| 01 May |
1689 |
Battle of Bantry Bay. Inclonclusive engagement between an English fleet of 19 ships, under Arthur Herbert, and a French fleet of 24 ships, under François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Château-Renault. |
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1776 |
William Bligh passed as Lieutenant. |
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1795 |
HMS Boyne (98), bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Peyton, Cptn. George Grey, caught fire at Spithead burned and exploded. |
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1811 |
HMS Pomone (38), Cptn. Robert Barrie, HMS Unite (40), Cptn. Chamberlayne, and HMS Scout (18), Cptn. Alex. Renton Sharpe, destroyed Giraffe (26) and Nourrise (14) and an armed merchantman in the Bay of Sagone, Corsica. The two French warships blew up and their burning timbers destroyed a Martello tower and caused a shore battery to blow up.
HMS Guerriere (38), Cptn. Samuel John Pechell, stopped the brig USS Spitfire off Sandy Hook in New Jersey and impressed Maine citizen John Diggio.
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1815 |
HMS Penelope (36), Cdr. James Galloway, wrecked on rocks in the St. Lawrence. |
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| 02 May |
1778 |
King George visited Portsmouth. |
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1804 |
William Bligh appointed Captain of HMS Warrior (74) |
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1808 |
HMS Unite (40), Cptn. Patrick Campbell, captured Ronco (16) off Cape Promontoro in the Gulf of Venice. |
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1809 |
HMS Spartan (38), Cptn. Jahleel Brenton, and HMS Mercury (28), Cptn. Henry Duncan, cut out 12 vessels from the port of Ceseratico and blew up the castle and magazine. |
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1811 |
HMS Dover (38), Lt. Charles Generis (Act)., and HMS Chichester (22), Cptn. William Kirby, wrecked in Madras Roads by a hurricane which arose as they were departing for an expedition against Batavia |
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1813 |
Boats of HMS Repulse (74), Cptn. Richard Hussey Moubray, HMS Volontaire (44) , Cptn. Waldegrave, and HMS Undaunted (38), Cptn. Thomas Ussher, cut out 9 vessels from the port of Morgion and destroyed some batteries in the vicinity. |
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| 03 May |
1710 |
HMS Suffolk captured Gaillard. |
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1810 |
HMS Spartan (38), Cptn. Jahleel Brenton, engaged French Ceres (42), Fame (28), and Achilles (10) and captured Sparviere (8) in Bay of Naples. |
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1812 |
HMS Skylark (16), James Boxer, grounded to the west of Boulogne and was burnt to avoid capture |
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1861 |
USS Surprise captures Confederate privateer Savannah |
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| 04 May |
1796 |
HMS Spencer (16), Cptn. Andrew Fitzherbert Evans, captured French gun-brig Volcan (12) |
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1805 |
HMS Seahorse (38), Cptn. Courtenay Boyle, and boats cut out the largest vessel and sank several more of a Spanish convoy at San Pedro. |
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1806 |
Boats of HMS Renommee (44), Cptn. Sir Thomas Livingstone, and HMS Nautilus (18), Edward Palmer, cut out Spanish schooner Giganta from under the protection of the guns of Torre de Vieja. |
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1809 |
HMS Parthian (10), Richard Harward, captured privateer Nouvelle Gironde (14), M. Lecompte |
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1811 |
A French brig of war (18), destroyed in the harbour of Parenzo on the coast of Istria , by HMS Belle Poule (38) Capt. James Brisbane, and HMS Alceste (38), Cptn. Murray Maxwell. |
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1812 |
Re-capture of Brig-sloop HMS Apelles (14) near Etaples by HMS Bermuda (10), Alexander Cunningham, HMS Rinaldo (10), Sir W. G. Parker, HMS Castilian (18), David Braimer, and HMS Phipps (14), Thomas Wells. |
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| 05 May |
1794 |
HMS Orpheus (32), Cptn Henry Newcome, captured Duguay-Trouin (34) off the Isle of France
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1798 |
HMS Badger (4) and HMS Sandfly gunbrig repulsed 52 gun brigs at Marcon. |
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1799 |
HMS Fortune (10), Lt. Lewis Davies, and gunboats captured by Salamine. |
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| 06 May |
1682 |
HMS Gloucester (60) wrecked off Yarmouth |
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1709 |
HMS Portland (48) re-captured Coventry. |
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1741 |
Samuel Hood entered the navy as Captain’s Servant on HMS Romney (48) |
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1801 |
Nelson succeeds Parker as Commander-in-Chief, Baltic.
