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2nd of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 30 August 1777 – Launch of French La Sibylle, a 32 gun Sibylle-class frigate The ‘Sibylle’ was a 32-gun fifth rate frigate launched on 1st September 1777 at Brest. She was designed and built for the French Navy by Jacques-Noel Sane in...

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1773 – Launch of HMS Fox, a 28 gun Enterprise frigate

Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and longitudinal half breadth as proposed and approved for building Siren [Syren] (1773) and Fox (1773), and later for building Enterprize (1773), and Surprize (1774), all 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigates. The plan includes a table of the mast and yard dimensions. Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784].

1777 - The frigate USS Raleigh, commanded by Thomas Thompson, captures the British brig, HMS Nancy, while en route to France to purchase military stores.

Scale 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, stern board with decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, longitudinal half breadth for Raleigh (1778), a captured American Frigate, as taken off at Plymouth Dockyard in July 1779, prior to fitting as a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate. Reverse: j6611. Scale 1:96: Quater deck and forecastle, upperdeck, lower deck, fore & aft platforms.
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1866 - Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro hit two mines on 2 September and rapidly sank, taking 53 of her crew with her.


1945 - The Japanese Instrument of Surrender

Representatives of the Empire of Japan stand aboard USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender.

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
3rd of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 3 September HMS Coronation (1685 - 90) and HMS Harwich (1674 - 70) sank in a storm whilst attempting to get into Plymouth Sound, appr. 1.000 of their crews drowned Summer 1691. England was at war with her old enemy France, and the...

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1691 - HMS Coronation (1685 - 90) and HMS Harwich (1674 - 70) sank in a storm whilst attempting to get into Plymouth Sound, appr. 1.000 of their crews drowned

Unknown maker, model of the "Coronation," 1677, boxwood, gold leaf, japanning, mica, brass, and varnish, The Kriegstein Collection

1777 - Launch of HMS Lion, a 64 gun Worcester-class Ship of the Line

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard outline and name on the counter, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Lyon (1777), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Portsmouth Dockyard. Having been launched on 3 September she was completed in early September 1778. Reverse: Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle, upper deck, lower deck (gun deck), and orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Lyon (1777), as built.

1782 - The Ship of the Line USS America is given to France to replace the French ship, Magnifique, which ran aground and was destroyed Aug. 11 while attempting to enter Boston harbor. The ship symbolizes the appreciation for France's service to America and her sacrifices during the American Revolution.

Launching Day, USS America - (Geoff Hunt)

1782 - Battle of Trincomalee, the fourth action between Hughes and Suffren

1782 Battle of Trincomalee in the American Revolutionary War, painted for the British admiral Sir Edward Hughes, the leader of the British forces in the battle

1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
4th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 3 September HMS Coronation (1685 - 90) and HMS Harwich (1674 - 70) sank in a storm whilst attempting to get into Plymouth Sound, appr. 1.000 of their crews drowned Summer 1691. England was at war with her old enemy France, and the...

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1733 - Launch of French Diamant, 50 guns at Toulon

The Isis late the Diamant of 56 Guns, captured from the French 1747. Vol II page 116 (PAF7935)

1758 - Launch of HMS Stag, a 32 gun Niger-class frigate


1762 – Launch of HMS Terrible, a 74 gun Ramillies class Ship of the Line

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Ramillies' (1763); 'Terrible' (1762); 'Russell' (1764); 'Invincible' (1765); 'Magnificent' (1766); 'Prince of Wales' (1765); 'Marlborough' (1767); 'Robust' (1764), all 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers. Note the pencil annotations of chain channels and gunports. An annotation on the reverse states that the class was similar to the 'Superb' (1760), specifically mentioning 'Monarch', 'Magnificent', and Marlborough'.

