Naval History On This Day, Any Nation

[Kevin]

24th March

 

 

1801

HMS Fulminante Cutter (10), Lt. Robert Corbett, drifted on Shore at La Cruelle, coast of Egypt.

1804

HMS Wolverine (16), Henry Gordon, while escorting a convoy to Newfoundland, engaged and sunk by two French privateers, one Blonde (36) and another (20).

1806

HMS Reindeer (18), John Fyffe, engaged Voltigeur (16), Jacques Saint-Cricq, and Phaeton (16), Louis-Henri Freycinet-Saulce.

1808

HMS Muros (22), Cptn. Archibald Duff, wrecked at the entrance of the Harbour of Bahia Honda, Cuba.

1811

HMS Berwick (74), Cptn. James Macnamara, HMS Amelia (38), Cptn. Frederick Paul Irby, HMS Goshawk(16), James Lilburne, HMS Hawk and HMS Niobe (38), Cptn. J. W. Loring, destroyed Amazone (40) off Cape Barfleur in a 2 day engagement.

[Kevin]

25th March

 

 

1802

Treaty of Amiens signed, ending French Revolutionary Wars.

1804

HMS Hippomenes, Conway Shipley, captured French privateer Egyptienne.

HMS Magnificent (74), Cptn. W. H. Jervis, wrecked near the Pierres Noires, Brest.

1808

HMS Milbrook Schooner (18), Lt. James Leach, wrecked on the Burlings.

HMS Electra Sloop (16), G. Trollope, wrecked on a reef at the entrance of Port Augusta, Sicily.

1813

USS Essex (46), Cptn. David Porter, takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific

[Kevin]

26th March

 

 

1745

Vice Admiral Martin captured French La Panthere (26) and convoy of 5 sail in the channel

1803

HMS Determinee (24), Cptn. Alexander Becher, stuck broadside on to a sunken rock and bilged near Noirmont Point on the western side of St. Aubyn Bay.

1806

HMS Pique (40), Charles Bayne Hodgson Ross, captured Voltigeur (16), Jacques Saint-Cricq, andPhaeton (16), Louis-Henri Freycinet-Saulce, in the West Indies

1813

Boats of HMS Havannah (36), Cptn. Hon. George Cadogan, captured 10 vessels at Fortore.

1814

HMS Hebrus (36), Cptn. Edmund Palmer, took French Etoile (44), Cptn. Henri Pierre Philibert, and HMSHannibal (74), Cptn. Sir Michael Seymour, took Sultane (40) in the Channel.

[Kevin]

27th March

 

 

1711

HMS Exeter (60), Cptn. Raymond, engages Pembroke (60) off La Spezia

1794

Congress authorizes construction of 6 frigates, including Constitution

1799

USS Constitution (44), Cptn. Samuel Nicholson, recaptures American sloop Neutrality from France  

1811

HMS Tartar (32), Cptn. Jos. Baker, and HMS Sheldrake (16), James Pattison Stewart, engage Danish Flotilla of 12 gunboats, 12 transport vessels etc., under Lt. Jørgen C. de Falsen off the Danish island of Anholt and captures 2 gunboats and 2 other ships.

1812

HMS Rosario (10), Booty Harvey, and HMS Griffon (16), George Trollope,  destroyed 5 French brigs off Dieppe.

[Kevin]

28th March

 

 

1759

HMS Southampton (32), Cptn. James Gilchrist, and HMS Melampe (36), Cptn. William Hotham, took French frigate Danae (40) in the North Sea

1760

HMS Penguin (20), Cptn. William Harris, taken and destroyed by Malicieuse (32) and Opale (32) near the Bayona Islands.

1797

HMS Kingfisher (18), John Bligh, captured French privateer General (14)

1800

USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass Cape of Good Hope

1801

HMS Charlotte Schooner, John Williams,  wrecked on reef of rocks near Island of Ash.