Lord Thomas Cochrane in HMS Speedy (14) captures Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo (32), Cptn. Don Francisco de Torris (Killed in Action), off the coast near Barcelona.
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1805 |
Boats of HMS Unicorn (32), Cptn. Lucius Hardyman, took French privateer Tape a bord (4) in the West Indies. |
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1814 |
British squadron under Sir James Lucas Yeo of HMS Prince Regent (56), HMS Princess Charlotte (42) and consorts destroyed a fort and captured USS Growler (5) and other vessels at Oswego, Lake Ontario |
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1694 |
Henry Every (also spelled Avery) leads a mutiny aboard the privateer Charles II anchored off La Coruna, Spain. |
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1709 |
HMS Postillion (10), wrecked near Ostend |
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1765 |
HMS Victory launched
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1779 |
Continental Navy sloop Providence (12), Cptn. John Rathbun, captures British brig Diligent (12) off Cape Charles |
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1794 |
HMS Swiftsure (74), Captain Charles Boyles, captured Atalante (36), Cptn. Charles-Alexandre-Leon Durand-Linois
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1798 |
HMS Victorieuse (14), Cptn.Edward Stirling Dickson, captured French privateer Brutus (6), Cptn. Rousel, off Guadeloupe. |
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1808 |
Boats of HMS Falcon (14), Lt. John Price (act. Cdr.), captured two sail at Lundholm.
HMS Redwing (18), Thomas Ussher, destroyed seven Spanish vessels and drove some into the surf from a convoy of 12 merchantmen escorted by 7 armed vessels near Cape Trafalgar. only 3 vessels escaped.
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| 08 May |
1744 |
HMS Northumberland (70), Cptn. Thomas Watson (mortally wounded), captured by a French squadron of Content (62) and Mars (64). |
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1781 |
HMS Mentor (16), Robert Deans, burnt to avoid capture and HMS Port Royal (18) captured by the Spaniards at Pensacola |
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1794 |
HMS Placienta (6) wrecked off Newfoundland |
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French Patriote (74) captures HMS Castor (32), Cptn. Thomas Troubridge, off Cape Clear |
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1804 |
HMS Vincejo (16), John Westly Wright, captured by French flotilla of 6 brigs and 5 luggersoff the mouth of the Morbihan |
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1807 |
Boats of HMS Comus (22), Cptn. Conway Shipley, cut out Spanish felucca San Pedro from under the protection of a strong fort and two batteries in the port of Gran Canaria. |
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1811 |
HMS Scylla (18), Arthur Atchison, boarded and carried French privateer Canonniere (10), Ensgn. Jean Joseph Benoit Schilds (Killed in Action), and 1 ship of her convoy of 5 off Roscoff. |
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| 09 May |
1784 |
HMS Crocodile (24) wrecked in thick fog on Prawle Point, Devon |
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1795 |
HMS Melampus (36), Sir Richard Strachan, HMS Diamond (38) Cptn. Sir W. Sidney Smith and another frigate left anchorage in Gourville Bay, Jersey and took convoy of 11 French merchantmen and 2 gun-vessels, Eclair and Crache-Feu.
