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Oct 31, 2012 · The HMS Bounty replica tall ship sank this week in Hurricane Sandy. Watch these clips to see the ship's role in movies since the 1960s. The Bounty while docked in Philadelphia earlier this year ...
HMS Dreadnought (1723) was a 60-gun ship of the line built at Portsmouth; HMS Dreadnought (1742) was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1742 and sold 1784. HMS Dreadnought (1801) was a 98-gun second rate launched in 1801, converted to a hospital ship in 1827, and broken up 1857. HMS Dreadnought (1856) was a hospital ship, formerly HMS Caledonia.
Waterline model of HMS Powerful (1895). The hull is painted black with brick-red at the waterline and a narrow white stripe above that runs the entire length of the hull. The anchors have been depicted one on the port side and two on the starboard side and their cables have been painted onto the hull. Other hull details such as guns, ladders ...
HMS Powerful was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard. [2] From 1 January 1839 to the end of 1840 Powerful was commanded by Captain Charles Napier , mainly in the Mediterranean and for much of the time as lead ship of a detached squadron under Napier's orders.
The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy ...
Sep 24, 2019 · The Jersey was a British prison ship, and during the Revolution, it held thousands of prisoners. This by itself is unremarkable, but the Jersey often held thousands of prisoners at one time, crammed in hellish conditions under the decks, like sardines in a tin. There was no light, barely any oxygen, no medical care, and little in the way of ...
The British had taken South Africa in 1806; it had little intrinsic value at the time, but was considered an important port for the route to India. The Boers—descendants of the original Dutch settlers—resented British rule and set up two independent republics, Transvaal and Orange Free State, in the 1830s.
