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Single-ship Action
A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions. Single-ship actions Anglo-Spanish War * 1579, March 1 – ''Golden Hind'' captures the Spanish galleon ''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción''. Third Anglo-Dutch War * 1674, February 13 – HMS ''Tyger'' captures ''Schaeckerloo'' (part of the Dutch fleet that conducted the Dutch Raid on North America) outside Cadiz. Golden Age of Piracy * 1720, October 22 – A British merchant sloop commanded by former privateer Jonathan Barnet captures the pirate sloop ''William'' and its owner John Rackham. War of the Austrian Succession * 1743, June 20 – captures the Spanish treasure galleon ''Nuestra Señora de la Covadonga'' * 1746, 21 January – captures the French privateer ''Marianne'' Seven Years War * 1761, 1 January – captures the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamp Mellem Den Engelske Fregat Shannon Og Den Amerikanske Fregat Chesapeak
Kamp or KAMP may refer to: __NOTOC__ Geography * Kamp (river), Austria * Kamp (Bad Doberan), a park in the German town of Bad Doberan * Kamp, a district of the German municipality Kamp-Bornhofen * Kamp, a district of the German municipality Kamp-Lintfort * Kamp Mound Site, Illinois, United States American radio stations * KAMP-LP, a low-power radio station licensed to St. Michael, Alaska * KAMP (University of Arizona), a student-run radio station in Tucson, Arizona * KNX-FM, a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, formerly KAMP (2009) and KAMP-FM (2009–2021) * KAMP (AM), a sports radio station licensed to Aurora, Colorado, and serving the Denver metropolitan area Other uses * Kamp (surname) * Hotel Kämp, Helsinki, Finland * Kamp Store, Kampsville, Illinois, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places * Kutaisi Auto Mechanical Plant (KAMP), Kutaisi, Georgia {{disambiguation, geo, callsign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indiaman
West Indiaman was a general name for any merchantman sailing ship making runs from the Old World to the West Indies and the east coast of the Americas. These ships were generally strong ocean-going ships capable of handling storms in the Atlantic Ocean. The term was used to refer to vessels belonging to the Danish (e.g. ), Dutch, English, and French (e.g. ) West India companies. Similarly, at the time (18th and 19th centuries) people also referred to East Indiamen (ships trading with the East Indies), Guineamen (slave ships), or Greenlandmen ( whalers in the North Seas whale fishery). British West Indiamen tended to be London-built and to sail directly from England (generally London) to the West Indies. Guineamen tended to be built (or owned) in Bristol and Liverpool and to sail from Bristol or Liverpool via West Africa in what is now often referred to as the triangular trade in enslaved people. There were London-based Guineamen, (for example ), and Liverpool-based West Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Trimmer (1782)
HMS ''Trimmer'' was the French privateer cutter ''Anti-Briton'' (or ''Terror of England''), which captured in January 1782 and which the Royal Navy took into service. Early in the French Revolutionary Wars ''Trimmer'' captured a privateer. Though she never sailed again after December 1793, the Navy converted her to a temporary fire ship in 1798. The Admiralty sold her in 1801. Capture ''Anti-Briton'' was commissioned at Dunkirk. From 1781 she was under the command of Captain John Kelly, who went under the alias of Jean Grumlé. Kelly captured the cutter ''Hope'' in August 1781. ''Lloyd's List'' reported in January 1782 that , Jordain, master had been on her way to Liverpool from Jamaica when she encountered the privateer ''Terror of England'', of 22 guns, off the Tuskar Rock, Ireland. After an engagement of three hours ''Molly'' struck. Captain Jordain and four more of his crew had been killed, and several men had been wounded. However, a gale came up and ''Terror of England'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letter Of Marque
A letter of marque and reprisal () was a Sovereign state, government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or French corsairs, corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a foreign state at war with the issuer, licensing international military operations against a specified enemy as reprisal for a previous attack or injury. Captured Prize money, naval prizes were judged before the government's admiralty court for condemnation and transfer of ownership to the privateer. A common practice among Europeans from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century, cruising for enemy prizes with a letter of marque was considered an honorable calling that combined patriotism and profit. Such legally authorized privateering contrasted with unlicensed captures of random ships, known as piracy, which was universally condemned. In practice, the differences between privateers and pirates were sometimes slight, even merely a matter of interpretation. The te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodrich (ship)
Several vessels have been named ''Goodrich'': ''Goodrich'' (1779 ship) * , of 250 tons ( bm), was launched at Newbury. She first appeared in ''Lloyd's Register'' (''LR'') in the volume for 1781 with Buchanan, master, Ingram, owner, and trade London privateer. Captain John Buchanan acquired a letter of marque on 28 December 1780. ''Goodrich'' was armed with twenty 12-pounder guns and six 12-pounder carronades, and had a crew of 120 men. In 1781 she captured a number of valuable prizes, including the Dutch merchantmen ''Leendert & Matthy's'', and ''Margaretta Catharina''. On 10 October 1781 ''Goodrich'' had an inconclusive single ship action with the American letter of marque ''St James'', which was under the command of Thomas Truxtun. ''Goodrich'' was last listed in 1783. ''Goodrich'' (1793 ship) * was a brig launched in Bermuda. She made three voyages as a slave ship between 1795 and 1799. She then became a general merchantman and was wrecked in 1808. ''Goodrich'' (1799 schooner) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capture Of HMS Savage
