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28 relations: Action of 13 January 1797, Audierne, Île de Batz, Bantry Bay, Brest, France, Broadside, Builder's Old Measurement, Court-martial, Deptford Dockyard, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English Channel, Fifth-rate, Forecastle, France, French frigate Gracieuse (1787), French frigate Virginie (1794), French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794), Frigate, Gun deck, HMS Indefatigable (1784), Ireland, Jibe, Plymouth, Quarterdeck, Robert Carthew Reynolds, Rotherhithe, Ship of the line, The Lizard.
Action of 13 January 1797
The Action of 13 January 1797 was a minor naval battle fought between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Audierne
Audierne is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.
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Île de Batz
The Île de Batz (Enez Vaz in Breton) is an island off Roscoff in Brittany, France.
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Bantry Bay
Bantry Bay (Cuan Baoi / Inbhear na mBárc / Bádh Bheanntraighe) is a bay located in County Cork, Ireland.
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Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany.
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Broadside
A broadside is the side of a ship, the battery of cannon on one side of a warship; or their coordinated fire in naval warfare.
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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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Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
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Deptford Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, in what is now the London Borough of Lewisham, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB (19 April 1757 – 23 January 1833) was a British naval officer.
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English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Fifth-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the penultimate class of warships in a hierarchical system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower.
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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 frigate Gracieuse (1787)
Gracieuse was a 32-gun ''Charmante''-class frigate of the French Navy.
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French frigate Virginie (1794)
Virginie was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
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French ship Droits de l'Homme (1794)
Droits de l'Homme (Rights of Man) was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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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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Gun deck
The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides.
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HMS Indefatigable (1784)
HMS Indefatigable was one of the ''Ardent'' class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.
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Jibe
A jibe (US) or gybe (Britain) is a sailing maneuver whereby a sailing vessel reaching downwind turns its stern through the wind, such that the wind direction changes from one side of the boat to the other.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.
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Quarterdeck
The quarterdeck is a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship.
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Robert Carthew Reynolds
Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds (bap. 30 July 1745 – 24 December 1811) was a long serving and widely respected officer of the British Royal Navy who served in four separate major wars in a 52-year career.
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Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe is a residential district in south east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.
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Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through to the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside firepower to bear.
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The Lizard
The Lizard (An Lysardh) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Amazon_(1795)