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1812 |
HMS America (74), Cptn. Josias Rowley, HMS Leviathan (74) Cptn. Patrick Campbell, and HMS Eclair (18), Cptn. John Bellamy, carried the batteries at Languelia and captured or destroyed French convoy of 18 vessels. |
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1859 |
HMS Heron (12), William Henry Truscott, foundered between Ascension and Sierra Leone |
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1864 |
The Battle of Heligoland. The Danish North Sea Squadron under Cptn. Edouard Suensson, frigates Niels Juel and Jylland, and the corvette Heimdal, defeat an Austrian squadron under Linienschiffskapitän von Tegetthoff, frigates Schwarzenberg and Radetzky, and the 3 Prussian paddle steamer gunboats Preussischer Adler, Blitz and Brasilisk. |
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| 10 May |
1800 |
USS Constitution (100), Cptn. Silas Talbot captured French privateer Sandwich (6) from the harbor at Port Plate, Hispaniola. |
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1808 |
Start of 5 day engagement between HMS Wizard (16), Abel Ferris, and Requin (16) from off Toulon to Goulette near Tunis. |
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1862 |
Confederates destroy Norfolk and Pensacola Navy Yards. |
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| 11 May |
1762 |
Cptn. John Jervis (later Eart St. Vincent) HMS Gosport (44) escorting convoy to North America repelled a French squadron, under de Ternay, which was on its way to capture Newfoundland. |
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1780 |
Fall of Charleston, SC; three Continental Navy frigates, Boston, Providence, and Ranger, captured and frigate Queen of France sunk to prevent capture |
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1806 |
Capture of Capri by English squadron under Sir Sidney Smith. |
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1808 |
HMS Bacchante (22), Cptn. Samuel Hood Inglefield, captured French national brig Griffon (16), Jaques Gautier, near Cape Antonio in Cuba. |
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1809 |
HMS Melpomene (38), Cptn. Peter Parker, destroyed a Danish man-of-war cutter at Huilbo, Jutland. |
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1862 |
CSS Virginia blown up by Confederates to prevent capture. |
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| 12 May |
1708 |
Sir John Leake's Fleet took a French frigate and convoy. |
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1781 |
HMS Thetis (32) wrecked off St. Lucia |
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1796 |
HMS Phoenix (36), Cptn. Lawrence Halstead, captured Argo (36) in the North Sea. |
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1797 |
The mutiny at the Nore begins |
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1799 |
HMS Courier cutter engaged a French privateer brig near Winterton. |
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1806 |
HMS Pallas (32), Cptn. Lord Cochrane, HMS Indefatigable (44), Cptn. John Tremayne Rodd, and HMS Kingfisher (18), George Francis Seymour, engaged French squadron off Isle of Aix.
Boats of HMS Juno (32), Capt. H. Richardson, and Neapolitan Minerve, Cptn. Vieugna, destroyed batteries at Gaeta.
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1808 |
HMS Amphion (32), Cptn. William Hoste, and boats engaged Baleine at Rosas.
HMS Tartar (32), Cptn. G. E. B. Bettesworth (Killed in Action), and boats engaged at Bergen.
