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John McLeod (surgeon)
John McLeod, MD ( – 1820) was a Scottish naval surgeon and author. Life John McLeod is said by Joseph Irving to have been born in the parish of Bonhill, Dunbartonshire. The date cannot be verified, for the Bonhill register has been destroyed. As, however, McLeod, after qualifying as a medical practitioner, and serving some time in the navy as a surgeon's mate, was promoted to be surgeon on 5 February 1801, the probability is that he was born five or six years earlier than 1782. During 1801 and 1802 he served as surgeon of different small craft in the Channel, and being left by the peace without employment, half-pay, or any chance of a practice on shore, he accepted an appointment as surgeon of the ship ''Trusty'', Davidson, master, bound from London to the coast of West Africa, in the slave trade, which sailed in January 1803. At Whydah, which he describes as being then esteemed "the Circassia of Africa", on account of the comeliness and jetty blackness of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of The United Kingdom
The national flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, also known as the Union Flag. The design of the Union Jack dates back to the Act of Union 1801 which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The flag consists of the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England (which also represents Wales)), edged in white, superimposed on the saltire of St Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), also edged in white, which are superimposed on the saltire of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland). Wales is not represented in the Union Flag by Wales's patron saint, Saint David, because the flag was designed whilst Wales was part of the Kingdom of England. The flag proportions on land and the war flag used by the British Army have the proportions 3:5. The flag's height-to-length proportions at sea are 1:2. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Whydah
The Kingdom of Whydah ( known locally as; ''Glexwe'' / ''Glehoue'', but also known and spelt in old literature as; ''Hueda'', ''Whidah,'' ''Ajuda'', ''Ouidah'', ''Whidaw,'' ''Juida'', and ''Juda'' ( yo, Igelefe; french: Ouidah) was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States and Brazil before closing its trade in the 1860s. In 1700, it had a coastline of around ; under King Haffon, this was expanded to , and stretching inland. The Kingdom of Whydah was centered in Savi. It also had connection to the city of Ouidah. The last ruler of Whydah was King Haffon, who was deposed in 1727, when Whydah was conquered (and annexed) by the Kingdom of Dahomey. Name The name Whydah is an anglicised form of ''Xwéda'' (pronounced Xʷi-dah), from the Xweda Gbe language and people of Benin. Today, the Beninese city of Ouidah bears the kingdom's name. To the west of it is the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Flying Fish
There have been twelve ships of the Royal Navy that have been named HMS ''Flying Fish'', after the Flying Fish. * was a cutter purchased in 1778 and wrecked off Calais in 1782. The French appear to have refloated her and taken her into service as ''Poisson Volant'', commissioning her at Dunkirk on 12 June 1783. In 1785 or 1786 she was struck off at Brest. * was previously the schooner ''Esperanza'' captured from the French in 1793, recaptured by the French in 1795 and named ''Poisson Volant'', recaptured from the French in 1797 by , and sold in 1799. * was previously the schooner ''Poisson Volant'' captured from the French in 1803. Renamed ''Firefly'' in 1807, she foundered in the West Indies that same year with the loss of all hands. * was a schooner launched in 1804 and captured by prisoners on board. She became the French 5-gun privateer ''Tropard'', which recaptured in 1808. She did not return to service with the Royal Navy. * was the schooner ''Revenge'', purchased in 180 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Buckworth, 1st Baronet
Sir John Buckworth, 1st Baronet (18 October 1662 – 1709) of West Sheen, Surrey, was an English merchant, who was Sheriff of London from 1704 to 1705. Buckworth was baptized at St Olave’s Hart Street London on 28 October 1662, the son of Sir John Buckworth and his second wife Hester, widow of Moses Goodyear. His father was an alderman of London and deputy governor of the Turkey Merchants. Buckworth was described as a person of extraordinary parts who spoke Latin as fluently as English having been well grounded in classical learning. He.became a Freeman of the City of London and of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He married Elizabeth Hall, daughter of John Hall of Yarmouth, Norfolk at Westminster Abbey on 27 October 1687. His travel in Turkey and other places improved his natural and acquired abilities and he returned from abroad a complete gentleman. Buckworth was knighted at petersham, Surrey, on 2 December 1693 and was created a baronet on 1 April 1697. Although he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, vessels used for piracy are pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. The term ''piracy'' generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in the air, on computer networks, and (in s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Arrow
A broad arrow, of which a pheon is a variant, is a stylised representation of a metal arrowhead, comprising a tang and two barbs meeting at a point. It is a symbol used traditionally in heraldry, most notably in England, and later by the British government to mark government property. It became particularly associated with the Board of Ordnance, and later the War Department and the Ministry of Defence. It was exported to other parts of the British Empire, where it was used in similar official contexts. In heraldry, the arrowhead generally points downwards, whereas in other contexts it more usually points upwards. In heraldry The broad arrow as a heraldic device comprises a socket tang with two converging blades, or barbs. When these barbs are engrailed on their inner edges, the device may be termed a ''pheon''. Woodward's ''Treatise on Heraldry: British and Foreign with English and French Glossaries'' (1892), makes the following distinction: "A BROAD ARROW and a PHEO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice Admiralty Court
