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HMS Clio (1807)
HMS ''Clio'' was of the Royal Navy, launched at James Betts' shipyard in Mistleythorn in Essex on 10 January 1807. Her establishment was 71 officers and men, 24 boys and 20 marines. She served in the Baltic during the Napoleonic Wars, accomplished the re-establishment of British rule on the Falkland Islands in 1833, and participated in the First Opium War. She was broken up in 1845. Napoleonic Wars In February 1807 Commander Thomas Folliott Baugh commissioned her and sailed her to the Leith Station on the North Sea. Here he succeeded in taking several prizes, but not until 1808. The first appears to have been the ''Helyra'', Hook, master, from Bergen, which ''Clio'' sent into Leith in July. Then on 21 September 1808, while she was cruising off Fleckoro, ''Clio'' captured a small Danish privateer armed with six guns and carrying a crew of eleven men. The captured vessel arrived at Leith on 12 October. On 7 December she captured the ''Vrouw Heltya''. On 30 March 1808, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clio
In Greek mythology, Clio ( , ; el, Κλειώ), also spelled Kleio, is the muse of history, or in a few mythological accounts, the muse of lyre playing. Etymology Clio's name is etymologically derived from the Greek root κλέω/κλείω (meaning "to recount", "to make famous" or "to celebrate"). The name's traditional Latinisation is Clio, Lewis and Short, ''A Latin Dictionary: Founded on Andrews' Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary: Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten by Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL.D''. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879, ''s.v.'' but some modern systems such as the American Library Association-Library of Congress system use ''K'' to represent the original Greek ''kappa'', and ''ei'' to represent the diphthong ''ει'' ( epsilon iota), thus ''Kleio''. Depiction Clio, sometimes referred to as "the Proclaimer", is often represented with an open parchment scroll, a book, or a set of tablets. Mythology Like all the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen Jørgensen
Jørgen Jørgensen (name of birth: Jürgensen, and changed to Jorgenson from 1817)Wilde, W H, ''Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' 2nd ed. (29 March 1780 – 20 January 1841) was a Danish adventurer during the Age of Revolution. During the action of 2 March 1808, his ship was captured by the British. In 1809 he sailed to Iceland, declared the country independent from Denmark–Norway and pronounced himself its ruler. He intended to found a new republic, following the examples of the United States and the French First Republic. He was also a prolific writer of letters, papers, pamphlets and newspaper articles covering a wide variety of subjects, and for a period was an associate of the famous botanists Joseph Banks and William Jackson Hooker. He left over a hundred written autographs and drawings, most of which are collected in the British Library. Marcus Clarke referred to Jørgensen as "a singularly accomplished fortune wooerone of the most interesting human comets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Oberon (1805)
HMS ''Oberon'' was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the ''Seagull'' class built at Kingston upon Hull and launched in 1805. She was constructed at the James Shepheard Shipyard, Sutton. Service She was commissioned in September 1805 under her first commander, John Bushby. However from January 1806 she was under Commander George Manners Sutton off the Downs, in the North Sea. On 6 June 1806 she was in company with when they captured the ''Yonge Heinrick'' H.H. Berg, master. On 13 November 1807 she gave chase to the French privateer lugger ''Ratifia'', capturing her after four hours, some 30 miles east of Lowestoft. The ''Ratifia'' commanded by Lieutenant Gilbert Laforeste, had been carrying 14 guns, but at the time had only two mounted for action, the rest being in the hold. She had sailed on 9 November from Delfzijl, on the Ems but had not made any captures before being taken by the ''Oberon''. Captain Sutton sailed her to the Yarmouth Roads and landed 38 prisoners. On 5 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rødby
Rødby is a town, with a population of 1,983 (1 January 2022),BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from located on the island of in . It was the seat of the former Rødby Municipality ( Danish, '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bruizer (1804)
Several ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Bruiser'' or HMS ''Bruizer''. * was an launched in 1797 and sold in 1802. * was an launched in 1804. She was sold in 1815. * was the former ''Robert Stephenson'', an iron steam-powered ship purchased on the stocks and launched in 1854. She was renamed ''Bruiser'' in June 1855, employed as a floating flour mill during the Crimean War and sold in 1857. * was a launched in 1867 and broken up at Devonport in 1886. * was an launched in 1895 and sold in 1914 * was a Landing Ship, Tank launched in 1942 and sold in 1946. Converted to a passenger ship in 1951 and scrapped in 1968. * was a Tank landing ship launched in 1945 as . She was renamed HMS ''Bruiser'' in 1947 and sold in 1954. *HMS ''Bruiser'' was intended as a Batch 2 Type 22 frigate, but was renamed as before being laid down. Battle honours Ships named ''Bruiser'' have earned the following battle honours: * Sicily, 1943 *Salerno, 1944 * Anzio, 1944 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Ethalion (1802)
