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Haitian Gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot
''Crête-à-Pierrot'' was a gunboat in the Haitian Navy named after the 1802 Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in the Haitian Revolution (1791 – 1804). The boat was destroyed by Admiral Hammerton Killick in 1902 to prevent it falling into the hands of a German warship. Description The ship displaced 950 tons. It was powered by a triple expansion steam engine driving a single screw propeller, giving a speed of . Armament comprised a 16 cm, 12 cm and four 10 cm guns, four Nordenfelt machine guns and two Maxim machine guns. Commission The Haitian Government commissioned an armed cruiser to be designed by Sir E J Reed and built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co at Hull, Yorkshire, England. The ship was launched as ''Crête-à-Pierrot'', named for the revolutionary battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, on 7 November 1895. After arming in France, it was added to the Haitian Navy in 1896 and considered the Navy's crown jewel, the best of the four ships it possessed at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Crête-à-Pierrot
The Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was a major battle of the Saint-Domingue expedition that took place between 2 March and 24 March 1802 as part of the expedition's efforts to retake the colony of Saint-Domingue from Black general Toussaint Louverture's control. The battle took place at the Crête-à-Pierrot fort ("Little Peter's Crest;" in Haitian Creole ''Lakrèt-a-Pyewo''), east of Saint-Marc on the valley of the Artibonite River. A French army of 2,000 men under Divisional-General Charles Leclerc blockaded the fort, which was defended by Black troops of Louverture's army under General Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The fort was strategically important as it controlled access to the Cahos Mountains. With their food and munitions supplies depleted, Dessalines's troops escaped the French blockade and escaped to the mountains. There, they forces killed numerous white colonists before regaining control of the Crête-à-Pierrot fort on 11 March. On 12 March, the French attempted to capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward James Reed
Sir Edward James Reed, KCB, FRS (20 September 1830 – 30 November 1906) was a British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate. He was the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy from 1863 until 1870. He was a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1906. Early life Edward Reed was born in Sheerness, Kent and was the son of John and Elizabeth Reed. He was a naval apprentice at Sheerness and subsequently entered the School of Mathematics and Naval Construction at Portsmouth. In 1851 he married Rosetta, the sister of Nathaniel Barnaby. Barnaby was at that time a fellow student; he would subsequently succeed Reed as Chief Constructor. In 1852 he entered employment at Sheerness Dockyard, but resigned after a disagreement with the management. He then worked in journalism, including editing the '' Mechanics' Magazine''. In 1860, Reed was appointed secretary of the newly formed Institute of Naval Architects. Naval architect In 1863, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markomannia Incident
The ''Markomannia'' incident was a conflict between Haitian rebels and the German Empire in 1902, sparked by the boarding of the Hamburg steamer ''Markomannia'' by rebel naval forces. Incident The ''Markomannia'' (3335 BRT, 1890) was a steamer of the Hamburg America Line on the West Indies-Hamburg route, commanded by Captain Nansen. On 2 September 1902 she was stopped off the Haitian port of Cap-Haïtien by the Haitian gunboat ''Haitian gunboat Crête-à-Pierrot, Crête-à-Pierrot'' and searched for contraband. The ''Crête à Pierrot'' was under the control of Joseph-Anténor Firmin, Anténor Firmin's faction, which was rebelling against the provisional government of president Boissond Canal. The commander of the ''Pierrot'' was rebel admiral Hammerton Killick. Killick assumed that the ''Markommania'' was carrying weapons and supplies to government forces. She was thus searched by a boarding party and, despite protests from Nansen and the German consul in Cap-Haïtien, transfer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