The Capture of HMS ''Savage'' was a naval battle of the American Revolutionary War involving the American privateer ''Congress'' and the British sloop-of-war HMS ''Savage''. It occurred in September 1781 off South Carolina and is considered one of the hardest-fought single ship actions of the war. Background By 1781 the smaller British vessels blockading Chesapeake Bay were raiding the American coast by means of boat expeditions. One commander involved in the operations was Captain Charles Stirling of the sloop ''Savage'', armed with sixteen 6-pounders. Stirling was noted for having plundered Mount Vernon, the Virginia estate of General George Washington, who was commander in chief of the Continental Army and later the first American president. Shortly after the raid of Mount Vernon, Captain Stirling sailed his ship south. In the early morning of September 6, ''Savage'' was escorting a convoy when she encountered the sloop-of-war ''Congress'' ten leagues from Charleston. Sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress (privateer)
A single-ship action is a naval engagement fought between two warships of opposing sides, excluding submarine engagements; it is called so because there is a single ship on each side. The following is a list of notable single-ship actions. Single-ship actions Anglo-Spanish War * 1579, March 1 – ''Golden Hind'' captures the Spanish galleon ''Nuestra Señora de la Concepción''. Third Anglo-Dutch War * 1674, February 13 – HMS ''Tyger'' captures ''Schaeckerloo'' (part of the Dutch fleet that conducted the Dutch Raid on North America) outside Cadiz. Golden Age of Piracy * 1720, October 22 – A British merchant sloop commanded by former privateer Jonathan Barnet captures the pirate sloop ''William'' and its owner John Rackham. War of the Austrian Succession * 1743, June 20 – captures the Spanish treasure galleon ''Nuestra Señora de la Covadonga'' * 1746, 21 January – captures the French privateer ''Marianne'' Seven Years War * 1761, 1 January – captures the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 1 May 1781
The action of 1 May 1781 was a naval engagement nearly 210 miles off the Port of Brest in which , a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy under Captain George Collier chased, intercepted and captured the 40-gun Spanish frigate ''Santa Leocadia'', captained by Don Francisco Wenthuisen. Battle On 30 April, the 74-gun ship HMS ''Canada'', Captain Sir George Collier, having been detached by Vice-Admiral George Darby, commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, to watch the port of Brest, discovered a squadron of small ships. The squadron dispersed on her approach, upon which ''Canada'' chased the largest, the ''Santa Leocadia''. After a pursuit of , the ''Canada'' overtook the ''Santa Leocadia'' on the morning of 1 May. After a running fight, which lasted up to an hour and a half, and in heavy seas which prevented the ''Canada'' from opening her lower deck ports, the frigate surrendered. She had suffered heavy casualties, with 80 men killed and 106 wounded (nearly half her compleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Of 10 January 1780
The action of 10 August 1780 was a minor naval engagement that took place off Brest, France, Brest during the American Revolutionary War between a Royal Navy frigate and a French Navy frigate. This was the first engagement thought to involve the use of the carronade. Events Background The 36-gun frigate under Captain William Peere Williams-Freeman, William Williams was patrolling off Ushant not far from Brest, France, Brest on the afternoon of 10 August 1780.Winfield p. 208 ''Flora'', as well as her nominal armament also carried six recently-introduced 18-pounder carronades. Through the haze she sighted two vessels, a square-rigged vessel and a cutter, about four miles away. As ''Flora'' approached, the cutter edged away, while the square-rigged vessel waited, accepted battle. Action When the two ships were within two Cable length, cables length the French ship raised her colours and opened fire. Moving in, for over an hour the two frigates battered each other relentlessly; '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy. It was first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, and was used from the last quarter of the 18th century to the mid-19th century. Its main function was to serve as a powerful, short-range, anti-ship and anti-crew weapon. The technology behind the carronade was greater dimensional precision, with the shot fitting more closely in the barrel, thus transmitting more of the propellant charge's energy to the projectile, allowing a lighter gun using less gunpowder to be effective. Carronades were initially found to be very successful, but they eventually disappeared as naval artillery advanced, with the introduction of rifling and consequent change in the shape of the projectile, exploding shells replacing solid shot, and naval engagements being fought at longer ranges. History The carronade was designed as a short-range naval weapon with a low muzzle velocity f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Flora (1780)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Flora'': * HMS ''Flora'' was a sloop ordered in 1755 but later cancelled. * HMS ''Flora'' was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship ''Vestale''. captured her in 1761 but the Royal Navy scuttled her in 1778 to avoid capture. The Americans salvaged her and she became a letter of marque. The Americans sold her to the French and she became the French privateer ''Flore'' in 1784. She was then recaptured by in 1798 and sold. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1808. Because ''Flora'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, 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. * was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1844. She was on harbour service from 1851 and was sold in 1891. * was an launched in 1893. She was renamed TS ''Indus II'' in 1915 and was sold in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Trumbull (1776)
USS ''Trumbull'' was a 30-gun frigate of the Continental Navy. She was one of the thirteen frigates authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775. According to American sources, they were superior in design and construction to the same class of European vessels in their day. Its keel was laid down in March or April 1776 at Chatham, Connecticut, by John Cotton and was launched on 5 September 1776. Troubled launch After the frigate had been launched, her builders discovered that her deep draft would make it extremely difficult to get the ship across the bar at the mouth of the Connecticut River into Long Island Sound. The following spring, as ''Trumbull'' lay in the river at Saybrook awaiting assistance in getting out to deep water, her safety became a matter of great concern to Continental naval authorities. In April General Howe ordered General Tryon — the Royal Governor of New York — to lead a raid into neighboring Connecticut. Tryon's forces landed at Fair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
