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HMS Rattlesnake (1791)
Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Rattlesnake'', including: * , a 14-gun cutter launched 1777, later re-classified as a sloop, and lost in 1781. * HMS ''Rattlesnake'' (1783), ex-''Rattlesnake'' U.S. privateer, ex-''Cormorant'' of 1781. A 12-gun brig. The Algerine Navy and the Dey of Algiers detained her for five days in November 1784. Sold 1786. * , a 16-gun sloop in service from 1791 until sold in 1814. * HMS ''Rattlesnake'' (1814), was a brig of 14 guns that the United States Navy purchased in 1813. The Royal Navy captured her in 1814 and the last extant records report that the Navy had purchased her. Her subsequent fate is currently unknown. * , a 28-gun frigate launched in 1822. * , a 21-gun launched in 1861 and broken up in 1882. * , a torpedo gunboat In the late 19th century, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats. By the end of the 1890s torpedo gunboats were superseded ... [...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] |
HMS Cormorant (1781)
HMS ''Cormorant'' was an 18-gun ship sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally the 20-gun Massachusetts privateer ''Rattlesnake'', which had probably been launched in 1780 at Plymouth, Massachusetts and commissioned in 1781. captured ''Rattlesnake'' on 17 June 1781 shortly after she set out on her first cruise. British naval authorities in New York City subsequently purchased her and commissioned the ship into the Royal Navy as HMS ''Rattlesnake'', and in November 1781 she carried to England the first news of Britain's defeat at the siege of Yorktown. There, she was renamed ''Cormorant'', though the Royal Navy renamed her ''Rattlesnake'' in 1783. She was paid off and sold in 1786. Privateer ''Rattlesnake'' ''Rattlesnake'' was probably drawn by John Peck of Boston, Massachusetts, and probably built at Plymouth in 1780. She was very lightly built and was reputedly very fast. ''Rattlesnake'' had the appearance of a miniature frigate, with detached quarterdeck and forecastl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Rattlesnake (1813)
USS ''Rattlesnake'' was the brig ''Rambler'' built in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1812 that the United States Navy purchased in July 1813. ''Rattlesnake'' captured numerous British merchant vessels before captured her in mid-1814. The Royal Navy apparently purchased her at Nova Scotia, but there is no record of her subsequent career. Career Captain Benjamin Rich sold his brig ''Rambler'' to Amos Binney, the agent for the United States Navy on 3 July 1813 for $18,000, exclusive of armament. ''Rattlesnake'' sailed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire 10 January 1814, under the command of Master Commandant John O. Creighton, and sailed with cruising the Caribbean. The two ships took three prizes prior to their separation in response to the appearance of a heavily gunned British ship on 25 February. ''Rattlesnake'', fleeing back to friendlier waters, put into Wilmington, North Carolina on 9 March. Together, ''Rattlesnake'' and ''Enterprise'' had taken five prizes: *Brig ''Rambler'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpedo Gunboat
In the late 19th century, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats. By the end of the 1890s torpedo gunboats were superseded by their more successful contemporaries, the torpedo boat destroyers. History A number of torpedo gunboats, the prototype ''Rattlesnake'' of 1886 followed by the ''Grasshopper'' class (of 3 vessels), the ''Sharpshooter'' class (13 vessels), the ''Alarm'' class (11 vessels) and the ''Dryad'' class (5 vessels), were built for the Royal Navy during the 1880s and the 1890s; similar vessels were also constructed or otherwise acquired by a number of European nations and Japan. Essentially very small cruisers, torpedo gunboats were typically fitted with locomotive boilers and were equipped with torpedo tubes and an adequate gun armament, intended for hunting down smaller enemy torpedo boats. In practice they failed in their primary objective, as they were not fast enough to k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