1806

HMS Niobe (38), Cptn. J. W. Loring, captured French corvette Nearque (16) off L'Orient

1814

HMS Phoebe (36) and HMS Cherub (18) under Cptn. James Hillyar capture USS Essex (46), Cptn. David Porter, off Valparaiso, Chile.

Edited March 28, 2014 by Kevin

[Kevin]

29th March

 

 

1745

HMS Anglesea (44) Cptn. Jacob Elton (Killed in Action), captured by French privateer Apollo (54), Cptn. Belleisle, in the Channel.

1795

HMS Cerberus (32), Cptn. J. Drew, captured Jean Bart.

1802

HMS Assistance (50), Cptn. Richard Lee, wrecked between Dunkerque and Gravelines.

1805

French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve sails from Toulon

[Kevin]

30th March

 

 

1781

HMS Flora (36), Capt. William Pere Williams, and HMS Crescent (28), Cptn. T. Packenham, engaged 2 Dutch ships off the Barbary coast. Flora took Castor (32) but Crescent struck to Brille (32) before she was driven away by Flora.

1799

HMS Sparrow (12) and HMS Trent (36), Cptn. R. W. Ottway, at Porto Rico.

1800

HMS Penelope (36), Cptn. Blackwood, HMS Lion (64), Cptn. Manley Dixon, and HMS Foudroyant (80), Cptn. Sir Edward Berry, captured Guillaume Tell (86) off Malta.

1801

British Fleet under Hyde Parker and Nelson forced the Sound.

1808

HMS Cerberus (32), Cptn. W. Selby, and consorts captured the Island of Deseada.

[Kevin]

31st March

 

 

1671

HMS Sapphire (36), Cptn. John Pearce, run ashore at the Isles of Scilly by Cptn. and 1st Lt. to avoid capture when 4 sail sighted and was wrecked. They proved to be friendly and the officers were subsequently sentenced to be shot for cowardice.

1804

HMS Scorpion (18), George Hardinge, and HMS Beaver (14), Charles Pelly, cut out Dutch brig Atalante (16), Cptn. Carp (Killed in Action) from the Vlie passage at the entrance to the Texel.

1813

Batteries at Morjean, a small harbour between Marseilles and Toulon, and 3 vessels destroyed and 11 vessels captured by HMS Undaunted (38), Cptn. Thomas Ussher, HMS Redwing (18), Sir John Gordon Sinclair, and HMS Volontaire.

1823

Boats of HMS Tyne (24), Cptn. Walcott,  and HMS Thracian (18), John Walter Roberts, captured pirate schooner Zarajonaza in the Old Bahama Channel

1854

Commodore Matthew Perry negotiates Treaty of Kanagawa to open trade between U.S. and Japan 

[Kevin]

1st April

as we start the last month

 

1742

HMS Eltham(44), Cptn. Edward Smith, and HMS Lively(20), Cptn. Stewart, engaged three Spanish ships of 60, 40 and 30 Guns off St. Kitts.

1761

HMS Isis (50) took French Oriflamme (56)

1797

HMS Hazard(18), Alexander Ruddach, captured French brig-privateer Hardi(18) off the Skellocks, Ireland.

1809

Boats of HMS Mercury(28), Cptn. Henry Duncan, cut out Venetian gunboat Ledaat Rovigno.

HMS Amelia(38), Cptn. Frederick Paul Irby, destroyed batteries in Aix Roads.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Kevin

[mtaylor]

May?????    Did I sleep through April?

[Kevin]

May?????    Did I sleep through April?

lol = so someone does read it - well spotted,

[Kevin]

2nd April

 

1755

HEICS Protectorattacked and destroyed the fortress of Tulaji Angre

1781

US Frigate Alliance captures 2 British privateers, Marsand Minerva

1801

First Battle of Copenhagen. British under Vice Ad. Nelson destroy moored Danish ships under Cptn. Johan Olfert Fischer.

