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19 August 1808 – Death of Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721) Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (9 September 1721 in Gothenburg – 19 August 1808) was a Swedish shipbuilder, scientist and officer in the Swedish navy. He was also manager of the Karlskrona shipyard...

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1777 - Launch of Barfleur-class 90 gun Ship of Line HMS Formidable
HMS Formidable was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship Royal William, launched on 20 August 1777 at Chatham. In about 1780, she had another eight guns added to her quarterdeck increased to 98-guns.

Scale model of HMS Formidable, flagship of Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes. On display at Fort Napoléon des Saintes museum.


1778 - Launch of french 74 gun Ship of the Line Neptune

Saint Remi museum of Reims (Marne, France) ; miltary room, model of the Neptune


1785 – Launch of Yacht HDMS Kronprindsens Lystfregat
HDMS Kronprindsens Lystfregat (literally, "the crown prince's pleasure frigate") was a yacht launched in Britain in 1785. George III gave it to his nephew Frederick, the Crown Prince of Denmark. Kronprindsens Lystfregat cost £10,347 to build and furnish.

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with stern quarter and broadside window decoration, and longitudinal half-breadth for building a yacht for the Prince Royal of Denmark at Deptford Dockyard.


1797 - Launch of french Carrère class 40 gun frigate Carrère at Venice
40-gun design by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait, with 28 x 18-pounder and 12 x 8-pdr guns, plus 4 x 36-pounder obusiers.
Carrère was a French frigate that served briefly in the French navy before the British captured her in 1801, naming her HMS Carrere. She seems never to have seen any meaningful active duty after her capture as she was laid up in 1802 and finally sold in 1814.

1800 - Start of a 6 day engagement in which HMS Seine (48) captured Vengeance (24) off the Mona Passage.
HMS Seine was at West Africa before she sailed for Jamaica in July. On 20 August 1800 Seine attacked the French ship, Vengeance, which had just finished refitting at Curaçao. The vessels broke off action and Seine was unable to resume the engagement until 25 August. Then, after an hour and a half of hard fighting, Seine captured the French frigate. Both ships had sustained heavy casualties; 13 crew were killed aboard the Seine, 29 were wounded, and the ship was cut up. However, Vengeance sustained worse; almost cut to pieces, many considered her beyond repair. Nevertheless Vengeance was repaired in Jamaica and taken into British service under her existing name. In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issue of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Seine 20 Augt. 1800" to all surviving claimants from this action.

Depiction of the capture of Vengeance


1808 - Launch of French Pallas-class fifth rate frigate La Renommée, later HMS Java
HMS Java was a British Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate. She was originally launched in 1805 as Renommée, described as a 40-gun Pallas-class French Navy frigate designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, but the vessel actually carried 46 guns. The British captured her in 1811 in a noteworthy action during the Battle of Tamatave, but she is most famous for her defeat on 29 December 1812 in a three-hour single-ship action against USS Constitution. Java had a crew of about 277 but during her engagement with Constitution her complement was 475.

Capture of the HMS Java Drawn & Etched by N. Pocock, from a Sketch by Lieut. Buchanan / Engraved by R. & D. Havell / Published by Messrs. Boydell & Co.


1810 - The Battle of Grand Port started,
which was a naval battle between squadrons of frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy. The battle was fought during 20–27 August 1810 over possession of the harbour of Grand Port on Isle de France (now Mauritius) during the Napoleonic Wars. The British squadron of four frigates sought to blockade the port to prevent its use by the French through the capture of the fortified Île de la Passe at its entrance. This position was seized by a British landing party on 13 August, and when a French squadron under Captain Guy-Victor Duperré approached the bay nine days later the British commander, Captain Samuel Pym, decided to lure them into coastal waters where his superior numbers could be brought to bear against the French ships.

Detail from Combat de Grand Port by Pierre-Julien Gilbert. Visible from left to right: HMS Iphigenia (seen striking her colours), HMS Magicienne and HMS Sirius being set on fire by their crews, HMS Nereide surrendering, French frigate Bellone, French frigate Minerve, Victor (in the background) and Ceylon. Many of the details shown in the painting did not happen simultaneously, but were spread over several days


1810 – 38 gun frigate HMS Lively (1804) wrecked
HMS Lively was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1804 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month. She was the prototype of the Lively class of 18-pounder frigates, designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, Sir William Rule. It was probably the most successful British frigate design of the Napoleonic Wars, to which fifteen more sister ships would be ordered between 1803 and 1812.

