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Edward Hunt (Surveyor Of The Navy)
Sir Edward Hunt (c.1730–1787) was a British shipbuilder and designer who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy. Life He was born around 1730. He is first recorded in the service of the Royal Navy as a Master Boat Builder in 1757 at Portsmouth Dockyard. This position was usually preceded by an apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter on a Royal Navy ship, plus a period as ship's carpenter both at sea and on shore. In 1762 he was appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard then was promoted first to Master Caulker. In 1765 he moved to Woolwich Dockyard as Assistant Master Shipwright. In 1767 he was given full charge (as Master Shipwright) at Sheerness Dockyard and from that time the Royal Navy list his works. In 1772 he moved to the far larger dock at Portsmouth. In April 1778 he was appointed Surveyor of the Navy to assist Sir John Williams. From December 1784 he was the senior Surveyor and was working with John Henslow. He ceased work in December 1786 and died wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surveyor Of The Navy
The Surveyor of the Navy also known as Department of the Surveyor of the Navy and originally known as Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy was a former principal commissioner and member of both the Navy Board from the inauguration of that body in 1546 until its abolition in 1832 and then a member Board of Admiralty from 1848-1859. In 1860 the office was renamed ''Controller of The Navy'' until 1869 when the office was merged with that of the Third Naval Lord's the post holder held overall responsibility for the design of British warships. History The office was established in 1546 under Henry VIII of England when the post holder was styled as ''Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy'' until 1611. Although until 1745 the actual design work for warships built at each Royal Dockyard was primarily the responsibility of the individual Master Shipwright at that Royal Dockyard. For vessels built by commercial contract (limited to wartime periods, when the Royal Dockyards could not cope with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sails fore and aft, or as a gaff-rig with triangular foresail(s) and a gaff rigged mainsail. Sailboats can be classified according to type of rig, and so a sailboat may be a sloop, catboat, cutter, ketch, yawl, or schooner. A sloop usually has only one headsail, although an exception is the Friendship sloop, which is usually gaff-rigged with a bowsprit and multiple headsails. If the vessel has two or more headsails, the term cutter may be used, especially if the mast is stepped further towards the back of the boat. When going before the wind, a sloop may carry a square-rigged topsail which will be hung from a topsail yard and be supported from below by a crossjack. This sail often has a large hollow foot, and this foot is somet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure-class Ship
The ''Adventure''-class ship was a class of eight 44-gun sailing two-decker warships of the Royal Navy, classed as a fifth rate like a frigate, but carrying two complete decks of guns, a lower battery of 18-pounders and an upper battery of 12-pounders. This enabled the vessel to deliver a broadside of 318 pounds. The class was designed in 1782 by Edward Hunt, Surveyor of the Navy, as a successor to the ''Roebuck'' class design of Sir Thomas Slade. The design saw a slight increase in breadth over the ''Roebuck'' class, but was otherwise very similar. Like the ''Roebuck'' class, the ''Adventure'' class were not counted by the Admiralty as frigates; although sea officers sometimes casually described them and other small two-deckers as frigates, the Admiralty officially never referred to them as such. By 1750, the Admiralty strictly defined frigates as ships of 28 guns or more, carrying all their main battery (24, 26 or even 28 guns) on the upper deck, with no guns or openings on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Trusty (1782)
HMS ''Trusty'' was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Design Designed by Edward Hunt and built at Sheerness Dockyard, the ''Trusty'' extended the design of Hunt's earlier ships by 2 ft (0.6 m). Like ''Cato'', she featured the beakhead bulkhead, roundhouse with gallery, and solid bulwarks along the quarterdeck. The large roundhouse was surmounted by further solid bulwarks into which a fourth tier of gunports was cut for the carronades mounted on the poopdeck. The mizzen channels were moved up above the aftmost quarterdeck gunports. Service ''Trusty'' was launched on 9 October 1782. ''Trusty'' was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands. ''Trusty'' was refitted and used as a troopship from July 1799. Because she served in the Navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione-class Frigate (Royal Navy)
The ''Hermione''-class frigate was a 32-gun 5th-rate frigate class of 6 ships designed by Edward Hunt based on his Active-class frigate, approved on 25 March 1780. The initial design was modified after the first two ships to raise the waist, and all were officially referred to as the ''Andromeda Class''. Ships in class * HMS ''Hermione'' 1782 – seized by mutineers on 22 September 1797, given to the Spanish garrison at La Guaira, cut out of the harbour and retaken on 25 October 1799, renamed ''Retaliation'' shortly after, renamed Retribution in 1800, presented to Trinity House in 1803 * HMS ''Druid'' 1783 – fitted as troopship from 1798 to 1805, broken up 1813 * HMS ''Andromeda'' 1784 – broken up 1811 * HMS ''Penelope'' 1783 – broken up 1797 * HMS ''Aquilon'' 1786 – broken up 1816 * HMS ''Blanche'' 1786 – wrecked in the entrance to the Texel References *''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates'' (2014 Age of Sail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Active (1780)
