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The most numerous class of British capital ships ever built, with forty vessels being completed to this design (they were popularly known as the "Forty Thieves"). Armada 74 (1810) – sold 1863 [17] Cressy 74 (1810) – 1827 planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead broken up 1832 [17]
The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of 1812.Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of the British Royal Navy.
Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel; Hired armed cutter Admiral Mitchell; Albatros (19th-century ship) Hired armed cutter Albion; Hired armed lugger Alert; Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) Ann (1807 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Atlantic ...
Clippers, outrunning the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better. Sometimes these ships could reach 20 knots (37 km/h).
The island provided shelter during crossings of Lake Erie. Some remains were discovered when a section of the island was plowed. [8] In 1679, Robert LaSalle and thirty-two of his men were the first to sail a large vessel in the Great Lakes: the Griffon. They would transport fur and pelts from Green Bay, Wisconsin to Queensland, Ontario ...
Great ships all the ships listed (except Warspite) were rebuilds of earlier ships [4] Due Repulse 40/48 (1610) – also known as Repulse, BU 1645 [4] Defiance 38/40 (1615) – Sold 1650 [4] Warspite 29 (1596) – Harbour service (converted to lighter) 1635 [4] Red Lion 38 (1609) – also known as Lion, rebuilt 1640 [4] Vanguard (1615 ...
The east coast of the United States provided a specifically dense area for raw materials especially around Massachusetts. There was an abundance of oak forests that provided wood for the ships. [5] In the late 1680s “there were more than 2 dozen sawmills around the Maine and Massachusetts areas. These sawmills, along with a dense supply of ...
SS Ohio was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The second of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Ohio and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, [1] and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.