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53 relations: Admiral, Annaba, Aubrey–Maturin series, Baja Studios, Blue at the Mizzen, Brest, France, Builder's Old Measurement, Captain (naval), Carronade, Chase gun, Corvette, Deptford, Forecastle, France, French Navy, French Revolution, French ship Audacieux (1784), French ship Bretagne (1766), Frigate, Frigate captain, Full-rigged ship, Glorious First of June, Hebrides, Hired armed vessels, Historical fiction, HMS Inconstant (1783), HMS Surprise (novel), HMS Surprise (replica ship), Ireland, Jack Aubrey, Le Havre, Lead ship, Letter of marque, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Patrick O'Brian, Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, Puerto Cabello, Quarterdeck, Royal Navy, Saint-Malo, Ship-of-the-line lieutenant, Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet, Sixth-rate, Smallpox, Spain, St Kilda, Scotland, The Nutmeg of Consolation, The Reverse of the Medal, The Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer), ..., Toulon, Treaty of Amiens, United Kingdom. Expand index (3 more) »
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies is the highest rank.
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Annaba
Annaba (عنّابة), ("Jujube Town"), formerly known as Bona, and then Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to Tunisia.
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Aubrey–Maturin series
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
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Baja Studios
Baja Studios is a Mexican film studio that builds large filmings stages and tanks.
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Blue at the Mizzen
The novel Blue at the Mizzen is the twentieth and last completed historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1999.
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Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany.
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Builder's Old Measurement
Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship.
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Captain (naval)
Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships.
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Carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy and first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK.
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Chase gun
A chase gun (or chaser), usually distinguished as bow chaser and stern chaser was a cannon mounted in the bow (aiming forward) or stern (aiming backward) of a sailing ship.
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Corvette
A corvette is a small warship.
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Deptford
Deptford is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham.
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Forecastle
The forecastle (abbreviated fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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French Navy
The French Navy (Marine Nationale), informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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French ship Audacieux (1784)
Audacieux was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
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French ship Bretagne (1766)
The Bretagne was a large 110-gun three-decker French ship of the line, built at Brest, which became famous as the flagship of the Brest Fleet during the American War of Independence.
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Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.
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Frigate captain
Frigate captain is a naval rank in the naval forces of several countries.
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Full-rigged ship
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is term of art denoting a sailing vessel's sail plan with three or more masts, all of them square-rigged.
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Glorious First of June
The Glorious First of June (also known in France as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 or Combat de Prairial)Note A of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Hebrides
The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Suðreyjar) compose a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
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Hired armed vessels
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
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HMS Inconstant (1783)
HMS Inconstant was a 36-gun ''Perseverance'' class fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
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HMS Surprise (novel)
HMS Surprise is the third historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1973.
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HMS Surprise (replica ship)
"HMS" Surprise is a modern tall ship built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.
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Jack Aubrey
John "Jack" Aubrey, is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian.
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Le Havre
Le Havre, historically called Newhaven in English, is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France.
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Lead ship
The lead ship, name ship, or class leader is the first of a series or class of ships all constructed according to the same general design.
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Letter of marque
A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture enemy vessels.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set in the Napoleonic Wars.
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Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.
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Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait
Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait (21 April 1752, Rouen – 8 November 1807, Rouen) was a French engineer, hydrographer and politician, and Minister of the Navy.
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Puerto Cabello
Puerto Cabello is a city on the north coast of Venezuela.
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Quarterdeck
The quarterdeck is a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Brittany on the Channel coast.
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Ship-of-the-line lieutenant
Ship-of-the-line lieutenant is a common naval rank, equivalent to the modern naval rank of lieutenant in the UK, the Commonwealth and the USA.
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Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Joseph Hamilton, 1st Baronet KCB (22 March 1772 – 21 March 1851) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral.
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Sixth-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and sometimes without.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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St Kilda, Scotland
St Kilda (Hiort) is an isolated archipelago situated west-northwest of North Uist, in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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The Nutmeg of Consolation
The Nutmeg of Consolation is the fourteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1991.
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The Reverse of the Medal
The Reverse of the Medal is the eleventh historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1986.
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The Wine-Dark Sea
The Wine-Dark Sea is the sixteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1993.
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Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer)
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, (20 November 1765 – 19 December 1819) was a British naval officer in the Royal Navy whose accolades include three separate fleet actions, a close friendship with Lord Nelson, and a barony in Austria.
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Toulon
Toulon (Provençal: Tolon (classical norm), Touloun (Mistralian norm)) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.
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Treaty of Amiens
The Treaty of Amiens (French: la paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between the French Republic and Great Britain during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Surprise_(1796)