1781 – Launch of HMS Anson, a 64 gun Intrepid class Ship of the Line

Scale: 1:48. A contemporary ful hull skeleton model of the Intrepid (1770), a third rate 64 gun two-decker ship of the line. Numerous hand written labels attached to inner and outer surfaces of frame identifying specific parts. The ‘Intrepid’ model was almost certainly the one referred to in the following letter from King George III to Lord Sandwich in September 1773: ‘I shall be very curious to receive the model you mean to send tomorrow, and doubt not from the ingenuity of Mr Williams that it will thoroughly explain the construction of a ship, which the more I reflect on it the more it shows the perfection to which mechanics has arrived.’
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1804 - The bomb-ketch USS Intrepid outfitted as fireship, blew up in failed attack on Tripoli with loss of all hands.

Burning of the USS Philadelphia / by Edward Moran (1897) / Intrepid depicted in foreground

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
5th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 4 September 1782 - Action of 4 September 1782 - HMS Rainbow (44) took French frigate Hebe (40) off the Ile de Bas. The Action of 4 September 1782 was a small naval engagement which was fought off the Île de Batz between a French naval...

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1697 – War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship, the Pelican, defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay

The French ship Pélican sinks following the en:Battle of Hudson's Bay (1697). From Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale by Claude-Charles Bacqueville de La Potherie, Paris, Jean-Luc Nion and François Didot, 1722 (en:Library and Archives Canada, FC305 B326)

1758 – Launch of HMS Cerberus, a 28 gun Coventry-class frigate




1770 - a joung boy, William Bligh, entered as able seaman on HMS Hunter


1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War

The French line (left) and British line (right) do battle

1813 - The schooner USS Enterprise captures the brig HMS Boxer off Portland, Maine in a 20-minute battle where both commanding officers die in battle

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
6th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 4 September 1782 - Action of 4 September 1782 - HMS Rainbow (44) took French frigate Hebe (40) off the Ile de Bas. The Action of 4 September 1782 was a small naval engagement which was fought off the Île de Batz between a French naval...

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1781 - HMS Savage (1778 - 14), Charles Stirling, taken by American privateer Congress (1781 - 24), Cptn. Gedded, off Charleston


1800 - Loss of HMS Stag (1794 - 32), Pallas-class


1807 – Launch of French Ville de Berlin, a 74-gun Téméraire class Ship of the Line at Antwerp


1808 - HMS Recruit (1806 - 18), Chas. Napier, engaged French sloop Diligente (1801 - 18) off Antigua

A nice drawing of the sail plan of a Cruizer class brig-sloop. HMS Recruit would have been identical

1870 - HMS Captain capsized with the loss of nearly 500 lives because of design and construction errors that led to inadequate stability

 

[Jimsky]

I absolutely love those models. Any idea who made them, Uwe?

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
7th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 6 September 1842 – Launch of HMS Superb, a 80 gun Vanguard-class Ship of the Line HMS Superb was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 September 1842 at Pembroke Dockyard. H.M.S Superb, (80...

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1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India.

An 18th-century depiction of Henry Every, with the Fancy shown engaging its prey in the background

1775 - During the American Revolution, the British supply ship Unity is taken by the Continental schooner, Hannah, paid for by Army Gen. George Washington. It is the first prize taken by a Continental vessel.

Model of the USS Hannah at the U.S. Navy Museum

1776 – Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).

A diagram of the American Turtle

1797 – Launch of USS Constellation, the second of the original six frigates

Design of the hull of USF Constellation, which it shared with USF Congress.

1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

Lusitania at the end of the first leg of her maiden voyage, New York City, September 1907. (The photo was taken with a panoramic camera.)

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
8th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 6 September 1842 – Launch of HMS Superb, a 80 gun Vanguard-class Ship of the Line HMS Superb was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 September 1842 at Pembroke Dockyard. H.M.S Superb, (80...

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1298 - Battle of Curzola (today Korčula, southern Dalmatia, now in Croatia)


1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor


1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 300 lives.

A woodcut engraving of the collision from Frank Leslie's Illustrated paper

1892 – sinking of the SS Charles W. Wetmore

1923 - At Honda Point, Calif., seven destroyers are run aground due to bad weather, strong currents, and faulty navigation. Twenty-three lives are lost during the disaster.

The seven wrecked destroyers on Honda point.

1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
9th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 8 September1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people. EL Morro Castle was an ocean liner of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for voyages between New York City and...

