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James Haldane Tait
Rear-Admiral James Haldane Tait (1771–1845) was a 19th-century Scottish naval commander during the Napoleonic Wars and through the early 19th century. Life He was born in Glasgow the son of William Tait, a merchant in the Trongate. His mother Margaret Duncan was the sister of Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Admiral Adam Duncan. He joined the Royal Navy in March 1783 aged 12 as captain's servant on . He also saw service on his uncle's ship . On both ships they mainly remained in the Portsmouth area. From 1787 he joined the Navy of the East India Company but on the rise of military tensions between Britain and Spain he rejoined the Navy in September 1790. He was now a midshipman on HMS Defence (1763), HMS ''Defence'', an older and more battle-hardened ship than his earlier commissions. In October 1793 he transferred with the ship's captain, Captain G. Murray, to HMS Duke (1777), HMS ''Duke''. In April 1794, when Murray was promoted to rear-admiral, he followed him to and sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 'Defence' At The Battle Of The First Of June, 1794
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee
Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or 6,420/sq mi, the second-highest in Scotland. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Under the name of Dundee City, it forms one of the 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Angus, the city developed into a burgh in the late 12th century and established itself as an important east coast trading port. Rapid expansion was brought on by the Industrial Revolution, particularly in the 19th century when Dundee was the centre of the global jute industry. This, along with its other major industries, gave Dundee its epithet as the city of "jute, jam and journalism". Today, Dundee is promoted as "One City, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pique (1798)
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Pique'': * was formerly the French ship ''Pique'', a 38-gun fifth rate captured by in 1795. HMS ''Pique'' was wrecked in action with the French ship in 1798. * HMS ''Pique'' was formerly the French ship ''Pallas'', a 36-gun fifth rate, captured in 1800 by a squadron off the coast of France. She was initially named HMS ''Aeolus'' but renamed to ''Pique'' in 1801. Because ''Pique'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (2 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. She was sold for breaking up in 1819. * HMS ''Pique'' was a 46-gun fifth rate ordered in 1825, but cancelled in 1832. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1834, and sent to the eastern Mediterranean in 1840 as part of a squadron under . She was converted to a receiving ship in 1872, lent as a hospital hulk in 1882 and sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, plus The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays, the term West Indies is often interchangeable with the term Caribbean, although the latter may also include some Central and South American mainland nations which have Caribbean coastlines, such as Belize, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nations of Barbados, Bermuda, and Trinidad and Tobago, all of which are geographically distinct from the three main island groups, but culturally related. Origin and use of the term In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to record his arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Junon (1810)
''Bellone'' was a 44-gun ''Consolante''-class frigate of the French Navy. French service ''Bellone'', under the command of Guy-Victor Duperré, departed Saint-Malo on 18 January 1809, bound for the Indian Ocean. She sailed from La Réunion for a combat patrol in August. On 2 November she captured HMS ''Victor''. Twenty days later, she captured the 48-gun Portuguese ''Minerva'' after a 2-hour battle. ''Bellone'' sailed back to La Réunion with her prize, arriving on 2 January 1810. In April 1810, the squadron comprising ''Bellone'', ''Minerve'' and ''Victor'' departed for another patrol, during which they fought the action of 3 July 1810 and the Battle of Grand Port. ''Bellone'' was surrendered to the British when Île de France fell, on 4 December 1810. British service ''Bellone'' was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Junon''. In June 1812, ''Junon'' escorted a convoy from Portsmouth to India. On 8 February 1813, nine boats and 200 men of the squadron of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Venus (1807)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Venus'', after Venus, the goddess of love in Roman mythology: * was a 36-gun fifth-rate launched in 1758. She was reduced to 32 guns in 1792 and renamed HMS ''Heroine'' in 1809. She was sold in 1828. * was a 36-gun fifth rate of the same name captured from the Danes in 1807. She was sold in 1815. * was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1820. She was lent to the Marine Society between 1848 and 1862 as a training ship and was sold in 1864. * was an protected cruiser launched in 1895 and sold in 1921. * was a V-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was converted into a Type 15 frigate between 1951 and 1952, and was sold in 1972. See also * HM hired armed lugger * "Good Ship Venus "Good Ship Venus", also known as "Friggin' in the Riggin", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moraled crew. The tune usually used (especially for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and have nothing to do with north or south. In fact, by looking at a map, the southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas about to the east-southeast. The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself. That oceanic meeting point fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point (about east of the Cape of Good Hope). When following the western side of the African coastline from the equator, however, the Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel more eastward than southward. Thus, the first mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Indies
The East Indies (or simply the Indies), is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery. The Indies refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers, soon after the Cape route was discovered. Nowadays, this term is broadly used to refer to the Malay Archipelago, which today comprises the Philippine Archipelago, Indonesian Archipelago, Malaysian Borneo, and New Guinea. Historically, the term was used in the Age of Discovery to refer to the coasts of the landmasses comprising the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese Peninsula along with the Malay Archipelago. Overview During the era of European colonization, territories of the Spanish Empire in Asia were known as the Spanish East Indies for 333 years before the American conquest. Dutch occupied colonies in the area were known for about 300 years as the Dutch East Indies till Indonesian indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeness (headland)
Dungeness () is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness spans Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, the hamlet of Dungeness, and an ecological site at the same location. It lies within the civil parish of Lydd. Etymology Dungeness's name means "the headland at Denge", referring to nearby Denge Marsh. The marsh is first mentioned in 774 as ''Dengemersc''. Its name may mean "marsh of the pasture district", from Old English ''denn *gē mersc'', or else "marsh with manured land", from Old English ''dyncge mersc''. Nature Ecology Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in Europe. It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and bird life. This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a national nature reserve (NNR), a Special Protection Area ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Volcano (1797)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Volcano''. Two more were planned, but never completed: * was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1778 and sold in 1781. * was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1784. * was an 8-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1797 and sold in 1810. * was originally a 16-gun sloop named HMS ''Heron''. She was reclassified as a bomb vessel in 1810 and renamed HMS ''Volcano''. She was sold in 1816 and became the mercantile ''Jason'', which was wrecked in 1821. * HMS ''Volcano'' was to have been an 8-gun bomb vessel. She was ordered in 1819 and cancelled in 1831. * was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1836. She became a floating factory in 1862 and was broken up in 1894. * HMS ''Volcano'' was to have been a W-class destroyer. She was cancelled in 1918. * HMS ''Volcano'' was a World War II land-based training establishment at Holmrook Hall, Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunbar
Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecclesiastical and civil parish. The parish extends around east to west and is deep at its greatest extent, or , and contains the villages of West Barns, Belhaven, and East Barns (abandoned) and several hamlets and farms. The town is served by Dunbar railway station with links to Edinburgh and the rest of Scotland, as well as London and stations along the north-east England corridor. Dunbar has a harbour dating from 1574 and is home to the Dunbar Lifeboat Station, the second-oldest RNLI station in Scotland. Dunbar is the birthplace of the explorer, naturalist, and influential conservationist John Muir. The house in which Muir was born is located on the High Street, and has been converted into a museum. There is also a commemorative s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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