1804

HMS Apollo(36), Cptn. John William Taylor Dixon, wrecked running on shore in Mondego Bay, Portugal.

HMS Hindostan (54), Cptn. John Le Gros, caught fire off  the coast of Spain and blew up after the crew got ashore.

1814

Boats of HMS Porcupine(22), Cptn. Sir George R. Collier, captured 12 and destroyed 4 vessels.

HMS Gleaner(12), Lt. Alexander Barclay Branch, fouled by other vessels off the mouth of the Adour in a storm and driven ashore. 

Edited April 2, 2014 by Kevin

[egkb]

I read it and I didn't spot it.. admittedly the way I have my computer set up the date ends up off the top of the screen.. honestly !!

 

All The Best

Eamonn

[Kevin]

3rd April

 

 

1801

Boats of HMS Trent(36), Cptn. Sir Edward Hamilton, drove ashore 2 armed escorts and captured French prize.

1804

HMS Swift(8), Lt. William Martin Leake (Killed in Action), captured by French privateer Esperance(10), Cptn. Escoffier.

1805

HMS Bacchante(22), Cptn. Charles Dashwood, captured Spanish schooner Elisabeth (10) off Havana.

1813

Boats of HMS San Domingo (74) and consorts captured 4 schooners, Arab (7), Lynx (6), Racer (6) andDolphin(12),  in the mouth of the Rappahannock River.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Kevin

[Kevin]

4th April

 

 

1655

Burning of the Tunis ships in Porto Farino by British fleet under Robert Blake

1759

HMS Achilles(60), Cptn. Hon. Samuel Barrington, took  French privateer Le Comte de St. Florentine (60), Cptn.  Sieur de Montay, off Cape Finisterre.

1776

Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke, first American capture of British armed vessel

1789

HMS Bounty left Tahiti for the West Indies with breadfruit.

1798

HMS Pallas(32), Cptn. Henry Curzon, lost anchor in a gale and drove on the rocks under Mount Batten, Plymouth.

1806

HMS Renommee(44), Cptn. Sir Thomas Livingstone, captured Spanish brig Vigilante, (18), Lt Don Joseph Julian, from under Fort Callartes, Cape de Gata.           

1808

HMS Alceste(38), Cptn. Murray Maxwell, HMS Mercury(28), Cptn. James Alexander Gordon, and HMSGrasshopper(18), Thomas Searle, took 7 vessels and drove many others ashore at Rota.

1810

Boats of HMS Success(32), Cptn. John Ayscough, and HMS Espoir(18), Robert Mitford, took and set on fire 2 vessels at Castiglione, Calabria.

HMS CuckooBrig (4), Lt. Sam. Nisbett, wrecked on Haaks, off Texel.

1812

Capture of a French privateer xebec Martinet (2)  by the Boats of HMS Maidstone(32), Cptn. George Burdett off Cap de Gatt.

1854

Sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai

Edited April 4, 2014 by Kevin

[Kevin]

5th April

 

 

1769

Thomas Masterman Hardy born in Portisham, Dorset.

1772

HMS Resolution,Cdr. James Cook, and HMS Adventure,Lt. Tobias Furneaux, sailed on voyage of discovery.

1805

Boats of HMS Bacchante(22), Cptn. Charles Dashwood, at stormed a tower and cut out 2 schooners at Mariel, Havana.

1849

The Battle of Eckernførde. Danish Ship-of-the-Line Christian VIII, the frigate Gefion and the paddle steamersHekla and Geiser, under Cdr. S. G. Paludan, attacks the German gun batteries at Eckernførde inlet.Christian VIII takes fire and blows up, while Gefion strikes to the Germans.

Edited April 5, 2014 by Kevin

[flying_dutchman2]

I know I haven't put up much as my season has started. I manage and run a medium sized garden center. I am not as active on MSW from around April first to about the third week in November.