HMS ''Ethalion'' was a Royal Navy 36-gun frigate, launched in 1802 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was eventually broken up in 1877. Service ''Ethalion'' entered service in 1803 under Captain Charles Stuart, operating in the North Sea. In May 1804 she captured the 16-gun Dutch brig ''Union'' off Bergen. In 1807, command passed to William Charles Fahie, who took ''Ethalion'' to the West Indies. In December 1807 ''Ethalion'' was part of the squadron under Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane that captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless. On 26 October 1808 ''Ethalion'' captured ''Washington''. ''Ethalion'' also participated in the invasion of Martinique in 1809 under Captain Thomas John Cochrane. In April 1809, a strong French squadron arrived at the Îles des Saintes, south of Guadeloupe. There they were blockaded until 14 April, when a British force under Major-General Frederick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low stack (geology), sea stack. A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy grasses. They are often used as resting places by animals such as Pinniped, seals and seabird, birds. Etymology The term ''skerry'' is derived from the Old Norse ', which means a rock in the sea (which in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *''sker''-, "cut", in the sense of a rock cut off from the land). The Old Norse term ' was brought into the English language via the Scots language word spelled or . It is a cognate of the Scandinavian languages' words for ''skerry'' – Icelandic language, Icelandic, fo, sker, da, skær, sv, skär, no, skjær / skjer, found also in german: Schäre, fi, kari, et, skäär, lv, šēra, lt, Šcheras and russian: шхеры (). In Scottish Gaelic, it appears as ', e.g. Sula Sgeir, in Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HDMS Lolland (1810)
HDMS ''Lolland'' (or ''Laaland'') was launched in March 1810. She served in at least four major engagements during the Gunboat War before she was transferred to the Norwegian navy after the Treaty of Kiel brought about the separation of Norway from Denmark in 1814. ''Lolland'' continued to serve with the Norwegian Navy until sold in 1847. Dano-Norwegian navy For three months from 9 June 1810, ''Lolland'' served as a training ship for naval cadets at Copenhagen naval base. At the time she was under the command of Senior Lieutenant (later Captain) Holger Johan Bahnsen. Also on board was Senior Lieutenant Georg Joachim Grodtschilling, a mathematics teacher at the naval academy. 1811 On 6 March 1811, ''Lolland'' sailed to her new station as part of the naval defences of southern Norway, where she was the command ship for a division of brigs. The year would be a tumultuous one for ''Lolland'' as she would engage in three actions against British warships under her new captain, Hans Pet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egersund
Egersund is a town in Eigersund municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The town is located along the southwestern coast of Norway, about south of the city of Stavanger. The town is situated along a strait which separates the mainland from the island of Eigerøya. From 1838 until 1964, the town was also an independent municipality. The town has a population (2019) of 11,433 and a population density of . Egersund has one of the best natural harbours in Norway, and it used to be the largest harbour in Norway when measured in quantity of fish brought in each year (surpassed by Ålesund in 2006). Several internationally known companies have divisions here, like Navico (earlier Robertson autopilots) and Jeppesen Norway formerly C-MAP Norway (producer of electronic sea-maps). In addition, the Aker Solutions corporation owns and runs a large installation here which specializes in the building of parts for oil platforms. Most of the industry is related to the sea and to boats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Peter Holm
Hans Peter Holm (17 June 1772 – 26 October 1812)Topsøe-Jensen, pp. 598–601. was a Danish naval officer who commanded vessels of the Dano-Norwegian Navy in several actions. He commanded several naval vessels during the Gunboat War. His most important action occurred in 1812 at the Battle of Lyngør when a British squadron, led by the British ship-of-the-line , destroyed his vessel, . Holm sustained wounds in the battle but survived, only to drown in an accident shortly afterwards. Biography Holm was born 17 June 1772 at Søholm, north of Copenhagen, to ship's master Peter Holm (1725–1786) and Christence Morslet (1744–1819). In 1807 he married Marie Heegaard (1791–1860), daughter of a plantation owner in St Croix in the Danish West Indies (DWI; now the US Virgin Islands). He died 26 October 1812 at Langesundsfjorden, Bamble, Telemark (SW of Oslo), and is buried in Langesund Church. Early career At the age of 12, Holm accompanied his father, who was a ship's master in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Pyramus (1801)
Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Pyramus,'' after the doomed lover from the writings of Ovid. * was a fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rating The rating system in the Royal N ... 36-gun frigate built in Portsmouth and hulked in 1832-33 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sold and broken up in 1879. The information that the ship had been captured by Lord Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 is incorrect. (Source Dr. Ian A. Cameron, M.D, F.C.F.P., Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, August 1987, pp. 118–120; Also, the Cambridge Digital Library / University of Cambridge website) * was a protected cruiser launched in 1897, and sold in 1920. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pyramus Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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