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1629 – Birth of Cornelis Tromp, Dutch general (d. 1691)


1721 – Birth of Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (d. 1808)


1754 – Birth of William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)



1763 – Launch of HMS Solebay, a Mermaid-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy


1796 - The Action of 9 September 1796
was an inconclusive minor naval engagement between small French Navy and British Royal Navy squadrons off northeastern Sumatra, near Banda Aceh, during the French Revolutionary Wars. The French squadron comprised six frigates engaged on a commerce raiding operation against British trade routes passing through captured parts of the Dutch East Indies, and posed a considerable threat to the weakened British naval forces in the region. The British force consisted of two 74-gun ships of the line hastily paired to oppose the eastward advance of the French squadron.


1943 – Sinking of Italian battleship Roma by airbomb

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
10th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 8 September1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people. EL Morro Castle was an ocean liner of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for voyages between New York City and...

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1759 -The Battle of Frisches Haff or Battle of Stettiner Haff
was a naval battle between Sweden and Prussia that took place 10 September 1759 as part of the ongoing Seven Years' War. The battle took place in the Szczecin Lagoon(German: Stettiner Haff) between Neuwarp and Usedom, and is named after an ambiguous earlier name for the Lagoon, Frisches Haff, which later exclusively denoted the Vistula Lagoon.


1813 - The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay
was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh. It was one of the biggest naval battles of the War of 1812.

Battle of Lake Erie by William Henry Powell, painted 1865, shows Oliver Hazard Perry transferring from Lawrence to Niagara

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
11th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 8 September1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people. EL Morro Castle was an ocean liner of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for voyages between New York City and...

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1778 - Capture of HMS Fox by french Junon


1779 – Launch of french Lutine, a 32 gun Magicienne-class frigate, later HMS Lutine

HMS Lutine in distress

Internal shot of Rostrum at Lloyd's and Lutine Bell

1781 - HMS Richmond (1757 – 32 – Richmond-class) and HMS Iris (1776 - 28 - ex-USS Hancock), were taken when the french fleet under the Comte de Grasse returned at the Chesabeake (6 days after the battle)

Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of a ‘Richmond’-class 32-gun frigate (circa 1757), built in the Georgian style.

1781 - HMS Terrible (1762 - 74) was burnt as unseaworthy due to damage received at the Battle of the Chesapeake

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Ramillies' (1763); 'Terrible' (1762); 'Russell' (1764); 'Invincible' (1765); 'Magnificent' (1766); 'Prince of Wales' (1765); 'Marlborough' (1767); 'Robust' (1764), all 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers. Note the pencil annotations of chain channels and gunports. An annotation on the reverse states that the class was similar to the 'Superb' (1760), specifically mentioning 'Monarch', 'Magnificent', and Marlborough'.

1786 – Launch of HMS Royal Sovereign, a 100-gun first rate ship of the line

Scale: 1:72. A contemporary Block model of the Royal Sovereign (1786), a 100 guns, first rate, three-decker ship of the line. Name "Royal Sovereign" on stern. Number "8" on starboard broadside.


1798 - Launch of HMS Temeraire, a 98-gun ship of the Neptune-class

Scale 1:48. Plan showing the bow inboard side elevation, stern quarter inboard elevation, a section through the bow at Station 24, and a section through the stern at Station Q for 'Temeraire' (1798), and later for 'Neptune' (1797), and 'Dreadnought' (1801), all 98-gun Second Rate, three-deckers. The plan also related to 'Ocean' (1805), prior to being lengthened 11 feet in 1797 to accommodate larger calibre cannon. A version of this plan with alterations in green ink was dispatched to the various royal yards in March 1792. The plan illustrates the proposed (and approved with alterations) manner of erecting a roof over the fore and aft part of the ship to protect it from the weather during construction.

1809 – Launch of HMS Manilla, a 44 gun Apollo-class frigate

Scale: 1:48. A model of one of the nine ships of the 'Artois/Apollo' class of 38-gun frigates designed by Sir John Henslow and built between 1793 and 1795. Seven were built conventionally in private shipyards and two more were constructed experimentally in fir in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham and Woolwich.

