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On August 25, the fleet was sailing north to reconnoiter the British strongholds. While at anchor a violent storm blew in on August 26. All of Arnold's ships except Spitfire were able to sail out into the open lake. Spitfire was anchored closest to the lee shore, and was initially unable to set sail against the storm. Arnold ordered her to stay ...
USS Spitfire was a row galley authorized and constructed by Rhode Island during the American Revolution, and was placed in service in 1776 in the Rhode Island Navy.During this age of sail, row galleys were highly maneuverable compared to sailing ships whose movements were dependent on the wind.
HMS Spitfire (1793) was the French privateer schooner Poulette captured and purchased in 1793. She capsized in 1794. HMS Spitfire (1798) was a schooner of 64 tons burthen captured from the French in 1798. She was wrecked off the Amirante Islands in August 1801. [4] HMS Spitfire (1834) was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1834 and wrecked in 1842.
Spitfire and the cutter Sprightly captured the brig Gute Hoffnung. [37] In December 1799 Spitfire captured the Danish ship Twilling Riget. [38] On 22 January 1800 Spitfire came in from Kinsale to Plymouth with a Danish vessel, Havel Rerli, with a cargo of spices and the like, from Batavia. The cargo was worth £150,000 and supposed to be Dutch ...
18 September – The Japanese cargo ship Junyō Maru was packed with 1,377 Dutch, 64 British and Australian, and 8 American [225] prisoners of war along with 4,200 Javanese slave labourers bound for work on a railway line being built in Sumatra when she was attacked and sunk by British submarine HMS Tradewind, whose commander, Lt. Cdr Lynch ...
USS Spitfire may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Spitfire (1776 gunboat), a gunboat on Lake Champlain. USS Spitfire (1776), a Rhode Island galley captured by the British in 1778 during the Mount Hope Bay raids. USS Spitfire (1803), a merchant sloop operated until 1820. USS Spitfire (1814), a ship operated until 1816.
Two sunken vessels from WWII were recently found off the coast of North Carolina. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered the Nazi U-boat 576 and the ...
At that time, Kamehameha - who was king of Hawaii Island - also sought military help in the ongoing war against Maui and the other islands; the British were already assisting him with the construction of a warship. Vancouver presented Kamehameha with a British flag which flew unofficially as Hawaii's flag until 1816. [98]