1852 – Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
Atlantic was a steamboat that sank on Lake Erie after a collision with the steamer Ogdensburg on 20 August 1852, with the loss of at least 150 but perhaps as many as 300 lives. The loss of life made this disaster, in terms of loss of life from the sinking of a single vessel, the fifth-worst tragedy in the history of the Great Lakes.

Atlantic, Great Lakes steamboat built 1848.


1857 - The british clipper Dunbar wrecked near harbour of Sydney. From 122 people on board only one survived.

Hand-coloured lithograph inscribed: The Dunbar, 1321 tons


1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.

The anchor was recovered from the Dunbar wreck and now forms part of a memorial to those lost.

 

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First steam frigate to cross the Atlantic, the USS Missouri (1841) arrived and anchored at Gibraltor on 25 August 1843. On the night of 26 August, the engineer's yeoman accidentally broke and ignited a container of turpentine in the storeroom. The flames spread quickly forcing the crew to abandon ship. In four hours, the steam frigate was pretty much lost due to the fire and finally at 0320 on 27 August, the forward powder magazine exploded destroying what was left of the burned hulk.
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Eventually, the South African Navy played a significant supportive role in what is described in the history of South Africa as the "Border War". The formal date for the start of this "Border War" is 26th August 1966. An interesting read in this regard is the book Iron Fist From the Sea (By Douw Steyn and Arnè Söderlund)

 

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24th of August

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Aug 24, 2018

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1217 – Battle of Sandwich and Death of Eustace the Monk, French pirate


The Battle of Sandwich, also called the Battle of Dover took place on 24 August 1217 as part of the First Barons' War. A Plantagenet English fleet commanded by Hubert de Burgh attacked a Capetian Frencharmada led by Eustace the Monk and Robert of Courtenay off Sandwich, Kent. The English captured the French flagship and most of the supply vessels...

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1217 – Battle of Sandwich and Death of Eustace the Monk, French pirate
The Battle of Sandwich, also called the Battle of Dover took place on 24 August 1217 as part of the First Barons' War. A Plantagenet English fleet commanded by Hubert de Burgh attacked a Capetian Frencharmada led by Eustace the Monk and Robert of Courtenay off Sandwich, Kent. The English captured the French flagship and most of the supply vessels, forcing the rest of the French fleet to return to Calais.

The Battle of Sandwich, showing the capture of the French flagship and the killing of Eustace the Monk


1499 - spanish navigator Alonso de Ojeda leads the first Europeans arriving with three caravels in the gulf of Venezuela and Lake Maracaibo. He travelled with the pilot and cartographer Juan de la Cosa and the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
Alonso de Ojeda (Torrejoncillo del Rey, Cuenca-1468 (some sources state 1466) ; Santo Domingo-1515) was a Spanish navigator, governor and conquistador. He travelled through Guyana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago, Curaçao, Aruba and Colombia. He is famous for having named Venezuela, which he explored during his first two expeditions, for having been the first European to visit Guyana, Colombia, and Lake Maracaibo, and later for founding Santa Cruz (La Guairita).

Voyages undertaken by Alonso de Ojeda.


1733 – HMS Warwick 60-gun Completed
HMS Warwick was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth by P. Lock. The keel was laid down on 1 April 1730, and the ship was launched on 25 October 1733, and completed on 24 August 1734.

Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Warwick (1733),


1774 – Launch of HMS Enterprise, a 28 gun Enterprise-class frigate
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The fifth HMS Enterprise (sometimes spelled Enterprize), 28 guns, was the name ship of a class of twenty-seven sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy.

Painting of an fictional model of the HMS Enterprise


1782 – Launch of Censeur a french 74-gun Pégase-class at Rochefort
Censeur was a 74-gun Pégase-class ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1782. She served during the last months of the American War of Independence, and survived to see action in the French Revolutionary Wars. She was briefly captured by the British, but was retaken after a few months and taken back into French service as Révolution. She served until 1799, when she was transferred to the Spanish Navy, but was found to be rotten and was broken up.

1786 – Launch of HMS Elephant, a 74 gun Arrogant-class
HMS Elephant was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by George Parsons in Bursledon, Hampshire, and launched on 24 August 1786.

