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John Toup Nicolas
Rear Admiral John Toup Nicolas Royal Navy, RN Order of the Bath, CB Royal Guelphic Order, KH (1788–1851) was a Royal Navy officer. Nicolas was born in East Looe, Cornwall. He entered the Royal Navy in 1797 and later served on various ships, including HMS ''Edgar'', HMS ''Malta'', and HMS ''Queen''. As a lieutenant, he participated in the 3rd Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805. Nicolas commanded several successful attacks while in charge of HMS ''Pilot'', earning praise from the British press. He was promoted to Captain in 1815 and later commanded HMS ''Egeria'', HMS ''Hercules'', HMS ''Belleisle'', and HMS ''Vindictive''. Nicolas was appointed Superintendent of the Victualling Yard at Plymouth in 1847 and retired as Rear Admiral in 1850. He died in Plymouth and is buried in St Martin's Church there. Life He was the eldest son of Lieutenant (Commander) John Harris Nicolas Royal Navy, R.N. (1758–1844) and his wife, Margaret Blake. He was born on 22 February 1788 at East Loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early Middle Ages, medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the English Navy of the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the early 18th century until the World War II, Second World War, it was the world's most powerful navy. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Cape Finisterre (1805)
In the Battle of Cape Finisterre (22 July 1805) off Galicia, Spain, the British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder fought an indecisive naval battle against the combined Franco-Spanish fleet which was returning from the West Indies. In the ensuing battle the British captured two Spanish ships of the line, but failed to prevent the joining of French Admiral Pierre de Villeneuve's fleet to the squadron of Ferrol and to strike the shattering blow that would have freed Great Britain from the dangerBrytant p. 154 of an invasion. Calder was later court-martialled and severely reprimanded for his failure and for avoiding the renewal of the engagement on 23 and 24 July. At the same time, in the aftermath Villeneuve elected not to continue on to Brest, where his fleet could have joined with other French ships to clear the English Channel for an invasion of Great Britain. Strategic background The fragile Peace of Amiens of 1802 had come to an end when Napoleon formally annexed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calabria
Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. It has 1,832,147 residents as of 2025 across a total area of . Catanzaro is the region's capital. Calabria is the birthplace of the name of Italy, given to it by the Ancient Greeks who settled in this land starting from the 8th century BC. They established the first cities, mainly on the coast, as Greek colonisation, Greek colonies. During this period Calabria was the heart of Magna Graecia, home of key figures in history such as Pythagoras, Herodotus and Milo of Croton, Milo. In Roman times, it was part of the ''Regio III Lucania et Bruttii'', a region of Roman Italy, Augustan Italy. After the Gothic War (535–554), Gothic War, it became and remained for five centuries a Byzantine empire, Byzantine dominion, fully recove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Weazle
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Weazel'' or HMS ''Weazle'', archaic spellings of weasel, while another was planned: * was a 10-gun sloop launched in 1704 and sold in 1712. * was an 8-gun sloop launched in 1721 and sold in 1732. * was a 16-gun sloop purchased on the stocks and launched in 1745. The French frigate captured her in 1779 in the West Indies. The French took her to the French Antilles where they removed her guns for Admiral d'Estaing's squadron. They then sold her at Guadeloupe in 1781. * was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1783 and wrecked while attempting to leave Barnstaple Bay on 12 February 1799. She vainly fired signals of distress before she broke up; her purser was the only survivor of her crew of 106 men and boys. * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1799 and purchased that year. She was wrecked on 1 March 1804 off Cabritta Point near Gibraltar with the loss of one man of her crew of 70. * was an 18-gun launched in 1805 and so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville George Waldegrave
Granville may refer to: People and fictional characters *Granville (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name *Earl Granville, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain and of the UK * Baron Granville, a title in the Peerage of England Places Australia * Granville, New South Wales ** Municipality of Granville ** Electoral district of Granville * Granville, Queensland, a suburb of Maryborough ** Shire of Granville, Queensland * County of Granville, South Australia * Granville Harbour, Tasmania Canada * Granville, Edmonton, Alberta * Granville, British Columbia, former name of Vancouver ** Granville Island, a peninsula in Vancouver ** Granville Street, a major road in Vancouver ** Vancouver Granville (electoral district) United States * Granville, Illinois * Granville, Indiana, a former town in Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County * Granville, Delaware County, Indiana * Granville, Iowa * Granville, Massachusetts ** Granville State Forest * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Thames
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Thames'', after the River Thames: * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1758 and broken up in 1803. She was in French hands between 1793 and 1796, when she was known as ''Tamise''. * was another 32-gun fifth rate, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1816. * was a cutter tender built in 1805. She became a dockyard craft in 1866 and was renamed ''YC 2''. She was sold in 1872. * was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1823. She was converted to a prison ship in 1841, and sank at her moorings in 1863. * was a second-class cruiser launched in 1885. She was converted to a depot ship in 1903, and was sold in 1920 to become a training ship at the Cape, being renamed ''General Botha''. Her name reverted to ''Thames'' when she became an accommodation ship in 1942; she was finally scuttled in 1947. * was a launched in 1932 and sunk by a mine in 1940. * , a tugboat in service during World War II * HMS ''Thames'' has since 1949 been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Lucido
