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HMS Java was a British Royal Navy 38-gun fifth-rate frigate.She was originally laid down in 1805 as Renommée, described as a 40-gun Pallas-class French Navy frigate, but the vessel actually carried 46 guns.
Captain Robert Maunsell capturing French Gunboats off the mouth of the Indramayo, July 1811. The British force, initially under the command of Vice-Admiral William O'Bryen Drury, and then after his death in March 1811, under Commodore William Robert Broughton, assembled at bases in India in early 1811. [6]
Captain Commando [a] is a 1991 beat 'em up video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades.It was the seventeenth game produced for the company's CP System hardware. . The game stars the titular superhero who was originally conceived as a fictional spokesman used by Capcom USA in the company's console games during the late 19
The torpedo ignited the magazines to Java's 5.9-inch (15 cm) main battery, and a massive explosion blew the cruiser apart in an instant. In under two minutes, Java sank, with only 19 of her crew of 526 surviving. [5] [7] [9] [13] [24] Haguro under refit in 1936. Four minutes later, one of Haguro's torpedoes hit Admiral Doorman's flagship.
The Java War of 1741 to 1743 was an armed struggle by a joint Chinese and Javanese army against the Dutch East India Company and pro-Dutch Javanese that took place in central and eastern Java. Ending in victory for the Dutch, the war led to the fall of the Sultanate of Mataram and, indirectly, the founding of both the Sunanate of Surakarta and ...
Karel Willem Frederik Marie Doorman (23 April 1889 – 28 February 1942) was a Dutch naval officer who during World War II commanded remnants of the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command naval strike forces in the Battle of the Java Sea.
On 8 July of the following year, Rainier engaged and captured a large American privateer, and was badly wounded in the battle. In reward for this action, Rainier was promoted to post-captain on 29 October. He received his next command, that of the 64-gun ship of the line HMS Burford, in January 1779. [1]
The Battle of Sunda Strait was a naval battle which occurred during World War II in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java, and Sumatra.On the night of 28 February – 1 March 1942, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth, American heavy cruiser USS Houston, and Dutch destroyer HNLMS Evertsen faced a major Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) task force.