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24 relations: Admiral, Admiral (Royal Navy), Association (1697), Battle of Vigo Bay, Boom (navigational barrier), Builder's Old Measurement, Cloudesley Shovell, Dava Sobel, Deptford, Deptford Dockyard, Full-rigged ship, HMS Eagle (1679), HMS Firebrand (1694), HMS Romney (1694), John Norris (Royal Navy officer), Kingdom of Great Britain, Longitude (book), Portsmouth, Royal Navy, Scilly naval disaster of 1707, Ship of the line, Siege of Toulon (1707), Third-rate, 1706 Establishment.
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies is the highest rank.
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Admiral (Royal Navy)
Admiral is a senior rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, which equates to the NATO rank code OF-9, outranked only by the rank admiral of the fleet.
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Association (1697)
Association was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697.
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Battle of Vigo Bay
The Battle of Vigo Bay, also known as the Battle of Rande, was a naval engagement fought on 23 October 1702 during the opening years of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Boom (navigational barrier)
A boom or a chain (also boom defence, harbour chain, river chain, chain boom, boom chain or variants) is an obstacle strung across a navigable stretch of water to control or block navigation.
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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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Cloudesley Shovell
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell (c. November 1650 – 22 October or 23 October 1707), was an English naval officer.
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Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics.
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Deptford
Deptford is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham.
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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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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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HMS Eagle (1679)
HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1679.
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HMS Firebrand (1694)
Firebrand was a Royal Navy fireship built at Limehouse in 1694, the first Royal Naval vessel to bear the name.
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HMS Romney (1694)
HMS Romney was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1694.
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John Norris (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Norris (1670 or 167113 June 1749) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially called simply Great Britain,Parliament of the Kingdom of England.
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Longitude (book)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first clock (chronometer) sufficiently accurate to be used to determine longitude at sea—an important development in navigation.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Scilly naval disaster of 1707
The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707.
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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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Siege of Toulon (1707)
The Siege of Toulon took place between 29 July to 21 August 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession when an Allied land and sea force besieged the French naval base at Toulon.
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Third-rate
In the rating system of the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
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1706 Establishment
The 1706 Establishment was the first formal set of dimensions for ships of the Royal Navy.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Torbay_(1693)