San Lucido ( Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Geography The municipality borders with Falconara Albanese, Marano Marchesato, Marano Principato, Paola, Rende and San Fili. It counts the hamlets (''frazioni A ''frazione'' (: ''frazioni'') is a type of subdivision of a ''comune'' ('municipality') in Italy, often a small village or hamlet outside the main town. Most ''frazioni'' were created during the Fascist era (1922–1943) as a way to consolidat ...'') of Acqua Bianca, Acqualeone, Cerasuolo, Deuda, Granoriso, Miccisi, Pollella, Puppa, San Giovanni, Santa Lucia and Varco. Economy San Lucido is one of the few towns in the area where the town itself is close to the sea. Most of the other towns in the area have the old town or "centro storico" 2–5 km back from the sea and a new "marina" area with new build apartments and shops closer to the sea. Whilst the tourism in the area has suffered since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pilot (1807)
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Pilot'', or HMS ''Pilote'': * was a 14-gun brig-sloop, formerly the French ''Mutin''-class cutter ''Pilote''. ''Pilote'' was launched November 1778 at Dunkirk; the Admiralty sold her in May 1799. * was an 18-gun launched in 1807 and sold in 1828. She became a whaler A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. Terminology The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Jap ..., making five whale fishing voyages between 1830 and 1842; she was last listed in 1844. * was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1838 and sold in 1862. * was an 8-gun training brig launched in 1879 and sold in 1907. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pilot, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Lapwing (1785)
HMS ''Lapwing'' was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Career ''Lapwing'' was first commissioned in October 1790 under the command of Captain Paget Bayly (or Bayley), who had commanded off the coast of Africa and in the West Indies. Captain Henry Curzon recommissioned her in April 1791 and sailed for the Mediterranean on 12 July. She returned to Britain in 1793 and was paid off in February 1794. Between May and November ''Lapwing'' underwent fitting at Woolwich. While this was underway, Captain Robert Barton commissioned her for cruising. He then sailed her to the Leeward Islands in October 1795. ''Lapwing'' vs. ''Décius'' and ''Vaillante'' On 25 November 1796, Captain R. Barton and ''Lapwing'' were at St Kitts when an express boat brought the news that a French force consisting of two warships, several smaller ships, and 400 troops, were threatening Anguilla. Contrary winds prevented ''Lapwing'' from arriving in time to prevent the French from burning the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Martin (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Martin, (1764 – 28 July 1847) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During his long naval career he took part in several significant battles, for which he was awarded a number of honours and promotions; he commanded ships at Cape St Vincent and Cape Finisterre. George Martin was born into an important naval dynasty, related to the Rowley family, and the grandson of Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Rowley on his mother's side, and great-nephew of Admiral Sir William Martin on his father's side. He spent his early career serving on ships commanded by his uncle, Captain, later Vice-Admiral, Joshua Rowley. He saw action in the West Indies, and had risen to command his own ship by the end of the war with America. The years of peace temporarily left him unemployed, but the outbreak of war with revolutionary France in 1793 provided the opportunity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Canopus (1798)
HMS ''Canopus'' was an 84-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the ''Franklin'', but was captured after less than a year in service by the British fleet under Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Having served the French for less than six months from her completion in March 1798 to her capture in August 1798, she eventually served the British for 89 years. Her career began as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Armand Blanquet du Chayla, second in command at the Battle of the Nile, where she distinguished herself with her fierce resistance before being forced to surrender with over half her crew dead or wounded, and most of her guns disabled. Taken into British service she was refitted and served as the flagship of several admirals. Commanded by Francis Austen ''Canopus'' was Rear-Admiral Thomas Louis's flagship in the Mediterranean under Nelson, and narrowly missed the fighting at Traf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Queen (1769)
HMS ''Queen'' was a three-deck 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 September 1769 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship built to her draught. Her armament was increased to 98 guns in the 1780s.Naval-Art.com, HMS ''Queen''. Service ''Queen'' fought at the First Battle of Ushant under Keppel in 1778, and the Second Battle of Ushant under Kempenfelt in 1781. In 1794 she fought in the Glorious First of June under Howe, where she served as Rear-Admiral Alan Gardner's flagship. During the battle ''Queen'' sustained significant damage, and her commanding officer, Captain John Hutt, was amongst those killed. On 16 November 1798, the squadron she was in captured three US merchantmen, ''Norfolk'', ''Eliza'', and ''Friendship'', under convoy of ; the squadron impressed five of ''Baltimore''s crew. At the time she was under command of Capt. Dobson. She was still Captained by Dobson when she contacted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