1861 – Launch of USS Kearsarge , a Mohican-class sloop-of-war

The deck of Kearsarge after her engagement with CSS Alabama

1943 - During the Salerno, Italy operations, USS Savannah (CL 42) is hit by a German guided bomb.
The explosion kills nearly 200 of her crew, but she remains under her own power to return to the U.S. for repairs.

USS Savannah (CL 42) Is hit by a German radio-controlled bomb, while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. The bomb hit the top of the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret and penetrated deep into her hull before exploding. The photograph shows the explosion venting through the top of the turret and also through Savannah's hull below the waterline. A motor torpedo boat (PT) is passing by in the foreground. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral H. Kent Hewett, USN. / U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph NH 95562.

 

[Charles QC]

You did not mention a very important event
The battle of Plattsburgh
Where a small fleet of American ship (on the order of Thomas Macdonough) defeat a British fleet (under the command of George Downie) for the control of the Champlain Lake
That victory stop the British invasion and save Plattsburgh if Macdonough was not victorious probably the war of 1812-1814 will have ended differentely.

 

[Uwek]

You did not mention a very important event
The battle of Plattsburgh
Where a small fleet of American ship (on the order of Thomas Macdonough) defeat a British fleet (under the command of George Downie) for the control of the Champlain Lake
That victory stop the British invasion and save Plattsburgh if Macdonough was not victorious probably the war of 1812-1814 will have ended differentely.

I am not able to catch every important event, but this one I mentioned......

Take a look at this post of the 11.September, and scroll to 1814 - there is also a link to the 6th September, when the battle started

Naval/Maritime History - 27th of August - Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 11 September 1798 - Launch of HMS Temeraire, a 98-gun ship of the Neptune-class HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the...

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 4 September 1782 - Action of 4 September 1782 - HMS Rainbow (44) took French frigate Hebe (40) off the Ile de Bas. The Action of 4 September 1782 was a small naval engagement which was fought off the Île de Batz between a French naval...

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puhhh

 

[Charles QC]

Following that post only since I join so did not see previous post
The war of 1812-1814 is a special element of the Canadian history.
And one of my for father was with Prevost in front of Plattsburgh
We are a very old French Canadian family go back to 1691 with a lots of history.

 

[Uwek]

Following that post only since I join so did not see previous post
The war of 1812-1814 is a special element of the Canadian history.
And one of my for father was with Prevost in front of Plattsburgh
We are a very old French Canadian family go back to 1691 with a lots of history.

I can understand very well your connection to the Canadian history - Wow. And from which country your for-fathers came?

In my daily posts in this topic, I am making every time the link to the correct day - so to everybody: Use also the link to the correct post with all details

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
12th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 11 September 1798 - Launch of HMS Temeraire, a 98-gun ship of the Neptune-class HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the...

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1711 - The Battle of Rio de Janeiro (12. - 22. September 1711)

Entrada da esquadra francesa em porto do Rio de Janeiro

1764 – Launch of HMS Saint Albans, a 64 gun St Albans-class Ship of the Line


1806 – Launch of french brig Cygne, a 16-gun Abeille-class brig - Part 1 - Naval Event

1/36th scale model of Cygne, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
Size of model: Length: 141 cm (55.5 in); Height: 106 cm (41.7 in); Width: 34 cm (13.3 in)


1814 - The Battle of Baltimore (12. - 15. September 1814)

1857 – The SS Central America sinks


1905 - japanese battleship Mikasa sinks after accidentally explosion


1942 – Ocean liner RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life
The second RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor of the 1911-1917 Laconia. The new ship was launched on 9 April 1921, and made her maiden voyage on 25 May 1922 from Southampton to New York City. At the outbreak of World War II she was converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, and subsequently a troopship. Like her predecessor, sunk during the First World War, this Laconia was also destroyed by a German submarine. Some estimates of the death toll have suggested that over 1,649 people were killed when the Laconia sank. The U-boat commander Werner Hartenstein then staged a dramatic effort to rescue the passengers and the crew of Laconia, which involved additional German U-boats and became known as the Laconia incident.

