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28 relations: Battle of Quiberon Bay, Breakwater (structure), Builder's Old Measurement, Captain (Royal Navy), Commodore (Royal Navy), Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, En flûte, Full-rigged ship, Greenland, Impressment, Irish Sea, John Elliot (Royal Navy officer), Kingdom of France, Kingdom of Great Britain, La Rochelle, Letter of marque, Plymouth, Privateer, Quebec, River Mersey, Robert Duff (Royal Navy officer), Royal Navy, Saint-Malo, Seven Years' War, Sixth-rate, Swivel gun, The Lizard, Whaler.
Battle of Quiberon Bay
The Battle of Quiberon Bay (known as Bataille des Cardinaux in French), was a decisive naval engagement fought on 20 November 1759 during the Seven Years' War between the Royal Navy and the French Navy.
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Breakwater (structure)
Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage from the effects of both weather and longshore drift.
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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 (Royal Navy)
Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy.
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Commodore (Royal Navy)
Commodore (Cdre) is a rank of the Royal Navy above captain and below rear admiral.
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Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke
Admiral of the Fleet Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, KB, PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781) was a Royal Navy officer.
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En flûte
En flûte (French: "as a fluyt") is a French naval expression of the Age of Sail to designate a warship used as a transport, with a reduced armament.
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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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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Impressment
Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice.
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Irish Sea
The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.
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John Elliot (Royal Navy officer)
John Elliot (1732 – 20 September 1808) was a Scottish officer of the Royal Navy who served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence.
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Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France (Royaume de France) was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe.
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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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La Rochelle
La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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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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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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River Mersey
The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.
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Robert Duff (Royal Navy officer)
Robert Duff (c.1721 – 6 June 1787) was an officer of the Royal Navy during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence.
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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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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.
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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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Swivel gun
The term swivel gun usually refers to a small cannon, mounted on a swiveling stand or fork which allows a very wide arc of movement.
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The Lizard
The Lizard (An Lysardh) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Whaler
A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized ship, designed for whaling: the catching or processing of whales.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vengeance_(1758)