1789 - The First Battle of Svensksund
also known as the First Battle of Rochensalm from the Russian version of the Finnish: Ruotsinsalmi, was a naval battle fought in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, outside the present-day city of Kotka, on August 24, 1789, during the Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790).

Battle of Svensksund August 24, 1789 by Johan Tietrich Schoult


1798 - HMS Naiad (1797 - 38) and HMS Magnanime (1780 - 44) captured the French frigate Decade (1794/1798 - 36) off Cape Finisterre
HMS Decade was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French Galathée-class frigate Décade, which the British had captured in 1798. She served with the British during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was sold out of the service in 1811.
French service and capture
Décade was built at Bordeaux between March 1794 and January 1795, having been launched on 10 October 1794. She had been previously named Macreuse. After a short career with the French Navy she was captured on 24 August 1798.

A naive drawing depicting the chase and capture of 'Le Decade' by the 'Naiad' on 24 August 1798, off Cape Finisterre (north-west Spain). The 'Naiad', 38 guns, was built by Hall & Co. at Limehouse on the Thames and launched in 1797.


1848 - Ocean Monarch was an emigration barque caught fire at sea and sank with the loss of 178 lives.
The barque was owned by the White Diamond Line and was registered in Boston, the port where she was built. The Ocean Monarch was launched from the East Boston shipyard of Donald McKay in July 1847.

1912 - The collier, USS Jupiter, is launched. The vessel is the first electrically-propelled Navy ship.
USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship. Conversion of another collier was planned but canceled when the Washington Naval Treaty required the cancellation of the partially built Lexington-class battlecruisers Lexington and Saratoga, freeing up their hulls for conversion to the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. Langley was named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American aviation pioneer. Following another conversion to a seaplane tender, Langley fought in World War II. On 27 February 1942, she was attacked by nine twin-engine Japanese bombers of the Japanese 21st and 23rd Naval Air Flotillas and so badly damaged that she had to be scuttled by her escorts.

Jupiter 16 October 1913, the collier, before conversion to Langley, the aircraft carrier.

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) underway in June 1927.


1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of 7 officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
Ryūjō (Japanese: 龍驤 "Prancing Dragon") was a light aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the early 1930s. Small and lightly built in an attempt to exploit a loophole in the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, she proved to be top-heavy and only marginally stable and was back in the shipyard for modifications to address those issues within a year of completion. With her stability improved, Ryūjō returned to service and was employed in operations during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During World War II, she provided air support for operations in the Philippines, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies, where her aircraft participated in the Second Battle of the Java Sea. During the Indian Ocean raid in April 1942, the carrier attacked British merchant shipping with both her guns and her aircraft. Ryūjō next participated in the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in June. She was sunk by American carrier aircraft at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942.

Oblique view of Ryūjō at speed, September 1934

 

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25th of August

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Aug 25, 2018

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25 August 1803 - HMS Seagull (16), Henry Burke, defeated East Indiaman Lord Nelson (late British) which was then boarded by boats of HMS Colossus (74)


Lord Nelson was an East Indiaman, launched in late 1799, sailing for the East India Company. She made five voyages, of which she completed four. On her second voyage the French privateer Bellone captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her within about two weeks. On her fifth...

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1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
Refractors were the earliest type of optical telescope. The first practical refracting telescopes appeared in the Netherlands about 1608, and were credited to three individuals, Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle-makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. Galileo Galilei, happening to be in Venice in about the month of May 1609, heard of the invention and constructed a version of his own. Galileo then communicated the details of his invention to the public, and presented the instrument itself to the Doge Leonardo Donato, sitting in full council.



