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HMS Windsor Castle (1858)
HMS ''Windsor Castle'' was a triple-decker, 102-gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS ''Cambridge'' in 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth. Life Early life She was laid down at Pembroke Dockyard as HMS ''Victoria'' in 1844, to the design of . She was intended to carry 110 guns, but work was suspended. She was reordered on 29 June 1848 to a modified design, and reordered again on 28 February 1857 when she was ordered to be converted from sail to mixed sail/steam propulsion whilst on the stocks and to be fitted with 120 guns. She was renamed ''Windsor Castle'' on 6 January 1855 and launched by Lady Pakington on 26 August 1858, having since been reduced to carry 116 guns, and then 102 guns. She cost a total of £117,030, £84,555 spent on her hull as a sailing vessel, her conversion had cost another £14,878. 204 feet long, and of 4971 tons displacement, she had a crew of 930, but almost immediately entere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Ensign Of The United Kingdom
The White Ensign, at one time called the St George's Ensign due to the simultaneous existence of a cross-less version of the flag, is an ensign worn on British Royal Navy ships and shore establishments. It consists of a red St George's Cross on a white field, identical to the flag of England except with the Union Flag in the upper canton. The White Ensign is also worn by yachts of members of the Royal Yacht Squadron and by ships of Trinity House escorting the reigning monarch. In addition to the United Kingdom, several other nations have variants of the White Ensign with their own national flags in the canton, with the St George's Cross sometimes being replaced by a naval badge omitting the cross altogether. Yachts of the Royal Irish Yacht Club wear a white ensign with an Irish tricolour in the first quadrant and defaced by the crowned harp from the Heraldic Badge of Ireland. The Flag of the British Antarctic Territory and the Commissioners' flag of the Northern Lig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Plymouth, Devon
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Ships Of The Line Of The Royal Navy
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Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot
Admiral Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot (5 February 1850 – 30 September 1913) was an officer of the British Royal Navy. Biography Arbuthnot was born in Liverpool, England, the son of George Clerk Arbuthnot (1803–1876) of Marisbank, Midlothian, (the third son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet), by his second wife Caroline Ramsay, daughter of James Hay of Collepriest, and Lady Mary Ramsay, the fourth daughter of George Ramsay, 6th Earl of Dalhousie. Arbuthnot entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in September 1863, aged 13, and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in December 1869. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant from the Royal Yacht on 7 September 1871. In 1875–76 he served aboard the yacht in the Arctic, earning the Arctic Medal. Arbuthnot was promoted to the rank of commander on 31 December 1883, and to captain on 30 June 1891. In 1888 he was stationed in Zanzibar where he served in the Royal Navy's Anti-Slavery Squadron. He commanded the cruisers during her opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert William Craigie
Admiral Robert William Craigie (25 July 1849 – 21 August 1911) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Admiral-Superintendent of Chatham dockyard from 1902 to 1905. Biography Craigie was born in 1849, and joined the Royal Navy in 1863. He was captain of the gunnery school HMS ''Cambridge'' off Plymouth from 1898 to 1900, in which year he was promoted to flag rank as rear-admiral on 10 August 1900. In July 1902 he was announced as the new Admiral-superintendent of Chatham dockyard Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham (at its most extensive, in the early 20th centur ..., and he took up the position on 2 September 1902, when he hoisted his flag on HMS ''Algiers'', flagship of the Dockyard reserve. He served at Chatham for three years, and retired as admiral in 1908. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Craigie, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel Squadron
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Assheton Curzon-Howe
Admiral The Honourable Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe, (10 August 1850 – 1 March 1911) was a British naval officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet from 1908 to 1910. Early life Curzon-Howe was the thirteenth and youngest child of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe, and Anne (d. 1877), who was Lord Howe's second wife (Assheton was the youngest of her three children), daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore. His paternal great-grandfather was Admiral Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. Career In 1894 Curzon-Howe flew his flag as Commodore on the corvette on the North America and West Indies Station. By January 1900 he had been promoted captain, and was appointed in command of the battleship when she was commissioned 20 February 1900 for service on the Mediterranean Station. She transferred to the China Station in January 1901, in response to the Boxer Rebellion. Curzon-Howe was appointed a Naval Aide de Camp (ADC) to Queen Victoria in July 1899, and was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMNB Devonport
His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy. The largest naval base in Western Europe, HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth, England. The base began as Royal Navy Dockyard in the late 17th century, but shipbuilding ceased at Devonport in the early 1970s, although ship maintenance work has continued. The now privatised maintenance facilities are operated by Babcock International Group, who took over the previous owner Devonport Management Limited (DML) in 2007. DML had been running the Dockyard since privatisation in 1987. From 1934 until the early 21st century the naval barracks on the site was named HMS ''Drake'' (it had previously been known as HMS ''Vivid'' after the base ship of the same name). The name HMS ''Drake'' and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Perseus (1861)
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Perseus'', after the Greek hero Perseus: * was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1776; she was the first vessel of the Royal Navy to be sheathed in copper.Chambers & Thomson (1870), Vol. 2, p.429. She was converted to a bomb vessel in 1799 and was broken up in 1805. * was a 22-gun sixth rate launched in 1812. She was used for harbour service from 1818 and was broken up in 1850. * was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1861. She was used for harbour service from 1886, was renamed HMS ''Defiance II'' in 1904 and was probably sold in 1912. * was a protected cruiser Protected cruisers, a type of naval cruiser of the late-19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them. Protected cruisers r ... launched in 1897 and sold for scrap in 1914. * was a launched in 1929 and sunk in 1941 during the Second World War. * wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Foudroyant (1798)
HMS ''Foudroyant'' was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period (the other was ). ''Foudroyant'' was built in the dockyard at Plymouth Dock (a.k.a. Devonport) and launched on 31 March 1798. ''Foudroyant'' served Nelson as his flagship from 6 June 1799 until the end of June 1800. ''Foudroyant'' had a long and successful career, and although she was not involved in any major fleet action, she did provide invaluable service to numerous admirals throughout her 17 years on active service. In her last years she became a training vessel for boys. Design Her designer was Sir John Henslow. She was named after the 80-gun , which and , both 70-gun ships, and (64 guns), had captured from the French on 28 February 1758. ''Foudroyant'' was a one-off design. She followed French practice of favouring large two-decked, third rates mounting 80 guns rather than the typical British preference for building three-decked second-rate sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Undaunted (1886)
HMS ''Undaunted'' was one of seven armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s. Design and description ''Undaunted'' had a length between perpendiculars of , a beam of and a draught of . Designed to displace , all of the ''Orlando''-class ships proved to be overweight and displaced approximately . The ship was powered by a pair of three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, which were designed to produce a total of and a maximum speed of using steam provided by four boilers with forced draught. During her sea trials, ''Undaunted'' reached . The ship carried a maximum of of coal which was designed to give her a range of at a speed of . The ship's complement was 484 officers and ratings.Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 65 ''Undaunted''s main armament consisted of two breech-loading (BL) Mk V guns, one gun fore and aft of the superstructure on pivot mounts. Her secondary armament was ten BL guns, five on each broadside. Protection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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