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1810 |
HMS Tribune (36), Cptn. Reynolds, engaged Danish squadron of 4 brigs, under Cmndr Johannes Krieger, outside Mandal, Norway but was forced to withdraw. |
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1846 |
U.S. declares war against Mexico |
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| 13 May |
1793 |
HMS Iris (32), Cptn. George Lumsdaine, engaged Citoyenne Francaise (32) about 6 leagues from Gibraltar in the first action of the war with a French naval ship. |
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1796 |
HMS Salisbury (50) wrecked near San Domingo |
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1798 |
Boats of HMS Flora (36) cut out Mondavi, |
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1807 |
HMS Cassandra (10), Lt. George Le Blanc, lost by upsetting in a sudden squall off Bourdeaux. |
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| 14 May |
1741 |
HMS Wager (24), Cptn. Dandy Kidd, wrecked on the South coast of Chile |
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1747 |
First Battle of Cape Finisterre. 14 British ships of the line under Admiral George Anson attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquière and capture 4 ships of the line, 2 frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour battle in the Bay of Biscay. |
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1757 |
HMS Antelope (54), Cptn. Alexander Arthur Hood, drove ashore and wrecked Aquilon (50) in Audierne Bay. |
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1781 |
HMS Nonsuch (64), Cptn. Sir James Wallace, engaged Actif (74). |
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1801 |
Tripoli declares war against the United States |
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1807 |
Boats of HMS Spartan (38), Cptn. Jahleel Brenton, repulsed by a polacca off Nice. |
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1812 |
HMS Thames (32), Cptn. Charles Napier, and HMS Pilot (18), Cptn. John Toup Nicholas took 29 vessels at Port Sapri, Calabria. Most were destroyed by a gale during the night. |
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| 15 May |
1673 |
British fleet under Cptn. Richard Munden re-capture the Island of St. Helena. |
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1759 |
John Jervis (later Earl St. Vincent) promoted Commander into HMS Scorpion (14). |
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1771 |
Midshipman Horatio Nelson transfers to the Triumph (74). |
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1797 |
Spithead Mutiny ends |
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1804 |
HMS Cruizer (18), John Hancock, HMS Rattler (16), Francis Mason, HMS Penelope (36), Cptn. W. R. Broughton, HMS Antelope (50), Commodore Sir Sidney Smith, and HMS Aimable (32), Cptn William Bolton, engaged Flushing flotilla of 59 vessels (2 praams, 19 schooners and 38 schuyts) off Blankenberg. |
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1806 |
HMS Juno (32), Capt. H. Richardson, supported a Neopolitan sortie from Gaeta. |
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1809 |
Boats of HMS Tartar (32), Cptn. Jos. Baker, drove ashore and captured a Danish privateer (4) near Felixberg on the coast of Courland.
HMS Mercury (28), Cptn. Henry Duncan, bombarded Rotti.
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1813 |
HMS Bacchante (38), Cptn. William Hoste, bombarded Karlebago and destroyed the fort and other defences. |
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1828 |
HMS Parthian (10), George Hotham, wrecked near Marabout Island, Egypt. |
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| 16 May |
1760 |
HMS Lowestoffe (28) sunk in a battle with the French in St. Lawrence. |
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1803 |
Britain declares war on France and Nelson appointed Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. |
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1807 |
HMS Dauntless (22), Christopher Strachey, surrendered to the French at Danzig after grounding. |
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1811 |
USS President (58), Commodore John Rodgers, engaged HMS Little Belt (20), Cptn. Arthur Bingham, off Cape Hatteras. |
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1813 |
Boats of HMS Berwick (74), Cptn Edward Brace, and HMS Euryalus (36), Cptn. Charles Napier, took or destroyed 20 vessels at Cavalarie Bay near Toulon. |
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1820 |
USS Congress becomes first U.S. warship to visit China |
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| 17 May |
1756 |
HMS Colchester (50), Cptn. Lucius O'Brien, and HMS Lyme (20), Capt. Edward Vernon, engaged Aquilon and Fiddle off Brittany |
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1795 |
HMS Thetis (38), Cptn. Hon. Alexander Cochrane, and HMS Hussar (28), Cptn. John Poer Beresford, engaged 5 French flutes Normand, Trajan, Prévoyante, Hernoux, and Raison off Cape Henry, Chesapeake Bay. Raison (18) and Prévoyante (24) were taken.