1803 - HMS Seagull (16), Henry Burke, defeated East Indiaman Lord Nelson (late British) which was then boarded by boats of HMS Colossus (74)
Lord Nelson was an East Indiaman, launched in late 1799, sailing for the East India Company. She made five voyages, of which she completed four. On her second voyage the French privateer Bellone captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her within about two weeks. On her fifth voyage Lord Nelson foundered in 1808 with the loss of all aboard.
2nd voyage
Under Captain Robert Spottiswoode she left Britain on 14 March 1802 for the coast of India and the Bay of Bengal.
Capture
Lord Nelson was on her return voyage when on 14 August 1803 she encountered the French three-masted privateer Bellone off Cape Clear, Ireland. Bellone, of Saint Malo, had had some success privateering in the Indian Ocean towards the end of the French Revolutionary Wars. When the Napoleonic Wars commenced she took to the sea again under the command of her former captain, Jacques François Perroud. She was on her first cruise of the new wars when she encountered Lord Nelson. Bellone had 34 guns, including 24 long 8-pounder guns, and though she had more guns, her broadside was inferior to that on Lord Nelson. What made the difference was that Bellone had a crew of 260 men, versus the 102 men, exclusive of passengers, on Lord Nelson. However, Bellone also had on board some 56 prisoners from various captures.
An engagement of one and a half hours now ensued. Lord Nelson was able to fend off one attempt at boarding, but succumbed to the second. In the fight, Lord Nelson had lost five men killed and 31 wounded. Two of the dead were passengers. Perroud put on board a prize crew of 41 men under the command of Lieutenant Fougie and the two vessels sailed towards A Coruña. On 20 August they encountered a British frigate and the two vessels separated, with the frigate pursuing the captor rather than the captive. Then on 23 August, the British privateer Thomas and John, of fourteen 6-pounder guns, engaged Lord Nelson for two hours before breaking off the engagement. In the course of another day, a hired armed cutter of twelve 4-pounder guns shadowed Lord Nelson before sailing away.

Battle between Bellone and Lord Nelson


1819 – Launch of French Souverain, 118 gun Ocean-class type ship of the Line
Souverain was an Océan type 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was launched in 1819 and transformed into a steam ship in 1853.
Later Dauphin Royal class (continued) Later units of the 118-gun type, begun during the First Empire, were completed at various dates over the next few decades.

1835 - Launch of HMS Vanguard
The sixth HMS Vanguard, of the British Royal Navy was a 78-gun (or 80-gun) second-rate ship of the line, launched on 25 August 1835 at Pembroke Yard.[1] She was the first of a new type of sailing battleship: a Symondite.

H.M.S. Vanguard in Malta Harbour 1837, with Medea and Barham

1843 - Steam frigate USS Missouri arrives at Gibralter completing first Trans-Atlantic crossing by U.S. steam powered ship - and burned by accident
The first Missouri, a 10‑gun side‑wheel frigate, one of the first steam warships in the Navy, was begun at New York Navy Yard in 1840; launched 7 January 1841; and commissioned very early in 1842 Capt. John Newton in command.
Her engines were capable of 600 horse power, and she was said to have cost $600,000 to build.

The accidental Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar - pub by Ackerman in 1843 pic by Duncan, Edward, 1803-1882 (artist) and TG Mends


1927 - USS Los Angeles (ZR 3) rises to a near-vertical position due to the sudden arrival of a cold air front that lifts the airships tail, causing it to rise before she can swing around the mast parallel to the new wind direction. Los Angeles only suffers minor damage but the affair demonstrates the risks involved with high mooring masts.

 

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26th of August

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Aug 26, 2018

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Events on 26 August

1652 - Battle of Plymouth

The Battle of Plymouth was a naval battle in the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 16 August 1652 (26 August 1652 (Gregorian calendar))[a] and was a short battle, but had the unexpected outcome of a Dutch victory over England. General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of Englandattacked an outward bound convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter...

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1652 - Battle of Plymouth
The Battle of Plymouth was a naval battle in the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 16 August 1652 (26 August 1652 (Gregorian calendar))[a] and was a short battle, but had the unexpected outcome of a Dutch victory over England. General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of Englandattacked an outward bound convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. The two commanders had been personal friends before the war. The Dutch were able to force Ayscue to break off the engagement, and the Dutch convoy sailed safely to the Atlantic while Ayscue sailed to Plymouth for repairs.



1767 - Launch of HMS Marlboro (1767 - 74)
HMS Marlborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 August 1767 at Deptford. She was one of the Ramilliesclass built to update the Navy and replace ships lost following the Seven Years' War. She was first commissioned in 1771 under Captain Richard Bickerton as a guard ship for the Medway and saw active service in the American Revolutionary War and on the Glorious First of June. At the battle of the First of June Marlborough suffered heavy damage apparently as a result of her white ensign being mistaken for the French ensign.


