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Henry Peake
Sir Henry Peake (1753–1825) was a shipbuilder and designer to the Royal Navy who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy. Life He was born in 1753 in (or close to) Portsmouth. He joined the Royal Navy in May 1762 aged only 9, as an apprentice ship's carpenter. "Henry Peake" who is noted as Master Boat Builder at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1762 clearly cannot be the same person and this is probably his father. The Royal Navy list his works from 1779 when he became Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard. In June 1806 he replaced John Henslow (Surveyor of the Navy), Sir John Henslow as Surveyor of the Navy, working alongside William Rule (Surveyor of the Navy), Sir William Rule. Hos position as Surveyor of the Navy was filled by Sir Robert Seppings, Ropert Seppings in 1813 but he did not officially retire until 1822. He was knighted by King George IV, the Prince Regent on 25 June 1814. Peake died in 1825. Family He was married to Sarah Ladd. They had several sons who became eminent Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Hebe (1804)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Hebe'', after the Greek goddess Hebe (mythology), Hebe. * was a French 38-gun sailing frigate, 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 (1847), Naval General Service Medal, which the British Admiralty, 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 (ship), minesweeper in 1909, and sold 1919. * was a launched in 1936 and sunk by a Naval mine, 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 nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1825 Deaths
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HMS Waterloo (1818)
HMS ''Waterloo'' was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line, launched on 16 October 1818 at Portsmouth. She was designed by Henry Peake, and built by Nicholas Diddams at Portsmouth Dockyard and was the only ship built to her draught. She had originally been ordered as HMS ''Talavera'', but was renamed on the stocks after the Battle of Waterloo. In 1824 ''Waterloo'' was renamed HMS ''Bellerophon''. She formed part of an experimental squadron, which were groups of ships sent out in the 1830s and 1840s to test new techniques of ship design, armament, building and propulsion. She served as flagship to Rear Admiral Sir Charles Paget from 1836 to 1838. Her only meaningful military activity was the bombardment of Sebastopol in June 1854 during the Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesuvius-class Sloop
The ''Vesuvius'' class was a class of steam screw sloops of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The class comprised ''Vesuvius'', ''Cornelis Dirks'', ''Reinier Claessen'', ''Het Loo'', ''Reteh'' and ''Prinses Maria''. Dutch Naval Plans in the 1850s Plan 1855 The Dutch naval plan 1855 stated that the steam corvette of 250 hp and 12 30-pounders (the Groningen-class corvettes) would be the standard warship for the Dutch East Indies. However, the plan also recognized that in the East Indies, there were 'too many points to occupy, too many seas to patrol, and too many corners to penetrate' to use only these still costly ships. The plan 1855 therefore specified a second type of ships for the indies: the sloop of 100 hp. Regular service in the East Indies required 12 such sloops. The West Indies three more, and 2 were required for replacement. In total 17 sloops would be required in peace time, and 20 in times of war. Dutch rating system In Dutch the ''Vesuvius'' class was known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Rapid
Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Rapid'': * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804 and sunk in 1808. * was a British schooner that the French captured in 1806, named ''Villaret'' and renamed ''Rapide'', that the British recaptured in 1808 and employed as a ship's tender, and that was wrecked in 1814. * was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1808 and sold in 1814. * was a 10-gun launched in 1829 and wrecked in 1838. * was an 8-gun brig launched in 1840 and sold in 1856. * was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1860 and broken up in 1881. * was a composite screw corvette launched in 1883. She was hulked in 1906, used as a coal hulk named ''C7'' from 1912. She was converted to an accommodation hulk and renamed HMS ''Hart'' in 1916. She was sold in 1948. * was an launched in 1916 and sold in 1927. * was an R-class destroyer launched in 1942. She was converted into a frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherokee-class Brig-sloop
The ''Cherokee'' class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting ten guns. Brig-sloops were sloops-of-war with two masts (a fore mast and a taller main mast) rather than the three masts of ''ship sloops''. Orders for 115 vessels were placed, including five which were cancelled and six for which the orders were replaced by ones for equivalent steam-powered paddle vessels. Many of these sailing vessels served as mail packet ships, and more than eight assisted with exploration and surveys. The best known of the class was , then considerably modified for ''Beagle''s second survey voyage under Robert FitzRoy, with the gentleman naturalist Charles Darwin on board as a self-funded supernumerary. Design The carronade, nicknamed the "smasher" or "devil gun", was significantly smaller and lighter than conventional cannon. It was also found to have a more destructive broadside at close range, so that a smaller (and cheaper) ship could be more effective in naval actions th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bermuda (1808)
Seven commissioned ships of the British Royal Navy have been named ''Bermuda'' and given the prefix HMS (''Her Majesty's Ship'' or ''His Majesty's Ship'', depending on the sex of the monarch), after the British Overseas Territory and former Imperial fortress of Bermuda. Two other vessels operated by the Royal Navy that were not commissioned warships were also named ''Bermuda''. * was a 14-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1795 that disappeared in September 1796 in the Gulf of Florida. * was an 18-gun sloop-of-war launched in 1805 and wrecked 22 April 1808 with no loss of life. * was a 10-gun brig-sloop built by John Pelham of Frindsbury and launched 1808; she was wrecked 16 November 1816, with the loss of one life. * was a pilot boat acquired in 1813 and broken up 1817. * was a schooner purchased 1819 and foundered in March 1821 near Bermuda with the loss of her entire crew. * was a 3-gun schooner launched 1848 and wrecked 20 January 1855, with no loss of life. * was a cru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Brunswick (1790)
HMS ''Brunswick'' was a 74-gun third rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 April 1790 at Deptford. She was first commissioned in the following month under Hyde Parker (admiral), Sir Hyde Parker for the Spanish Armament but was not called into action. When the Russian Armament was resolved without conflict in August 1791, ''Brunswick'' took up service as a guardship in Portsmouth Harbour. She joined Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Richard Howe's Channel Fleet at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War and was present at the battle on Glorious First of June where she fought a hard action against the French 74-gun ''French ship Vengeur du Peuple, Vengeur du Peuple''. ''Brunswick'' was in a small squadron under William Cornwallis that Cornwallis's Retreat, encountered a large French fleet in June 1795. The British ships successfully retreated into the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic through a combination of good seamanship, good fortune and Military deception, deceivin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Minerva (1805)
HMS ''Minerva'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805 at Deptford. Her namesake was the Roman goddess Minerva. A wartime lack of building materials meant that ''Minerva'' and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the , and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.Winfield, British Warships, p. 494. Service history From February 1806 ''Minerva'' served under Captain George Collier in the English Channel.Winfield, British Warships, p. 497. On 27 April she took the 14-gun Spanish privateer ''La Finisterre'' with . ''Minerva'' then took part in a number of small-boat operations on the coast, including taking an 8-gun fort and cutting out 5 Spanish coasters on 22 June.Laird Clowes, The Royal Navy vol. 5, p.384. For this action her First Lieutenant, William Mulcaster, received a sword of £50 value from Lloyd's Patriotic Fund. On 11 July of the same year, her barge successfully took the 1-gun lugger ''La Buena Dicha'' after a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