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Active'' or HMS ''Actif'', with a thirteenth currently under construction: * was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and captured in 1778 by two French frigates off San Domingo. * was a 14-gun brig-sloop launched in 1776 and captured in 1780 by the American privateer ''General Pickering'' off New York. * was a 12-gun cutter that entered service in 1779 and surrendered that same year to the French cutter when ''Active'' encountered and was unable to escape the combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the English Channel. The French took her into service as ''Actif'' and later ''Activ No.1'' (1782). She was paid off at Brest in December 1782 and broken up there early the next year. * was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1780 and wrecked in 1796 on Anticosti Island at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River. * was a 14-gun brig-sloop listed in 1782. * was a 16-gun privateer that captured from the French on 16 March 1794; she founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perseverance-class Frigate
The ''Perseverance''-class frigate was a 36-gun, later 42-gun, 18-pounder fifth-rate frigate class of twelve ships of the Royal Navy, constructed in two batches. Designed by Surveyor of the Navy Sir Edward Hunt the first iteration, consisting of four ships, was constructed as a rival to the similar ''Flora''-class frigate. Strongly built ships, the ''Perseverance'' class provided favourable gunnery characteristics and was highly manoeuvrable, but bought these traits with a loss of speed. The name ship of the class, ''Perseverance'', was ordered in 1779 and participated in the American Revolutionary War, but her three sister ships were constructed too late to take part. The class continued in service after the war, but soon became outdated. In 1801 the new First Lord of the Admiralty Admiral Lord St Vincent brought back the ''Perseverance'' class in an attempt to save money and resources in ship construction by producing older and less elaborate designs than those his pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganges-class Ship Of The Line
The ''Ganges''-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt in 1779. Ships * :Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe :Ordered: 14 July 1779 :Launched: 30 March 1782 :Fate: Broken up, 1816 * :Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe :Ordered: 12 July 1779 :Launched: 16 June 1783 :Fate: Broken up, 1813 * :Builder: Barnard, Deptford :Ordered: 1 January 1782 :Launched: 30 October 1784 :Fate: Sold out of the service, 1897 * :Builder: Woolwich Dockyard :Ordered: 25 June 1801 :Launched: 15 March 1808 :Fate: Broken up, 1861 * :Builder: Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia (1702–1774) was a Parsi from Surat province of Gujarat in India and was a member of the Wadia family of shipwrights and naval architects, who founded Wadia Group in 1736. Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the British E ..., Duncan Docks, Bombay :Ordered: 9 July 1801 :Launched: 19 June 1810 :Fate: Sold out of the service, 1861 * :Builder: Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva-class Frigate
The ''Minerva''-class sailing frigates were a series of four ships built to a 1778 design by Sir Edward Hunt, which served in the Royal Navy during the latter decades of the eighteenth century. During the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, the Royal Navy – while well supplied with ships from earlier programs, but faced with coastal operations and trade protection tasks along the American littoral – ordered numerous forty-four gun, two-decked ships and thirty-two gun 12-pounder armed frigates. Anticipating the entry of European powers into the war, and with renewed resistance provided by the large, nine hundred ton, thirty-two gun 12-pounder armed frigates of the French Navy, the RN looked to a newer larger design of frigate to meet this challenge. From November 1778 larger frigates with a heavier 18-pounder primary armament were ordered. They were the first Royal Navy frigates designed to be armed with the eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Active-class Frigate
The ''Active''-class frigate was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate class of eight ships designed by Edward Hunt to replace the design, which they resembled with a distinct midsection. Due to poor performance of the ''Active'' class, orders continued for the ''Amazon'' class. Description The ''Active'' class was designed with a gundeck, measuring at the keel, at the beam, and a draught of . They displaced tons burthen. The class was designed with an armament of 26 cannon on the gundeck, four guns on the quarterdeck with four carronades, and two 6 pdr guns and two 24 pdr carronades on the forecastle. Ships in class * - wrecked attempting to exit Castle Harbour, Bermuda, via Castle Roads Castle Roads is the primary channel by which vessels enter Castle Harbour, Bermuda, from the Atlantic Ocean. Although little used, today, except by pleasure boats, Castle Harbour was once an important anchorage, and an access route used by ships ... * – wrecked on Anticosti Island in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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