1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
Fitch was granted a U.S. patent on August 26, 1791, after a battle with James Rumsey, who had also invented a steam-powered boat. The newly created federal Patent Commission did not award the broad monopoly patent that Fitch had asked for, but rather a patent of the modern kind, for the new design of Fitch's steamboat. It also awarded steam-engine-related patents dated that same day to Rumsey, Nathan Read, and John Stevens. The loss of a monopoly due to these same-day patent awards led many of Fitch's investors to leave his company. While his boats were mechanically successful, Fitch no longer had the financial resources to carry on.

Model of the "Perseverance (steam locomotive)," Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, Germany.


1808 - HMS Implacable (74), Cptn. Thomas Byam Martin, and HMS Centaur (74), Cptn. W. H. Webley, captured Russian Vsevelod (74), Cptn. Roodneff, which was subsequently set on fire as it had run too firmly aground.
The Russian ship Vsevolod (1796) (also Vsewolod; Russian: Всеволод) was a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1796. She served in the North Sea and the Baltic until the British 74-gun third rates Implacable and Centaur destroyed her in 1808 during the Anglo-Russian War (1807-1812).
On 24 August Vsevolod, under Captain Rudno (or Rudnew or Roodneff) exchanged fire with Implacable, with the Russian suffering heavy casualties before running aground. During this exchange three nearby Russian ships failed to render assistance. Vsevolod hauled down her colors, but Hood recalled Implacable because the Russian fleet was approaching. During the fight Implacable lost six men killed and twenty-six wounded, including two who did not recover and three who had limbs amputated.; Vsevolod lost some 48 dead and 80 wounded.

Vsevolod burning, after the action with the Implacableand Centaur, destroyed in the presence of the Russian Fleet near Rogerwick bay on 26 August 1808.


1859 - The Novara-Expedition, he first large-scale scientific, around-the-world mission of the Austrian Imperial navy is returning to Triest
Authorized by Archduke Maximillian, the journey lasted 2 years 3 months, from 30 April 1857 until 30 August 1859.



1865 - American Civil War ends with Naval strength over 58,500 men and 600 ships

 

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27 August, 1839 - Brig Washington seizes Spanish slaver, Amistad, near Montauk Point, N.Y. Replica ship in the pic below.
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27th of August

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Aug 27, 2018

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27 August 1814 – HMS Avon, a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1805, captured by USS Wasp, abandoned and sunk


The Sinking of HMS Avon was a single ship action fought during the War of 1812. In the battle, the ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp forced the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Avon to surrender. The Americans could not take possession of the prize as other British brig-sloops appeared and prepared to engage. Avon...

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1797 - HMS Jason (1794 - 38 - Artois-class) and HMS Triton (1796 - 32 - ), Cptn. John Gore, captured part of a French convoy
HMS Jason was a 38-gun Artois-class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars, but her career came to an end after just four years in service when she struck an uncharted rock off Brest and sank on 13 October 1798. She had already had an eventful career, and was involved in several engagements with French vessels.

Scale: 1:48. A Georgian full hull model of the ‘Triton’ (1796), a 32-gun frigate.


1814 – HMS Avon, a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1805, captured by USS Wasp, abandoned and sunk
The Sinking of HMS Avon was a single ship action fought during the War of 1812. In the battle, the ship-rigged sloop of war USS Wasp forced the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Avon to surrender. The Americans could not take possession of the prize as other British brig-sloops appeared and prepared to engage. Avon sank shortly after the battle.

Caption: The Wasp and Reindeer. Engraving by Abel Bowen, from "The Naval Monument."


1816 - The Bombardment of Algiers
was an attempt by Britain and the Netherlands to end the slavery practices of Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers. An Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Exmouth bombarded ships and the harbour defences of Algiers.

Bombardment of Algiers, 1823, by Martinus Schouman.


1824 – Launch of french Suffren, a 90 gun ship oft he line and lead ship of her class
The Suffren was a 90-gun Ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was the third ship in French service named in honour of Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez.

1/20th scale model on display at the Musée national de la Marine

Straight walls of an arsenal model of Suffren, with the lower long 30-pounder battery, the upper short 30-pounder battery, and the 30-pounder carronadeson the deck


1893 - Columbian Naval Review in harbour of New York

This is a print of the 1893 International Naval Rendezvous that is currently on display in the museum's Steel Navy gallery. Local lithographer and book publisher Sam W. Bowman produced this elaborate and highly detailed image depicting the thirty-seven ships from around the world at anchor in Hampton Roads. Bowman published over 4,000 of the prints and many still survive today.