 

[Charles QC]

Uwe
I am a freak for history so I just love your post. I think that to understand our world we have to know our roots and our history.
The story teach in one country is not necessary what is teach in another, ho the end fact are similar but not necessary the detail.
Take the battle of Trafalgar huge victory for the British but the reason behind the victory is rarely discuss in detail we have to read the Spanish and the French version to be able to make a clear opinion. Same for the war of 1812-1814 the version of the English or Canadian or from the State are different in the detail depending of the way it is teach.
To answer your question my ancestor came from France 3 brothers from the Normandy region in 1691 but a great uncle came earlier with the regiment de Carignan - Salière in 1665 but did not stay here.

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
13th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 11 September 1798 - Launch of HMS Temeraire, a 98-gun ship of the Neptune-class HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the...

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1653 – English 200-ton warship Swan / HMS Swann (1641 - 12) sunk in storm

A barely recognizable, severely corroded and barnacle-covered pocket watch was recovered from the wreck in 1979

1799 - HMS Arrow (1796 - 28) and HMS Wolverine (1798 - 16) captured Batavian Draak (24) and Gier(14), two days later Dolphin (1799 - 24)

The plate represents the sloop 'Dart', commanded by Captain P. Campbell in the act of boarding and taking the French frigate 'La Desiree'. 'Dart' is in the centre of the picture. Inscribed: "Capture of La Desiree - July 7th 1800."


1801 - HMS Lark (16), Lt. Johnstone, captured Spanish privateer schooner Esperance, within the Portillo Reefs, Cuba.


1858 - SS Austria was a steamship of the Hamburg America Line in one of the worst transatlantic maritime disasters of the nineteenth century, claiming the lives of 449 passengers and crew..

Sinking of the SS Austria, at the Deutsches Historisches Museum.

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
14th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 September 1801 - HMS Lark (16), Lt. Johnstone, captured Spanish privateer schooner Esperance, within the Portillo Reefs, Cuba. HMS Lark was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class, launched in 1794 at Northfleet. She served...

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1779 - HMS Pearl (1762 – 32 – Niger-class) took Spanish frigate Santa Monica (32) off the Western Islands

Pearl engages the Santa Monica in the Action of 14 September 1779

1782 - Destruction of floating batteries at Gibraltar


1825 - Launch of HMS Princess Charlotte, 104 gun Princess Charlotte-class First Rate


1848 – Launch of French Henri IV, a 100 gun Hercule class at Cherbourg


1852 – Launch of French Jean Bart, 90 gun Suffren class Ship of the Line




1914 – HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

AE1 with other Australian vessels off Rabaul on 9 September 1914

 

[Uwek]

Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History
15th of September

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Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 September 1801 - HMS Lark (16), Lt. Johnstone, captured Spanish privateer schooner Esperance, within the Portillo Reefs, Cuba. HMS Lark was a 16-gun ship sloop of the Cormorant class, launched in 1794 at Northfleet. She served...

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1806 - HMS Anson (1781 - 64) engaged French Foudroyant (1800 - 80)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Anson' (1781), a 64-gun Third Rate, two decker, as built at Plymouth Dockyard.

1808 - French frigate Canonniere (1794 - 44), Cptn. Bourayne, captured HMS Laurel (1806 - 22), Cptn. J. C. Woolcombe, off Port Louis in Mauritius.


1814 - HMS Hermes (1811 - 20), Cptn. Hon. William Henry Percy, and HMS Sophie (18), Cptn. Lockyer, engaged Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point

lines 6th Rate. NMM, Progress Book, volume 7, folio 65, states that the 'Hermes' was built at Portsmouth Dockyard between May 1810 and 22 July 1811 when she was launched. She was docked on 23 July to be coppered, and sailed on 7 September 1811 having been fitted.

1931 - The Invergordon Mutiny was an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place on 15–16 September 1931. For two days, ships of the Royal Navy at Invergordon were in open mutiny, in one of the few military strikes in British history.

British Atlantic Fleet on exercise in the late 1920s

1942 – World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.

Wasp on fire shortly after being torpedoed.