HMS "Leviathan"

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HMS Leviathan — ist der Name mehrerer nach einem biblischen Seeungeheuer benannter Kriegsschiffe der britischen Royal Navy: Die erste Linienschiff 3.Klasse und lief 1750 unter dem Namen Northumberland vom Stapel. 1777 umbenannt, sank das Schiff 1780 im… … Deutsch Wikipedia Isaac Chandler, Pte, Melksham, Wilts. HMS Euralyus, allotment made to wife, from wages, from Wootton under edge, wife have already died. HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun Third-rate launched in 1807. She was converted to a prison hulk in 1830 and was renamed Fortitude in 1833. She was put on the sale list in 1870 and was subsequently sold.

HMS Wolverine (16), Henry Gordon, while escorting a convoy to Newfoundland, engaged and sunk bytwo French privateers, one Blonde (36) and another (20). HMS Hebrus (36), Cptn. Edmund Palmer,took French Etoile(44), Cptn. Henri Pierre Philibert, andHMS Hannibal (74), Cptn. Sir Michael Seymour, took Sultane (40) in the Channel. Retribution was a prison hulk launched in 1779 as the 74-gun Third-rate HMS Edgar. Edgar was converted into a prison hulk in 1813, renamed Retribution in 1814 and broken up in 1835. And although she was scuttled in 1891 with the venture being unsuccessful, she was soon after refloated and sent to tour the world, arriving in England in 1894. She was still touring in 1912, when crowds gathered at Cobh, Ireland, ‘to give a parting cheer to the venturous old ship,’ as reports the Suffolk and Essex Free Press. The Success was setting off to cross the Atlantic, where she was exhibited at the Great Lakes and San Francisco, before being sunk in 1918 or 1919, and then again refloated. The Success appeared at the Chicago World Fair in 1933. By this time, the war against France was over. After suffering a number of catastrophic defeats, Napoleon had abdicated on 6th April 1814 and had been exiled to the Isle of Elba. The Allies of the Sixth Coalition (comprised of many nations, but mostly various German, and Italian kingdoms, plus Britain, Sweden, Russia and others) had re-installed the French Monarchy under King Louis XVIII. The war was formally ended by the Treaty of Fontainebleu, signed on 11th April 1814. The ending of the war in Europe meant that the British were able to divert resources to defend Canada against invasion by the Americans, because despite the coming of peace in Europe, the war between Britain and the Americans was rumbling on.His parents, George and Dorothy, ran the Goat Inn on nearby Bottle Bank in Gateshead, where the Hilton Hotel now stands. HMS Africa brought the Intrepide to action and engaged the larger and more powerful French ship in a gunnery duel at close range which continued for 45 minutes until the fight was ended when HMS Orion (74) passed the French ship's stern and raked her through it, which brought down her main and mizzen masts. The Intrepide surrendered to HMS Africa when the French spotted HMS Agamemnon (64) and HMS Ajax (74) also heading to join the fight. that their wages be increased (up to this point, the sailors of the Royal Navy had not had a pay rise for over a century) Hebe was a 46-gun Fifth-rate launched in 1826, made a receiving ship in 1840, hulked in 1861, and broken up in 1873. [6]

Resolute was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1805 in Dover. She was used as a tender from 1814, a diving bell vessel from 1816 and a prison hulk from 1844. She was broken up in 1852. Aaron Hubert, 16, Boy, 2nd Class, Cosham sic – (Cotham?), Bristol. aged 16. On “Victory” 1803-6, at Trafalgar. HMS Ocean 1806. Comments: Discharged 26 Oct 1805 Sent in the launch to assist the St Augustine Spanish Prize the boat broke a drift from the ship in a very boisterous night and the men were either lost or made Prisoners. Probably the former.

About a month prior to her launch, on 20th August, an incident occurred aboard the ship where a bag of combustible material weighing about a pound and a half was found in a temporary cabin. The hull was searched but no further suspicious materials were found. The French Revolution had occurred the previous year and although it was supported by the British Government, who hoped that it would lead to the establishment of a Constitutional Monarchy like our own, there was still significant republican sentiment in the UK. In addition, Britain and Spain had spent most of the year on the brink of war in what is now known as the Spanish Armaments Crisis. HMS Leviathan was finally launched into the River Medway on Saturday, 9th October 1790. Boats of HMS Pique (14), Charles Bayne Hodgson Ross, captured Spanish armed schooner Santa Clara off Ocoa Bay Five Dutchships Aagtekerke jacht, Tijger frigate, Luipaard jacht, Bergen op Zoom jacht, and Juffer (flute) lost in the Far East While Queen Elizabeth is now fully operational, her 65,000-tonne younger sister has trials and tests to complete first.

The Combined Fleet was sailing in a ragged line about five miles long, the two British columns heading towards them from seaward about two miles apart. HMS Royal Sovereign engaged the enemy first, being freshly refitted, she had been re-coppered and her clean bottom had allowed her to surge ahead of her column. As she passed astern of the giant Spanish ship Santa Anna (112), she fired a double-shotted broadside through the Spaniard's open and unprotected stern, which Spanish officers were to admit after the battle, had killed and wounded 400 of her crew. On passing the Santa Anna's stern, Collingwood remarked to his Flag-Captain, Captain Edward Rotheram " Rotheram, what would Nelson give to be here today?". At the same time, aboard HMS Victory, Nelson, on seeing HMS Royal Sovereign engage the enemy so far aheard of the rest of her column, turned to Captain Hardy stating " See how that noble fellow Collingwood carries his ship into action?". HMS Rosario (10), Booty Harvey,and HMS Griffon (16), George Trollope, destroyed 5 French brigs off Dieppe. After such a victory it may appear unnecessary to enter into encomiums on the particular parts taken by the several Commanders; the conclusion says more on the subject than I have language to express; the spirit which animated all was the same; when all exerted themselves zealously in their country's service, all deserve that their high merits should stand recorded; and never was high merit more conspicuous than in the battle I have described. Both are the most capable and powerful surface warships ever built for the Royal Navy and will be the nation’s flagships for the next 50 years.

Thames was a 46 gun Fifth-rate launched in 1823. She was converted to a prison hulk in 1841, and sank at her moorings in 1863. Boats of HMS Barfleur (98), Cptn. James Dacres, Vice Ad. Sir Wm. Waldegrave,HMS Egmont (74), Cptn. John Sutton, HMS Bombay Castle (74) with two other74s, brought out the captured British frigate Nemesis (28),French ship-corvette Sardine (18)and brig-corvette Postillon from the neutral port of Tunis. Convict hulks moored off Portsmouth, perhaps painted by a prisoner | Illustrated London News | 2 March 1940 Another instance of so-called ‘insubordination’ was reported by the Leeds Patriot, as prisoners found ingenious ways to smuggle money aboard the hulks. The newspaper fears that the money would be used ‘to carry into effect some unlawful object,’ whilst including a letter from one these ‘adroit rogues:’