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1800 |
HMS Railleur (20), Cptn. J. Raynor, and HMS Lady Jane (8), William Bryer, foundered in the English Channel. |
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1809 |
HMS Goldfinch (10) engaged Mouche. |
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1813 |
Boats of HMS Apollo (38), Cptn. Bridges W. Taylor, and HMS Cerberus (32), Cptn. Thomas Garth, took a vessel near Brindisi. |
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| 18 May |
1709 |
HMS Falmouth (50), Cptn. Walter Ryddell, defended a convoy against 4 French vessels off Scilly |
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1759 |
HMS Thames (32) and HMS Venus (32) took Arethuse (36), Marquis Vandrenil, near Audierne Bay |
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1775 |
Benedict Arnold captures British sloop George at St. Johns, Quebec, and renames her Enterprise, first of many famous ships with that name
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1777 |
HMS Beaver (14), Cptn. Jones, took American privateer Oliver Cromwell (24), Cptn. Harman, off St. Lucia. |
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1803 |
HMS Doris (36), Cptn. R. H. Pearson, captured French lugger Affronteur (14), Lt. Marce Dutoya, off Ushant. |
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1807 |
HMS Cassandra (10), Lt. George Le Blanc, foundered off Bordeaux |
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1808 |
HMS Rapid (12) ,Lt. Henry Baugh, sunk by batteries in the River Tagus while attempting to cut out two merchantmen. |
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1809 |
HMS Standard (74), Cptn. Askew Hollis, and HMS Owen Glendower (36) captured the island of Anholt. |
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| 19 May |
1652 |
English fleer under Robert Blake fire on Maarten Tromp's Dutch fleet off Dover starting the First Anglo-Dutch War
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1692 |
Start of Battle of Barfleur, and destruction of ships at La Hogue. A French fleet of 44 ships of the line, under Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville, engaged an Anglo-Dutch fleet of 82 ships of the line, under Edward Russell. |
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1745 |
HMS Superb (60), Commodore Warren, captured Vigilante (58) in Bight of' Louisbourg |
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1759 |
George Rodney promoted Rear-Admiral. |
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1780 |
British fleet under George Rodney engaged French fleet under Comte de Guichen in the West Indies. |
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1808 |
HMS Virginie (38), Cptn. Edward Brace, captured Dutch frigate Guelderland (36), Colonel de mer Pool. |
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1814 |
HMS Halcyon Sloop (18), John Marshall, wrecked on reef of rocks in Annatto Bay, Jamaica. |
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1835 |
HMS Challenger (28) wrecked on coast of Moquilla, Conception, Chile. |
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| 20 May |
1756 |
Battle of Minorca. French fleet under la Galissonnière defeat British fleet under John Byng |
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1797 |
HMS Oiseau (36), Cptn. Charles Brisbane, engaged one of two Spanish frigate off the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. |
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1800 |
HMS Cormorant Sloop (24), Cptn. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, wrecked on a shoal near Rosetta, coast of Egypt. |
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1801 |
Four US warships sent to Mediterranean to protect American commerce under Commodore Richard Dale |
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1811 |
HMS Astrea (36), Cptn. Charles Marsh Schomberg, HMS Phoebe (36), HMS Galatea (36), Cptn. Woodley Losack, and HMS Racehorse (18), James De Rippe, engaged 3 large French frigates, full of troops off Foul Point, Madagascar. Renommee surrendered but Clorinde and Nereide escaped. |
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1813 |
HMS Algerine Schooner (10), Lt. Daniel Carpenter, wrecked Galapagos Roads, West Indies. |
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1815 |
Commodore Stephen Decatur, USS Guerriere, sails with 10 ships to suppress Mediterranean pirates' raids on U.S. shipping |
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1844 |
USS Constitution sails from New York on round the world cruise |
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| 21 May |
1762 |
HMS Active (28), Cptn. Herbert Sawyer, and HMS Favorite, Cptn. Pownall, took Spanish Hermione off Cape St. Vincent. |
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1800 |
Boats of HMS Minotaur (74), Cptn. Thomas Louis, & consorts cut out a galley La Prima, Cptn. Patrizio Galleano, from Genoa. |
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1809 |
HMS Black Joke lugger engaged French Corvette Mouche. |
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| 22 May |
1681 |
HMS Kingfisher (46) engages seven Algerine pirates. |
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1798 |
USS Ganges (24), Cptn Richard Dale, is the first US warship to set sail since independance |
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1801 |
Nelson created Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe. |
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1810 |
Boats of HMS Alceste (38), Cptn. Murray Maxwell, captured four feluccas, drove two on the rocks at Agaye. |
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1812 |
HMS Northumberland (74), Cptn. Henry Hotham, and HMS Growler (12), Lt. Hugh Anderson, drove ashore and destroyed French frigates Arianne (44) and Andromaque (44) and brig Mameluke (18) off Port Louis. |
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| 23 May |
1792 |
George Rodney died |
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1798 |
HMS Braak Sloop (14) foundered in Delaware Bay. |
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1799 |
HMS Les Deux Amis Sloop wrecked in Great Chine, Isle of Wight. |
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1809 |
A Danish flotilla of 20 gunboats, under Lt. Cmdr Ulrich A. Schønheyder, engaged a large British convoy in the "Storebælt" (Great Belt) escorted by 5 ships-of-the-line and 2 frigates. |
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1811 |
HMS Sir Francis Drake (32), Captain George Harris, captured of 14 Dutch gun-vessels off Java.
