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Hired Armed Vessels
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels. These were generally smaller vessels, often cutters and luggers, that the Navy used for duties ranging from carrying and passengers to convoy escort, particularly in British coastal waters, and reconnaissance.Winfield (2008), p.387. Doctrine The Navy Board usually hired the vessel complete with master and crew rather than bareboat. Contracts were for a specified time or on an open-ended monthly hire basis. During periods of peace, such as the period between the Treaty of Amiens and the commencement of the Napoleonic Wars, the Admiralty returned the vessels to their owners, only to rehire many on the outbreak of war. The Admiralty provided a regular naval officer, usually a lieutenant for the small vessels, to be the commander. The civilian master then served as the sailing master. For purposes of prize money or salvage, hired armed vessels received the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Cutter
Armed (May, 1941–1964) was an American Thoroughbred gelding horse racing, race horse who was the American Horse of the Year in 1947 and Eclipse Award for Outstanding Older Male Horse, Champion Older Male Horse in both 1946 and 1947. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1963. Background Armed was sired by the great graded stakes race, stakes winner Bull Lea, the sire of Citation (horse), Citation. His dam was Armful, whose sire was Belmont Stakes winner Chance Shot (horse), Chance Shot and whose grandsire was the great Fair Play (horse), Fair Play. Besides being small for his age and very headstrong, Armed had the habits of biting and kicking hay out of his handler's pitchfork. Since he was also practically untrainable, his horse trainer, trainer, Ben A. Jones, sent him back to Calumet Farm to be gelding, gelded and turned out to grow up. He returned to the track late in his two-year-old season and resumed training. Racing career His first s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Lugger Nile
At least two vessels known as His Majesty's hired armed lugger ''Nile'' served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. These may have been the same vessel on sequential contracts. The first lugger ''Nile'' The first lugger ''Nile'' had a burthen of 176, and was armed with two 6-pounder guns and ten 12-pounder carronades. She served on a contract from 23 March 1799 to 21 November 1801. From 1799 to 1800 ''Nile'' was under the command of Lieutenant Ricard Whitehead. On 12 January 1800 ''Nile'' was under the command of her master, Stephen Butcher (or Bucher), Lieutenant Whitehead being ill on shore, when she captured the French privateer lugger ''Moderé''. ''Modere'' was armed with four 4-pounder guns and had a crew of 42 men. She was only six hours out of Boulogne and hand not taken anything. As ''Nile'' was boarding her prize, came up. Captain Baker, of ''Nemesis'' took ''Moderé'' in charge and took her, as well as another captured privateer, ''Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armed Boarding Steamer
An armed boarding steamer (or "armed boarding ship", or "armed boarding vessel") was a merchantman that the British Royal Navy converted to a warship during the First World War. AB steamers or vessels had the role of enforcing wartime blockades by intercepting and boarding foreign vessels. The boarding party would inspect the foreign ship to determine whether to detain the ship and send it into port or permit it to go on its way. Origins On 28 September 1914 Admiral John Jellicoe, commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet, sent a telegram in which he pointed out that he did not have enough destroyers available to enforce the blockade. Furthermore, the weather was often too severe for the destroyers. Although Jellicoe did not mention it, after the loss on 22 September of the cruisers , and , he also did not want large warships making themselves sitting targets for submarines by stopping to examine merchant vessels. The first request was for 12 vessels, all to be capable of , be abl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smack (ship)
A smack was a traditional fishing boat used off the coast of Britain and the Atlantic coast of America for most of the 19th century and, in small numbers, up to the Second World War. Many larger smacks were originally cutter-rigged sailing boats until about 1865, when smacks had become so large that cutter main booms were unhandy. The smaller smacks retain the gaff cutter rig. The larger smacks were lengthened and re-rigged and new ketch-rigged smacks were built, but boats varied from port to port. Some boats had a topsail on the mizzen mast, while others had a bowsprit carrying a jib. Large numbers of smacks operated in fleets from ports in the UK such as Brixham, Grimsby and Lowestoft as well as at locations along the Thames Estuary. In England the sails were white cotton until a proofing coat was applied, usually after the sail was a few years old. This gave the sails its distinctive red ochre colour, which made them a picturesque sight in large numbers. Smacks were often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Ship London Packet
''London Packet'' was a merchant vessel launched on the Thames in 1791. She served the Royal Navy as a Hired armed ship from 31 March 1793 to at least 30 September 1800, and despite some records, apparently for a year or more beyond that. She then returned to sailing as a merchant man until an American privateer captured her in May 1814. Merchantman ''London Packet'' entered ''Lloyd's Register'' (''LR'') in 1791. Hired armed ship ''London Packet'' was commissioned in April 1793 under Lieutenant J.E. Douglas. Then from May 1794 or so, Lieutenant James Fegan (or Fogan) was captain, with A. Hill as master, at least in 1799. On 27 February 1795 ''Lloyd's List'' (''LL'') reported that the armed ship ''London Packet'' had recaptured ''Monmouth'', Blackburn, master. ''Monmouth'' had been sailing from Jamaica to London when the French had captured her. Unfortunately, ''Monmouth'' was then lost on the rocks at the Isles of Scilly The Isles of Scilly (; kw, Syllan, ', or ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Lugger Duke Of York
