have won seven national championships since their founding in 1962. History After the founding of Caracas by Spanish in 1567, toward the turn of the 16th century, the Port of La Guaira emerged on the coast and, since that time, has been the gateway to Caracas. This coastal city, almost without land to develop and bathed by the Caribbean Sea, became an important harbour during the 18th century. Attacked by buccaneers and by the English, Dutch, and French armadas, La Guaira was transformed into a fortified, walled city. During the Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Druid (1783)
HMS ''Druid'' was a 32-gun ''Hermione''-class fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1783 at Bristol. She served in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, capturing numerous small prizes. One of her commanders, Captain Philip Broke, described ''Druid'' as a "point of honour ship", i.e., a ship too large to run but too small to fight. He and his biographer's view was that it was a disgrace to use a ship like her as a warship. She was broken up in 1813, after a thirty-year career. Career ''Druid'' entered service in 1783 under the command of Captain John MacBride. He was succeeded the following year by Captain George Byron, who commanded her off Land's End.Winfield (2007), p. 212. Captain Joseph Ellison replaced Byron in 1785, and remained in command for the next ten years. ''Druid'' served as a Royal escort between 1785 and 1788, returning to service in 1791 after a period paid off and under refit. ''Druid'' and the smugglers On 31 January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Andromeda (1784)
HMS ''Andromeda'' was a 32-gun ''Hermione''-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1781 and launched in 1784 . She was commissioned for the first time in 1788 when Captain Prince William Henry took command of her and sailed for the West Indies. Prince William Henry paid her off in 1789 and she was not commissioned again until 1790 in response to the Spanish Armament. In 1792 ''Andromeda'' joined the Royal Navy's Evolution Squadron in the English Channel before sailing for the Leeward Islands where she stayed until the end of 1793 when Captain Lord Northesk brought her home. She was refitted for much of 1794 before in September joining the Downs Station. Captain William Taylor assumed command in 1795, briefly sailing her to Newfoundland before returning to the North Sea Fleet in 1796. She stayed here for 3 years, seizing the 36-gun Batavian frigate ''Zefir'' in the Firth of Forth in March 1798 and participating in the Raid on Dunkirk in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Penelope (1783)
Nine ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Penelope'', after the faithful wife Penelope of Greek mythology. * The first was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1778 and captured by her Spanish prisoners in 1780. * The second was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1783 and broken up 1797. * The third was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1798 and wrecked in 1815. * The fourth was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1829 but completed in 1843 as a paddle frigate, and sold for breakup in 1864. * The fifth was an armoured corvette launched in 1867 that became a prison hulk in 1897 and was sold in 1912. * The sixth was an light cruiser launched in 1914 and sold in 1924. * The seventh was a tender purchased in 1918 and sold in 1922. * The eighth was an light cruiser launched in 1935 and sunk off Naples in 1944. * The ninth was a launched in 1962 and sold to Ecuador in 1991, which operated her as ''Presidente Eloy Alfaro''. Battle honours Ships named ''Penelope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Aquilon (1786)
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Aquilon'', to commemorate the destruction of the French ship Aquilon, French ship ''Aquilon'' by HMS Antelope (1741), HMS ''Antelope'' in 1757. Aquilo (god), Aquilon was originally the Ancient Rome, Roman name for the North Wind. * of 1758 was a sixth-rate frigate which served in the navy until 1776. * of 1786 was a fifth-rate frigate during the French Revolutionary Wars, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, broken up in 1815. * HMS ''Aquilon'' was a small warship which was renamed before commissioning. Another Spanish ship Aquilon (1754), ''Aquilon'' was captured in Havana in 1762 and commissioned into the Royal Navy, serving until 1770. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aquilon, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Blanche (1786)
HMS ''Blanche'' was a 32-gun ''Hermione''-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy. She was ordered towards the end of the American War of Independence, but only briefly saw service before the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793. She enjoyed a number of successful cruises against privateers in the West Indies, before coming under the command of Captain Robert Faulknor. He took the ''Blanche'' into battle against a superior opponent and after a hard-fought battle, forced the surrender of the French frigate ''Pique''. Faulknor was among those killed on the ''Blanche''. She subsequently served in the Mediterranean, where she had the misfortune of forcing a large Spanish frigate to surrender, but was unable to secure the prize, which then escaped. Returning to British waters she was converted to a storeship and then a troopship, but did not serve for long before being wrecked off the Texel in 1799. Construction and commissioning ''Blanche'' was ordered from the yar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texel
Texel (; Texels dialect: ) is a municipality and an island with a population of 13,643 in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the largest and most populated island of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. The island is situated north of Den Helder, northeast of Noorderhaaks, and southwest of Vlieland. Name The name ''Texel'' is Frisian, but because of historical sound-changes in Dutch, where all -x- sounds have been replaced with -s- sounds (compare for instance English ''fox'', Frisian ''fokse'', German ''Fuchs'' with Dutch ''vos''), the name is typically pronounced ''Tessel'' in Dutch. History The All Saints' Flood (1170) created the islands of Texel and Wieringen from North Holland. In the 13th century Ada, Countess of Holland was held prisoner on Texel by her uncle, William I, Count of Holland. Texel received city rights in 1415. The first Dutch expedition to the Northwest Passage departed from the island on the 5th of June, 1594. Texel was involved in the Battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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