HMS Amazon (38), Cptn. Parker, captured the French privateer brig Cupidon (14)
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1850 |
America sends USS Advance and USS Rescue to attempt rescue of Sir John Franklin's British expedition, lost in Arctic. |
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| 24 May |
1779 |
Black Prince, owned by Irish and French smugglers, is commissed as an American privateer through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin. |
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1808 |
HMS Swan (10), Lt. Mark Robinson Lucas, destroyed Danish cutter (8) at Bornhohn.
HMS Astræa (32), Cptn. Edmund Heywood, wrecked on a reef off Anegada in the Virgin Islands.
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1810 |
HMS Fleche Sloop (16), George Hewson, wrecked on the Shaarhorn Sand, off Newark, Elbe.
HMS Racer (12), Lt. Daniel Miller, wrecked on the coast of France
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1768 |
James Cook promoted to Lieutenant and given command of the bark, HMS Endeavour. |
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1795 |
HMS Thorn , Cdr. Robert Otway, captured Courier National in the West Indies. |
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1801 |
Boats of HMS Mercury (28), Cptn. T Rogers, re-took and brought out Bulldog from Ancona but had to abandon her. |
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1811 |
Tamatave and French frigate Nereide surrendered to HMS Astrea (36), Cptn. Charles Marsh Schomberg. |
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1812 |
HMS Hyacinth (26), Cptn. Thomas Ussher, HMS Termagant (18), Cptn. Gawen William Hamilton, and HMS Basilisk (14), Lt. George French, silenced the fortress and destroyed a small privateer at Almunecar. |
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1814 |
Boats of HMS Elizabeth (74), Cptn. Leveson Gower, took Aigle off Corfu. |
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| 26 May |
1758 |
HMS Dolphin (24), Captain Benjamin Marlow, and HMS Solebay (28), Captain Robert Craig, engage Marechal de Belleisle (44), François Thurot. |
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1811 |
Boats of the HMS Sabine sloop (18), George Price, captured privateers Guardia De Via, Canari and Madina in the roadstead at Chipiona.
HMS Pilot (18), John Toup Nicholas, destroyed and captured a number of vessels at Stongoli.
HMS Alacrity (18), Nisbet Palmer, captured by French corvette Abeille (20) off Bastia, Corsica.
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1793 |
HMS Venus (32), Cptn. Jonathan Faulknor, engaged La Proserpine (36).
HMS Hyaena (24), Cptn. William Hargood, taken by French Concord (40) in the West Indies .