 

1946 - USS Missouri arrives in Turkey to return the body of Turkish ambassador to the U.S. and to show U.S. support and willingness to defend Turkey.

 

Marc

[Kevin]

no problem- i will not be posting anything new from the end of the month, this thread will have ruin a full calendar year.

But thank-you for the contributions that your self and others have done

[Kevin]

6th April

 

 

1776

Continental frigates Warren(34), Commodore John Burroughs Hopkins,and Queen of France(28), Cptn. Joseph Olney, with sloop-of-war Ranger (18), Lt. Simpson, capture British privateer schooner Hibernia (10) and the following day 7 merchant vessels

1797

Boats of HMS Magicienne(32), Cptn. William Henry Ricketts, and HMS Regulus(44) destroyed 11 and cut out 2 merchantmen in the harbour of Cape Roxo, St. Domingo.

1800

Boats of HMS Leviathan(74), Cptn. Carpenter, and HMS Emerald(36), Cptn. M. Waller, captured Spanish brig Los Ingleses (14)

1806

Boats of HMS Pallas(32), Cptn. Lord Cochrane, cut out Tapageuse (14) one of two French brig-corvettes lying in the river Gironde leading to Bordeaux.

While awaiting the return of her boats, Pallas drove on shore two French ship-corvettes, Garonne(20) andGloire (20), and the brig-corvette Malicieuse (16).

1809

HMS Amethyst(36), Cptn. Michael Seymour, captured French frigate Niemen(44), Cptn. Dupotet, in the Bay of Biscay.

1810

HMS Sylviacutter (12), Lt. Augustus Vere Drury, destroyed armed piratical proa in Straits of Sundra.

1811

HMS Arrow(10) in action with chasse marées.

1826

Boats of HMS Alacrity(10), George James Hope Johnstone, took  3 Greek pirate vessels off the island of Psara.

1862

Naval Gunfire from Tyler and Lexington help save Union Troops at Battle of Shiloh  

[flying_dutchman2]

April 6th

 

1909 - Commander Robert E. Peary reports reaching the North Pole

1917 - U.S. declares war on Germany

1945 - First heavy kamikaze attack on ships at Okinawa.

1961 - USS Lake Champlain brings oxygen to aid stricken passenger of British liner Queen of Bermuda.

1968 - USS New Jersey recommissioned for shore bombardment duty in Vietnam

1989 - President orders DOD to assist in Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup

1993 - Branch Navy Hospital Adak responds to crash of civilian Chinese airline providing lifesaving treatment and medical evacuation of 89 injured passengers. Only one passenger out of 265 passengers died.

[mtaylor]

no problem- i will not be posting anything new from the end of the month, this thread will have ruin a full calendar year.

But thank-you for the contributions that your self and others have done

 What?  There's no more new history???  

[Kevin]

7th April

 

 

1776

Continental brig Lexington, Cptn. John Barry, captures British sloop tender Edward off the Delaware

1800

HMS Leviathan(74), Cptn. Carpenter, and HMS Emerald(36), Cptn. M. Waller, captured Spanish frigates Carmen(34), Dom Fraquin Porcel, and Florentina(34), Dom Manuel Norates. 11 merchantmen were also taken.

1810

HMS Sylvia cutter (12), Lt. Augustus Vere Drury, captured piratical proa in Straits of Sundra.

[WackoWolf]

This is going to end?

[Kevin]

I need something else to do, but absolutely no point in repeating all this, was thing about picking one item from each day and linking it to wikki, what do you lot think, I don't want to be putting up my post count if no one is interested

[egkb]

Hi Kevin, I was enjoying where you 'picked' an Admiral, Captain etc  or Event relevant to the day and did a kind of mini Biography/Breakdown of them and so your Idea to pick one item from each day & linking it seems perfect.

