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HNLMS Wassenaar (1856)
HNLMS ''Wassenaar'', was a unique ship built for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Context The ''Admiraal van Wassenaar'' was part of the 1852 program which started the introduction of screw propelled warships to the Dutch navy. The first phase of the plan consisted of the ''Wassenaar'', two steam corvettes of the ''Medusa'' class, and the steam schooner Montrado. The ''Wassenaar'' was laid down in Amsterdam on 12 February 1853. When she was commissioned in July 1857, she was the first steam frigate of the Dutch Navy. Characteristics Design The ''Wassenaar'' was originally designed and partly built as a sailing frigate. This meant that her dimensions were the same as those of a sailing frigate laid down decades earlier, except that she was about 6.5 m longer. That she was only 6.5 m longer was due to the fact that she was meant to be a frigate with auxiliary power. Therefore, her engine was relatively small, and could be fitted with relatively small adjustments. The first captain of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oosterdok
The Oosterdok ('Eastern Dock') is a former wet dock in Amsterdam. It was created in 1831-1832 by constructing the Oosterdoksdam and the Oosterdoksluis, forming a reliable deep port closed off from the tidal IJ. Context Silting up of Amsterdam harbor The harbor of Amsterdam was basically a place were ships could conveniently anchor on the IJ, immediately before the city. Here smaller ships could attach to a series of interconnected mooring poles called . Larger ships anchored at a small distance from De Laag. There were docks immediately connected to the city, but these were open to the tides. Larger ships did not attach to a quay to unload, but transloaded goods on boats that brought these into the city via the many canals. The approaches to the harbor of Amsterdam suffered from silting up. The most serious problem were the shallows near the island of Pampus in the Zuiderzee. After the French period, King William I of the Netherlands attempted to revitalize the Dutch economy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem I Lock
Willem I Lock is a monumental lock in Amsterdam-Noord. Location Willem I Lock is just across the IJ from railway Station Amsterdam Centraal. The lock is on the IJ-end of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, the other end is near Den Helder, where the Wadden Sea and North Sea meet. The location of Willem I lock is explained by the desire to place the IJ-end of the canal as close as possible to the Port of Amsterdam. For this it was built on the headland Volewijck, sticking out into the IJ. History First plan for a lock near the IJ In late 1818 an inland waterway connection was established between Nieuwediep and Amsterdam. The complete connection could only be used by barges and small vessels that could lower their masts. However, the northernmost section could also be used by ships which could pass the (later) navy lock at Nieuwediep. That same year, King William I asked Inspector General Jan Blanken for proposals that would enable ships to reach Alkmaar, and to pass it. The k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Princess Royal (1853)
HMS ''Princess Royal'' was a 91-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 June 1853 at Portsmouth. She took part in both the Baltic Campaign and the naval bombardment of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. She later served as the flagship of Rear-Admiral George St Vincent King in his role as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station. In 1865, ''Princess Royal'' conveyed Sir Harry Smith Parkes, accompanied by a detachment of Royal Marines, to the treaty port of Yokohama on his appointment as envoy to Japan. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Kerr served as a lieutenant on board ''Princess Royal'' during the ship's deployment to Japan. She was broken up in 1872. For more than 30 years, the wooden figurehead of ''Princess Royal'' adorned the outer wall of Castle's ship breaking yard at Baltic Wharf, Millbank Millbank is an area of central London in the City of Westminster. Millbank is located by the River Thames, east of Pimlico and south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Centurion (1844)
HMS ''Centurion'' was a 80-gun second rate ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the 1840s. Description The ''Vanguard'' class was designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, with each ship built with a slightly different hull shape to evaluate their speed and handling characteristics. ''Centurion'' had a length at the gundeck of and at the keel. She had a beam of , a draught of and a depth of hold of . The ship's tonnage was 2,589 tons burthen.Winfield, p. 173 The ''Vanguard''s had a wartime crew of 720 officers and ratings.Lyon & Winfield, p. 97 The ''Vanguard'' class ships of the line were armed with twenty 32-pounder (56 cwt)"Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 56 cwt referring to the weight of the gun. cannon and two 68-pounder carronades on her lower gundeck, twenty-eight 32-pounder (50 cwt) cannon and another pair of 68-pounder carronades on the upper gundeck. On her quarterdeck were fourteen 32-pounder (42 cwt) cannon and on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Conqueror (1855)
HMS ''Conqueror'' was a 101-gun ''Conqueror''-class screw-propelled first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1855, but spent only six years in service before being wrecked on Rum Cay in what was then the colony of the Bahamas in 1861. Construction and commissioning ''Conqueror'' was one of a two ship class, her sister being . She was built to an 1852 design from the Surveyor’s Department and ordered from Devonport Dockyard on 16 November 1852. She was laid down on 25 July 1853, launched on 2 May 1855 and commissioned on 9 April 1856. She cost a total of £171,116, with £91,244 spent on her hull and a further £50,919 spent on her machinery, from John Penn & Son. Career ''Conqueror'' was initially commanded by Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds and formed part of the Channel Squadron. She was later assigned to operate in the Mediterranean during the Crimean War, and later was based out of Malta, when Hastings Yelverton took command on 22 July 1859. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Royal Albert (1854)
