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HMS Hippomenes (1803) HMS. Hippomenes. (1803) HMS Hippomenes was a former Dutch corvette built in Vlissingen in 1797 for the Batavian Republic. The British captured her in 1803 and she served with the Royal Navy until sold in 1813. With the Royal Navy she participated in two notable single-ship actions in the West Indies.
Armament. Privateer: 2 × 4-pounder guns + 10 × 6-pounder carronades. Royal Navy: 12 guns. HMS Redbridge was the French privateer cutter Oiseau, which had been commissioned at Rochefort in August 1803. HMS Argo captured her in September 1803. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS Redbridge. She foundered at Jamaica in February 1805.
Sir Charles Hugh Lowther, 3rd Baronet (26 September 1803 – 6 November 1894) was an English landowner, the third son of Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet and Lady Elizabeth Fane. Lowther was blind from infancy due to an attack of scarlet fever. [1] His mother imported the first embossed books in England for his benefit in 1821.
Casualties. 200–300 dead. The 1803 Garhwal earthquake occurred in the early morning of September 1 at 01:30 local time. The estimated 7.8-magnitude-earthquake had an epicenter in the Garhwal Himalaya near Uttarkashi, British India. Major damage occurred in the Himalaya and Indo-Gangetic Plain, with the loss of between 200 and 300 lives. [2]
Joseph Ritson (2 October 1752 – 23 September 1803) was an English antiquary known for editing the first scholarly collection of Robin Hood ballads (1795). After a visit to France in 1791, [1] he became a staunch supporter of the ideals of the French Revolution. [2] [3] He was also an influential vegetarianism activist. [4]
Lady Barlow. (1803 ship) Lady Barlow was launched as Change at Pegu, or equally Rangoon, in 1803 or 1802, as a country ship, that is she traded east of the Cape of Good Hope. Change was renamed Lady Barlow shortly after her launch. In 1804 Lady Barlow brought cattle to New South Wales, and then took the first cargo from the colony back to England.
1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870) 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899) 1819 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (d. 1885) 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (d. 1874)