His Majesty's Hired armed lugger ''Duke of York'' served the Royal Navy from 14 October 1794 to 2 January 1799 when she foundered in the North Sea. She was of 57 tons ( bm) and was armed with eight 4-pounder guns. She may have been the lugger by the same name that on 28 October 1793 received a letter of marque. That ''Duke of York'' was described as being under the command of Richard Mowle, having a burthen of 54 tons, being armed with six 4-pounder guns and six swivels, and having a crew of 23. Service with the Royal Navy On 31 January 1795 ''Duke of York'' was part of a squadron under Captain Sir John Borlase Warren that seized the Dutch East India Ship ''Ostenhuyson''. On 26 February, ''Pomone'', under Captain Warren, captured a 12-gun schooner off the Île de Groix, near Lorient. She was the French Convention navy, American-built ''Coureuse'' and she was escorting a convoy of three brigs and two luggers from Brest to Lorient. The frigates ''Artois'' and ''Galatea'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Lugger Aristocrat
His Majesty's hired armed vessel ''Aristocrat'' served the Royal Navy, twice, as a lugger from 1794 to 1798, and as a brig from 1799 to 1801. She served with the Jersey-based Channel Islands flotilla under Commodore Philippe d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon. As a lugger she participated in two notable engagements, the second of which won for her crew the Naval General Service Medal, awarded some 50 years later. As a brig, she captured two privateers. HM hired armed lugger ''Aristocrat'' On her first contract, ''Aristocrat'' served from 2 November 1794 to 9 December 1798. The owner and original master of the vessel were Mr Henry Wilkins. She was armed with four 6-pounder and eight 4-pounder guns.''Naval Chronicle'', Vol. 15, pp.310-4. She was of 172 tons ( bm), and Admiralty records later give her armament as twenty-two 4-pounder guns. In 1793, at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Governor of Jersey Alexander Lindsay had opened communications between England and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM Hired Brig Telegraph (1798)
HM hired brig ''Telegraph'' was built in 1798 and served on contract to the Royal Navy from 10 November. During the French Revolutionary Wars she took several prizes and was the victor in one notable ship action before she was lost at sea with all hands in 1801. ''Telegraph'' vs ''Hirondelle'' At daylight on 18 March 1799, ''Telegraph'', under Lieutenant James Andrew Worth, was some leagues northwest of the Île de Batz when she encountered the French privateer ''Hirondelle''. ''Hirondelle'' was armed with sixteen mixed 8-pounder and 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 72, to ''Telegraph''s 60 men. ''Hirondelle'' was three days out of St Malo and had taken two prizes, an American schooner and an English sloop. The need for two prize crews had reduced her crew from the 89 men with which she had started. ''Hirondelle'' tacked to meet ''Telegraph'' and the two vessels started an exchange of fire at 0730 hours. Each tried to board the other, but finally, at 1100 hours, ''Hirondelle'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Vessel Sir Thomas Pasley
The Royal Navy employed two vessels designated as His Majesty's Hired armed vessel ''Sir Thomas Pasley'' during the French Revolutionary Wars. The two vessels were named for Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley. The vessels are also sometimes described as cutters, but more generally as brigs. The Spanish captured the first ''Sir Thomas Pasley''. The second had a brief, but highly productive, career that later led to her crew qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal. After she was returned to her owners in March 1802, she may have been wrecked in the Mediterranean that same year. Records of their service are far from complete and even their name is ambiguous as contemporary records refer to them interchangeably as ''Admiral Pasley'', ''Pasley'', and ''Sir Thomas Pasley''. (The National Maritime Museum's database has all three names, with considerable overlap in the service notes.) Sometimes the vessel is referred to as ''Paisley'', ''Admiral Paisley'', or ''Sir Thomas Paisley''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Cutter Courier
His Majesty's hired armed cutter ''Courier'' appears twice in the records of the British Royal Navy. The size and armament suggests that both contracts could represent the same vessel, but other information indicates that the second ''Courier'' had been captured from the French in the West Indies. On the first contract the captain and crew were awarded clasps to the Naval General Service Medal, one for a boat action and one for a single ship action in which they distinguished themselves. First contract The first contract for ''Courier'' was from 6 June 1798 to 1 November 1801.Winfield (2008), p.389. She was of 116 tons ( bm) and carried an armament of twelve 4-pounder guns. She had a crew of 40 men. In 1799 she was under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Searle, in the North Sea. On 15 April he recaptured the ''Nelly'' from the French privateer ''Vengeur''.Ralfe (1972), pp.318-20. On 16 April, ''Courier'' was in company with , and when they captured the Prussian hoy ''Dolphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hired Armed Brig Ann
There were two, and possibly three, vessels named His Majesty's hired armed brig ''Ann'' (or ''Anne'') that served the British Royal Navy. The first participated in an engagement in 1807 that would earn her crew the Naval General Service Medal. She is sometimes referred to in sources as the hired armed cutter ''Ann'' or the hired armed brig ''Anne''. Little or nothing is known of the second and third hired armed brigs ''Ann'' or ''Anne''. First hired armed brig ''Ann'' The first hired armed brig ''Ann'' served the Royal Navy from 21 May 1804 to 28 July 1809. She was of 120 tons ( bm) and carried ten 12-pounder carronades. Prize taking In June 1804 ''Ann'' was under the command of Lieutenant John Sherriff. Later that year she was in company with when ''Cruizer'' captured the French privateer ''Contre Amiral Magon'' on 16 October 1804. The gun-brig and the hired armed cutter were also in company. The French brig was under the command of Captain Blauckman, was newly built and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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