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British Pacific Squadron
The Pacific Squadron was a squadron of the British Royal Navy. It was formed in 1813 during the War of 1812. It was subordinate to the South America Station until 1837, when the British naval presence was reorganised into the Pacific Station and the South East Coast of America Station. Commodores of the Pacific Squadron The following were commodores of the Pacific Squadron: * Captain James Hillyar 1813–14 * Captain Thomas Staines 1814–15 * Captain John Fyffe 1815–16 * Captain William Bowles 1817–18 * Captain William Henry Shirreff 1818–21 * Commodore Thomas Masterman Hardy 1821–22 * Captain Lord Spencer February 1822 * Captain Henry Prescott July 1822 * Captain Thomas Brown October 1823 * Captain Thomas James Maling May 1824 * Captain Sir John Sinclair March 1827 * Captain Jeremiah Coghlan August 1828 * Captain Arthur Bingham November 1829 * Captain William Waldegrave July 1830 * Captain Lord James Townshend March 1832 * Captain Francis Mason August 1834 * Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Harbour (British Columbia)
Victoria Harbour is a harbour, seaport, and seaplane airport in the Canadian city of Victoria, British Columbia. It serves as a cruise ship and ferry destination for tourists and visitors to the city and Vancouver Island. It is both a port of entry and an airport of entry for general aviation. Historically it was a shipbuilding and commercial fishing centre. While the Inner Harbour is fully within the City of Victoria, separating the city's downtown on its east side from the Victoria West neighbourhood, the Upper Harbour serves as the boundary between the City of Victoria and the district municipality of Esquimalt. The inner reaches are also bordered by the district of Saanich and the town of View Royal. Victoria is a federal "public harbour" as defined by Transport Canada. Several port facilities in the harbour are overseen and developed by the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority, however the harbour master's position is with Transport Canada. History Before European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bowles (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Bowles, KCB (25 May 1780 – 2 July 1869) was a senior Royal Navy officer and Conservative Party politician. After serving as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary Wars, he became commanding officer of the sloop HMS ''Zebra'' and took part in the bombardment of Copenhagen in September 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars. As commanding officer of the fifth-rate HMS ''Medusa'', he took part in operations off the north coast of Spain and led a naval brigade in a raid on Santoña. Bowles went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South America Station before becoming Third Naval Lord in the Second Peel ministry as well as Member of Parliament (MP) for Launceston in Cornwall. He published a number of papers arguing for innovations in naval warfare and naval administration before becoming Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Early career Born the son of William Bowles and Dinah Bowles (daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland), Bowles joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ball Sulivan
Rear Admiral Thomas Ball Sulivan CB (5 January 1781 – 17 November 1857) was a Royal Navy officer who became Senior Officer, South East Coast of America Station. Biography Sulivan was born in Cawsand, Cornwall on 5 January 1780. By 1786, he was recorded on board '' HMS Triumph'' in Portsmouth, then under the command of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood. He served on several different naval ships until 1793, when he was sent to Mediterranean to take part in French Revolutionary Wars, including being part of the crew of ''HMS Southampton'' that captured '' Utile'' in 1796, and was promoted to lieutenant the following year. Sulivan took part in the expedition to Ostend to destroy the Bruges Canal in May 1798 and was present at the bombardment of the Port of Granville in September 1803. In 1807, he took part in the capture of Curaçao, and was promoted to commander for his efforts. in 1813, after a few commands, his ship '' HMS Woolwich'' was wrecked in a hurricane, although the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Mason (Royal Navy Officer)
Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Mason KCB (10 February 1779 – 27 May 1853) was a senior Royal Navy officer who temporarily commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from October 1841 to April 1842. Naval career Mason joined the Royal Navy on 23 May 1793. He took part in the action of 28 May 1794, the action of 29 May 1794 and the Glorious First of June. He was given command of the sloop in December 1803. Promoted to post-captain he commanded, successively, the post ship , in which he took part in the Walcheren Campaign in 1809, the fifth-rate , and the fifth-rate , in which he took part in the siege of San Sebastián in 1813. He went on to command, successively, the fifth-rate and the fifth-rate . He temporarily commanded the South America Station from July 1834 to September 1834 and temporarily commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from October 1841 to April 1842. He retired as a Vice-admiral of the White. In 1805, he married the Hon. Selina Hood, daughter of Viscount Hood Visc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord James Townshend
Captain Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend KCH (11 September 1785 – 28 June 1842), was a British naval commander and Tory politician. Townshend was the younger son of George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet. He was the nephew of Charles Townshend and the half-brother of George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, Lord John Townshend and Lord Charles Townshend.Burke, John''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Volume II, p. 550.''London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1832. On 21 September 1822, he was appointed major-commandant of the Norfolk Yeomanry Rangers, in place of his brother Lord Charles. Townshend was a captain in the Royal Navy. He was also appointed a captain in the Norfolk Rangers of Yeomanry Cavalry on 18 April 1831. In 1818 he was returned to parliament as one of two representative for Helston, a constitue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave
Vice-Admiral William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave, CB (27 October 1788 – 24 October 1859) was a British naval commander and politician. Waldegrave was the son of George Waldegrave, 4th Earl Waldegrave and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave. His parents were first cousins. He was educated at Eton. In 1802, he became a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, rising to the ranks of Lieutenant in 1806 and Commander in 1809. He fought during the War of 1812, commanding frigate HMS ''Macedonian'' (which was later captured by the United States). On his return to England, he married Elizabeth Whitbread, the daughter of Samuel Whitbread and took over from his father-in-law's post as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford in 1815. Leaving that post in 1818, Waldegrave then commanded HMS ''Seringapatam'' from 1829 to 1832 and HMS ''Revenge'' from 1839 to 1842 and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1840. He retired from the navy in 1846 as a Rear-Admira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Bingham
Arthur Batt Bingham (1784–1830) was an officer in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of post captain. He is remembered chiefly for his command of HMS ''Little Belt'', when the Little Belt affair occurred, just prior to the War of 1812. Family and early life Bingham was born in 1784, the second son of the Ven. William Bingham, D.D. (1743–1819), vicar of Great Gaddesden (1777) and rector of Hemel Hempstead (1778) – later archdeacon of London (1789–1813) and chaplain to George III (1792); and his wife Agnata (aka Agnes), daughter of Liebert Dörrien, a merchant of Fenchurch Street, London and of West Ham, Essex.Burke's DictionaryBurke, Sir Bernard: ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry'' (in 2 volumes), Vol I, London: Harrison & Sons, 59 Pall Mall, 1891, p. 9Barker, G. F. Russell, comp. ''The Record of Old Westminsters'', London: Chiswick Press, 1928, p. 90National Archives: Will of Libert Dorrien, Merchant of Fenchurch Street, City of London 3 Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Coghlan
Jeremiah Coghlan CB (c. 1776 – 4 March 1844) was a British naval officer.Not to be confused with merchant and shipowneJeremiah Coghlan 1756-88 He was famous for his almost legendary feats of daring during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Despite his relatively humble background, he managed to rise from ship's boy to the rank of captain at the age of 34. This he achieved through notable acts of extraordinary courage and a succession of sea-fights which made him a celebrated hero, almost without equal, and he would later dine with both Nelson and Napoleon. Coghlan's career was initiated by his patron and close friend Sir Edward Pellew, after Pellew witnessed his heroic efforts during the rescue of the survivors of the East Indiaman ''Dutton''. Coghlan's exploits have been described as similar to plots for a collection of Hornblower novels Coghlan has also been compared to Hornblower because they were both protégés of Sir Edward Pellew aboard HMS ''Inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Gordon Sinclair, 8th Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms or Miss. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas James Maling
Thomas James Maling (15 July 1778 – 22 January 1849) was a Royal Navy officer, a captain during Napoleonic Wars and later promoted to Rear-Admiral. Biography He was the son of Christopher Thompson Maling, DL, of Worcestershire, and scion of the Maling pottery family, and his second wife, Martha Sophia Sheels. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1791, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1797, Commander in 1798, Captain in 1800, and Rear-Admiral in 1830. He commanded (1800–1801), (1801–1807), (1807–1810), (1812–1814) and (1821–1822). He commanded ''Mulgrave'' during the action of 5 November 1813. He married Harriet Darwin, daughter of the poet and physician Erasmus Darwin and his second wife, Elizabeth Colyear, illegitimate daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore. Harriet died in 1825 in Valparaiso, Chile, without issue. In 1828 he was married again, to Jemima Bromley, daughter of Henry Bromley; they had four children, including a son of the same name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brown (Royal Navy Officer)
Thomas Brown may refer to: Arts and literature *Thomas Brown (satirist) (1662–1704), English satirist *Thomas Brown (philosopher) (1778–1820), Scottish poet and philosopher *''Thomas Brown'', pen name of Thomas Moore (1779–1852) *Thomas Brown (architect) (1781–1850), Scottish architect *Thomas Brown (prison architect) (1806–1872), Scottish architect *Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar, and divine *T. Allston Brown (Thomas Allston Brown, 1836–1918), American theater critic and historian *Thomas Wilson Brown (born 1972), American actor Business and industry *Thomas Brown (businessman) (1738–1797), American husbandman, businessman, and land speculator *Thomas Brown (engineer) (1772–1850), English surveyor, engineer, businessman, and landowner * Thomas Forster Brown (1835–1907), English civil and mining engineer Politics and law Australia *Thomas Brown (settler) (1803–1863), Australian pastoralist and politician *Thomas Brown (New South Wales col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Prescott
Admiral Sir Henry Prescott (4 May 1783 – 18 November 1874) was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was later the Governor of the Newfoundland Colony. Biography Family background Prescott was born at Kew Green, Surrey, the son of Admiral Isaac Prescott and a daughter of the Reverend Richard Walter, who served as chaplain aboard the during Commodore George Anson's expedition to the Pacific, and was the author of ''A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1740–44'' (1748). Prescott's only brother, an infantry officer in the East India Company's service, was drowned during a voyage home in 1806. Junior officer Prescott entered the Navy on 16 February 1796 as first-class volunteer on board the 98-gun ship of the line , serving under Captains the Honourable George Cranfield Berkeley and John Irwin, stationed in the Channel. He was rated as a midshipman in April 1797, and in early 1798 followed Admiral Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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