1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (45 minutes from 09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between the United Kingdom and the Zanzibar Sultanate on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history. The immediate cause of the war was the death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August 1896 and the subsequent succession of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash. The British authorities preferred Hamud bin Muhammed, who was more favourable to British interests, as sultan. In accordance with a treaty signed in 1886, a condition for accession to the sultanate was that the candidate obtain the permission of the British consul, and Khalid had not fulfilled this requirement. The British considered this a casus belli and sent an ultimatum to Khalid demanding that he order his forces to stand down and leave the palace. In response, Khalid called up his palace guard and barricaded himself inside the palace.
At 08:00 on the morning of 27 August, after a messenger sent by Khalid requested parley from Cave, the consul replied that he would only have salvation if he agreed to the terms of the ultimatum. At 08:30 a further messenger from Khalid declared that "We have no intention of hauling down our flag and we do not believe you would open fire on us"; Cave replied that "We do not want to open fire, but unless you do as you are told we shall certainly do so." At 08:55, having received no further word from the palace, aboard St George Rawson hoisted the signal "prepare for action".

British cruiser HMS St George of 1892.


1896 - His Highness' Ship HHS Glasgow sunk by british forces in Zanzibar
His Highness' Ship HHS Glasgow was a royal yacht belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar. She was built in the style of the British frigate HMS Glasgow which had visited the Sultan in 1873. Glasgow cost the Sultan £32,735 and contained several luxury features but failed to impress the Sultan and she lay at anchor in harbour at Zanzibar Town for much of her career. The vessel was brought out of semi-retirement on 25 August 1896 when she participated in the Anglo-Zanzibar War and was soon sunk by a flotilla of British warships. Glasgow's wreck remained in the harbour, her three masts and funnel projecting from the water, until 1912 when she was broken up for scrap.

The HHS Glasgow, taken near Zanzibar. Caption given as "The Sultan's guardship before the Bombardement".


1931 - The Flugschiff ("flying ship") Dornier Do X reached after a monthly journey the harbour of New York City.
The Dornier Do X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced by the Dornier company of Germany in 1929. First conceived by Dr. Claude Dornier in 1924, planning started in late 1925 and after over 240,000 work-hours it was completed in June 1929.

1942 - Launch of USS Iowa (BB 61)
USS Iowa (BB-61) is the lead ship of her class of battleship and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to have served in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

Iowa fires a full broadside of nine 16-inch (406 mm)/50-caliber and six 5-inch (127 mm)/38 cal guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, on 1 July 1984. Shock waves are visible in the water.

 

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October 12, 1492: Christopher Columbus Reaches The “New World”​

Christopher Columbus reaches the Bahamas and became the first European since the Vikings to reach North America, which was then dubbed the “New World.”

 

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When we celebrate Columbus day, we also memorialize all the intrepid explorers who discovered the Western Hemisphere.

 

[AllanKP69]

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. We had the privilege to go out to the USS Arizona when in Honolulu some years ago. At some point while at the memorial over the Arizona I looked up and saw a magnificent sight and took a picture of what we saw, which is below. It has been hanging on our wall ever since.
Allan

 

[donfarr]

TAKE IT OFF OR LEAVE IT UP BY CHRIST WE WERE NEITHER LOOSERS OR SUCKERS BUT MSOLIDERS. GOD BLESS ALL WHO SERVE AND YET TO SERVE THOUGH JESUES CHRIST OUR LORD PROUDLOY DON E. FARR

 

[ConsNZ]

Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. We had the privilege to go out to the USS Arizona when in Honolulu some years ago. At some point while at the memorial over the Arizona I looked up and saw a magnificent sight and took a picture of what we saw, which is below. It has been hanging on our wall ever since.
Allan
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When we were young we sang, danced and in expectation looked forward to welcoming the age of “Peace, love & Understanding” These days I scratch my head in dismay and wonder, what ever happened to the Age of Aquarius? it either never happened or let us down dramatically.

"War is a place where young people who don't know each other, and don't hate each other, kill each other, by the decision of old people who know each other, and hate each other, without killing each other..." – Eric Hartman.

Honour they that Served, who Serve and will Serve. RIP, thank you for your service regardless of nation you served. It was never your fault to die.