 

All The Best

 

Eamonn

[flying_dutchman2]

I second Eamonn's suggstion.  I knowit is a bi more work but we can learn from it.  I will add to it as well with some Dutch Admirals and I have been eading an old book on Merchant Kings that I can quote some of.  (Depends on my time with work)

Marc

[mtaylor]

Or... maybe events from other navies????? 

[Kevin]

8th April

 

 

1681

HMS Nonsuch (42) and HMS Adventure (34), Cptn. William Booth, capture Algerine warship Golden Horse(46).

1709

HMS Bristol (48) captured by French squadron of Achilles(60) and Glorieux(44),  under Duguay-Trouin.

1740

British squadron of HMS Lennox (70), Cptn. Colvill Mayne, HMS Kent (70), Cptn. Durell, and HMS Orford (70), Cptn. Lord Augustus FitzRoy, captured Spanish Princesa (64), Don Parlo Augustino de Gera, off Cape Finisterre

1798

HMS Diamond(38), Cptn. Sir R. J. Strachan, and HMS Hydra(38), Cptn. Sir Francis Laforey, engaged 33 invasion barges in the Caen River.

1814

Seamen and marines from HMS Hogue (74), Cptn. Hon. Thomas Blayden Capel, HMS Maidstone (32), Cptn. George Burdett, HMS Endymion (50),  Cptn. Henry Hope, and HMS Borer destroyed 27 American vessels in the Connecticut River.

[Kevin]

from on this day

1798

HMS Diamond(38), Cptn. Sir R. J. Strachan, and HMS Hydra(38), Cptn. Sir Francis Laforey, engaged 33 invasion barges in the Caen River.

 

http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval_History/Vol_II/P_114.html

 

In order that the expense, thus incurring in the ports of Normandy, might not be entirely lost, or perhaps to fix the attention of the British upon the Channel ports, while preparations were going on at Toulon, the French government ordered an attack to be made upon the small islands of Saint-Marcouf ; of which, in July, 1795, Sir Sidney Smith, with the Diamond frigate, had taken unobstructed possession, and which were considered to give to the English great facility in intercepting the communication between the ports of Havre and Cherbourg. The islands of St.-Marcouf are two in number, lying close together ; one named east and the other west, and each not more than 200 yards in length, by about 120 in breadth, exclusive of two large banks, which, at low-water, are seen stretching to a considerable extent from the shore. The islands are situated off the river Isigny on the coast of Normandy, and about four miles distant from the French shore. After being garrisoned with about 500 seamen and marines, including a great proportion of invalids, these small islands were placed under the command of Lieutenant Charles Papps Price, of the Badger, a cruiser-converted Dutch hoy, mounting four, or at most six guns .* To be prepared for an attempt at recapture, several pieces of cannon were also mounted, both on the principal or western, and on the eastern island ; and, as an additional security, some small vessels of war were appointed to cruise near the spot.

Thirty-three flat-bottomed boats upon Chapman's construction having been launched at Havre, a body of troops, under General Point, was embarked on board of them, and Captain Muskein was ordered, with them and a few gun-brigs, to make a combined attack upon the isles of Saint-Marcouf. On the night of the 7th this little expedition set sail from Havre ; but, the next afternoon, when near the entrance of Caen river, Captain Muskein found his progress obstructed by two British frigates, the Diamond, Captain Sir Richard John Strachan, and the Hydra, Captain Sir Francis Laforey. At 4 p.m. the gun-brigs and flats anchored in a line close to the shore ; and at 5 h. 30 m. the Diamond and Hydra, having worked up to them, opened their broadsides, receiving in return a pretty sharp fire from the heavy long guns of the flotilla. Before the Diamond had discharged above two or three broadsides, she grounded in wearing, and lay fast ; still, however, the frigate kept up a fire from such of her guns as would bear. At 8 h. 30 m. the flotilla ceased firing ; not being able, owing to the darkness, to see the position of their opponents.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Kevin

[egkb]

Brilliant read Kevin.

 

Eamonn