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1796 |
HMS Suffisante (14), Cdr. Nicholas Tomlinson, captured Revanche (12). |
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1813 |
Boats of HMS Apollo (38), Cptn. Bridges W. Taylor, and HMS Cerberus (32), Cptn. Thomas Garth, took 3 gunboats at Faro. |
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| 28 May |
1672 |
Battle of Solebay. A Dutch fleet of 75 ships, under Lt.-Admirals Michiel de Ruyter, Adriaen Banckert and Willem Joseph van Ghent, surprised an Anglo-French fleet of 93 ships, under The Duke of York and Vice-Admiral Comte Jean II d'Estrées, at anchor in Solebay. HMS Royal James (102) was destroyed by a fireship and the Earl of Sandwich was drowned. HMS Royal Katherine (84), Cptn. John Chichely, struck but was recaptured. The Dutch Jozua was destroyed, Stavoren was captured, and a third ship blew up. |
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1708 |
British squadron, under Charles Wager, of HMS Expedition (70), Cptn. Henry Long, HMS Kingston (60), Cptn. Simon Timothy Bridges, HMS Portland (50), Cptn. Edward Windsor, and HMS Vulture fireship (8), Cdr. Caesar Brooks, engaged Spanish treasure fleet, under José Fernández de Santillán , of eleven merchant ships (some armed), and seven escorting warships San José (64), Cptn. Santillán, San Joaquín (64), Cptn. Villanueva, Santa Cruz (44), Cptn. de la Rosa, Concepción (40), Cptn Francis, Carmen (24), Cptn Araoz, French Le Mieta (34) and French Saint Sprit (32) off Cartagena. San José blew up, Santa Cruz was taken and Concepción beached itself on Baru Island where the crew set the ship alight. The rest escaped. |
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1793 |
HMS Phaeton (38) Cptn. Andrew Snape Douglas, captures the French Prompte (20) off the coast of Spain |
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1803 |
HMS Minotaur (74), Cptn. C. J. M. Mansfield, HMS Thunderer (74), Cptn. William Redford, and HMS Albion (74), Cptn. John Ferrier, captured French frigate Franchise (34), Capt. Jurien, near Brest. |
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1808 |
Boats of HMS Fawn (18), Hon. George Alfred Crofton, cut out a large Spanish privateer schooner and three merchant ships at Porto Rico. |
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1812 |
HMS Menelaus (38), Cptn. Peter Parker, engaged French frigate Pauline and brig Ecureuil off Toulon. |
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1813 |
USS Essex (36), Cptn. David Porter, and prize capture five British whalers |
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| 29 May |
1719 |
HMS Blandford (20), Cptn. Erasmus Phillips, foundered in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of all on board. |
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1758 |
HMS Dorsetshire (70) and HMS Achilles (60), Cptn. Hon. Samuel Barrington, took French Raisonnable (64). |
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1781 |
Colonial frigate Alliance (36), Cptn. John Barry, captures HMS Atalanta (14), Cdr. Sampson Edwards, and HMS Trepassy (14), Cdr. James Smyth (Killed in Action), off Nova Scotia. |
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1794 |
HMS Carysfort (28), Cptn. Francis Laforey, re-captured HMS Castor (32) off Land's End. |
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1797 |
Boats of HMS Lively (20) and HMS Minerve (38), Cptn. George Cockburn, cut out Mutine (14) from the roads of Santa Cruz, under command of Thomas Masterman Hardy. |
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1807 |
HMS Jackall Gun-boat (14), Lt. Charles Stewart, captured by the French after going ashore near Calais. |
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1781 |
HMS Crescent (28), Lt. John Bligh (act.), taken by Gloire (40) and Friponne (36) |
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1798 |
HMS Hydra (38), Cptn. Sir Francis Laforey, and consorts destroyed Confiante (36) |
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1814 |
US Navy gunboats capture three British boats from HMS Montreal and HMS Niagara on Lake Ontario near Sandy Creek, NY |
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1696 |
HMS Lizard (24), Cptn. Joseph Welby, was lost off Toulon |
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1803 |
HMS Resistance (36), Cptn. Hon. Philip Wodehouse, wrecked on Cape St. Vincent |
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1805 |
Bombardment of HMS Diamond Rock commenced. |
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1808 |
HMS Redwing (18), Thomas Ussher, took two sail at Tarifa. |
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1809 |
HMS Topaze (38), Cptn. A. J. Griffiths, took four vessels and destroyed five at St. Maura, Albania.
HMS Unique (12) used as a fireship in Guadeloupe.
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These pages list the key dates in the history of the sailing navies of the world.