HMS ''Royal Albert'' was a 121 gun three-decker ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1854 at Woolwich Dockyard. She had originally been designed as a sailing ship but was converted to screw propulsion while still under construction. Lithographs of the launch at Woolwich, 13 May 1854 of HMS ''Royal Albert'' screw steamer, claim she has 131 guns. From commissioning at Sheerness she was first commanded by Commander Alexander Little between June and October 1854. From October to November 1854 by Captain Thomas Sabine Pasley while still at Sheerness. From 14 February 1855 to April 1857 she was commanded by Captain William Robert Mends as flagship to Rear-Admiral Edmund Lyons commanding the Mediterranean fleet, then chiefly concerned with the Crimean War. In late December 1855, she sprang a leak whilst on a voyage from the Crimea to Malta and was beached at San Nicholas, Kea, Greece. She was subsequently refloated and taken in to Malta for repairs. From April 1857 to 20 August 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Jurien De La Gravière
Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (19 November 1812 in Brest, Finistère5 March 1892) was a French admiral, son of Admiral Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière, who served through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and was a peer of France under Louis-Philippe. Biography He entered the navy in 1827, was made a commander in 1841, and captain in 1850. During the Crimean War he commanded a ship in the Black Sea. He was promoted to be rear-admiral on 1 December 1855, and appointed to the command of a squadron in the Adriatic in 1859, when he absolutely sealed the Austrian ports with a close blockade. In October 1861 he was appointed to command the squadron in the Gulf of Mexico, and two months later the expedition against Mexico. On 15 January 1862 he was promoted to be vice-admiral. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 he had command of the French Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Thetis (1846)
HMS ''Thetis'' was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. After nearly a decade of service with the British, she was transferred to Prussia in exchange for two steam gunboats. She served with the Prussian Navy, the North German Federal Navy and the Imperial German Navy as a training ship until being stricken in 1871. ''Thetis'' was subsequently converted into a coal hulk and broken up in 1894–95. Description ''Thetis'' was a three-masted, ship-rigged frigate that had a sail area of . Her maximum speed was . The ship was considered to be a very good sea boat and very manoeuvrable, although she did suffer from severe pitching. ''Thetis'' had a crew of 330 officers and ratings in British service, but her crew numbered 35 officers and 345 enlisted men in Prussian service.Gröner, p. 41 Measured at the gundeck, ''Thetis'' had a length of , a beam of and a depth of hold of . She was 1533 tons burthen in size and displaced . Forward, the ship had a draught of and af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Arcole (1855)
''Arcole'' was one of five second-rank, 90-gun, steam-powered ships of the line built for the French Navy in the 1850s. The ship participated in the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859 and was scrapped in 1872. Description The ''Algésiras''-class ships were repeats of the pioneering ship of the line and were also designed by naval architect Henri Dupuy de Lôme. They had a length at the waterline of , a beam of and a depth of hold of . The ships displaced and had a draught of at deep load. Their crew numbered 913 officers and ratings.Winfield & Roberts, p. 70 The primary difference between ''Napoléon'' and the ''Algésiras'' class was that the boilers of the latter ships were moved forward of the engines. ''Arcole'' was powered by a pair of four-cylinder horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines that drove the single propeller shaft using steam provided by eight boilers. The engines were rated at 900 nominal horsepower and produced which gave her a speed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Austerlitz (1852)
The ''Austerlitz'' was a late 100-gun ''Hercule''-class ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ... of the French Navy. Service history Laid down as ''Ajax'', she was renamed ''Austerlitz'' on 28 November 1839, still on keel. In 1850, her rigging was changed for that of a 90-gun, and a steam engine was installed. On 19 September 1854, she ran aground in the Ledsund, in Åland, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was refloated after throwing sixteen of her cannon overboard. She took part in operations in the Black Sea in 1854.Roche, p.58 On 16 April 1855, ''Austerlitz'' ran aground at South Foreland, Kent, United Kingdom in foggy weather. She was refloated the next day. From 1871, she was used as a prison hulk of prisoners of the Paris Commune. Between 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Bretagne (1855)
The ''Bretagne'' was a fast 130-gun three-deck ship of the French Navy, designed by engineer Jules Marielle. Built as a new capital ship meant to improve on the very successful ''Océan'' class, while avoiding the weaknesses found on ''Valmy'', she retained most of the ''Océan'''s design, and incorporated the philosophy of "fast ship of the line" pioneered by ''Napoléon'', with a rounded stern and a two-cylinder, 8-boiler steam engine allowing her a speed of 13.5 knots. The propeller could be retracted to streamline the hull when sailing under sail only. Launched in 1855, she was too late to take part in the Crimean War. She was decommissioned in 1865, becoming a schoolship for boys and sailors in Brest. Struck from the Navy lists in 1880, she was broken up that year. Design and construction ''Bretagne'' was the offspring of an attempt to improve upon the ''Océan'' class by increasing the beam from 16.24 to 16.64 metres. The 1849 budget initially allowed for constructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Thomas Tréhouart
François Thomas Tréhouart (27 April 1798 – 8 November 1873) was a French admiral, notable as the last holder to date of the rank of Admiral of France, to which he was appointed on 20 February 1869. He was a recipient of the grand cross of the Order of Isabella II. He first saw action at Battle of Navarino, Navarino in 1827, then at the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata, blockade of the Rio de la Plata. He was made a contre-amiral on 15 February 1846, becoming a grand officer of the Légion d'honneur on 18 July 1849. He rose to become a vice-admiral on 2 April 1851 before being sent to the Crimean War, Crimea to replace admiral Armand Joseph Bruat, Bruat. He was made préfet maritime of the 2nd maritime arrondissement maritime (Brest, France, Brest) from 1852 to 1855 and promoted to grand cross of the Légion d'honneur on 16 June 1856. He was then a senator (France), senator from 16 August 1859 until his death. 1798 births 1873 deaths Admirals of France Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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