Vice Admiralty Courts were juryless courts located in British colonies that were granted jurisdiction over local legal matters related to maritime activities, such as disputes between merchants and seamen. American Colonies American maritime activity had been primarily self-regulated in the early to mid-1600s. Smaller maritime issues were settled at court in local jurisdictions, prior to the establishment of courts to specialize in admiralty. In the colony of Massachusetts Bay, for instance, a maritime code to specialize in maritime legislation was created and in 1674 the Court of Assistants was established to determine all cases of admiralty. Typically the courts were presided over by a judge, unless it was deemed more suitable to be presided over by a jury. This was similar in Maryland, where a so-called 'Court of Admiralty' heard cases of maritime issues including sailor's wages, the carriage of goods and piracy. Originally these courts dealt primarily with commercial matters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Serapis
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Serapis'', after the god Serapis of Hellenistic Egypt. * was a 44-gun two-decker fifth rate launched in 1779 and captured later that year by the American John Paul Jones. She became a French privateer and was lost to a fire in 1781. * was a 44-gun fifth rate, launched in 1782, converted to a storeship in 1795, and sold at Jamaica in 1826. * was an iron screw in service from 1866 to 1894. * was a World War I launched in 1918 and sold 1934. * was a World War II S-class destroyer launched in March 1943, transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy The Royal Netherlands Navy ( nl, Koninklijke Marine, links=no) is the naval force of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. During the 17th century, the navy of the Dutch Republic (1581–1795) was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world an ... in October 1945 as , and broken up in 1962. References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Serapis Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown. Inhabited by Kalinago people since the 13th century, and prior to that by other Amerindians, Spanish navigators took possession of Barbados in the late 15th century, claiming it for the Crown of Castile. It first appeared on a Spanish map in 1511. The Portuguese Empire claimed the island between 1532 and 1536, but abandoned it in 1620 with their only remnants being an introduction of wild boars for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited. An English ship, the ''Olive Blossom'', arrived in Barbados on 14 May 1625; its men took possession of the island in the name of King James I. In 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and Barbados became an English and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
£sd
£sd (occasionally written Lsd, spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence" or pronounced ) is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe, especially in the British Isles and hence in several countries of the British Empire and subsequently the Commonwealth. The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations '' librae'', '' solidi'', and '' denarii''. In the United Kingdom, these were referred to as '' pounds'', '' shillings'', and '' pence'' (''pence'' being the plural of ''penny''). Although the names originated from popular coins in the classical Roman Empire, their definitions and the ratios between them were introduced and imposed across Western Europe by the Emperor Charlemagne. The £sd system was the standard across much of the European continent (France, Italy, Germany, etc.) for nearly a thousand years, until the decimalisations of the 18th and 19th centuries. As the United Kingdom remained one of the few countries r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, plus The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays, the term West Indies is often interchangeable with the term Caribbean, although the latter may also include some Central and South American mainland nations which have Caribbean coastlines, such as Belize, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nations of Barbados, Bermuda, and Trinidad and Tobago, all of which are geographically distinct from the three main island groups, but culturally related. Origin and use of the term In 1492, Christopher Columbus became the first European to record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of The Third Coalition
The War of the Third Coalition) * In French historiography, it is known as the Austrian campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Autriche de 1805) or the German campaign of 1805 (french: Campagne d'Allemagne de 1805) was a European conflict spanning the years 1805 to 1806. During the war, First French Empire, France and French client republic, its client states under Napoleon I opposed an alliance, the Third Coalition, made up of the United Kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, the Russian Empire, Kingdom of Naples, Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, Sicily and Sweden. Prussia remained neutral during the war. Britain had already been at war with France following the breakdown of the Treaty of Amiens, Peace of Amiens and remained the only country still at war with France after the Treaty of Pressburg (1805), Treaty of Pressburg. From 1803 to 1805, Britain stood under constant threat of a Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom, French invasion. The Royal Navy, however, secured mastery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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