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HMS Apollo, the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a fifth-rate frigate of a nominal 36 guns. She was the name ship of the Apollo -class frigates . Apollo was launched in 1799, and wrecked with heavy loss of life in 1804.
Among the dead were Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds and Captain Daniel Oliver Guion. 731 1800 Great Britain: HMS Queen Charlotte – a British 100-gun first-rate ship of the line that, on 17 March 1800, while serving as flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Keith, was reconnoitering the Tuscan island of Capraia when she caught fire. She exploded ...
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1800 Ship State Description Alexander Great Britain: The ship was wrecked at Montrose, Forfarshire with the loss of all hands. [8] Ann and Margaret Great Britain: The ship was wrecked at Usan Ness, Forfarshire with the loss of all hands. [9] Betsey Great Britain: The ship was wrecked in Montrose Bay. Her crew were ...
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 ...
The campaign resulted in the defeat of the English fleet and eventually to a withdrawal with great losses both in lives and ships. 11,000–15,000 1588 Spain: Girona – On 28 October, as part of the Spanish Armada, the Spanish galleass was sunk in a gale off Ireland. Of the estimated 1,300 people aboard, nine survived; 260 bodies were washed ...
The body is found with Peglar's diary, but thought to be a different man because of his uniform. Inuit tell McClintock that a ship wreck came ashore and was much salvaged, and another with many dead bodies inside sank abruptly and was little salvaged; the Inuit who ate from tins in the second ship became ill and several died. [141] [unreliable ...
In fact, the abbreviated form "HMS" was not used until nearly the end of the following century, with the term "His Majesty's Ship" (formally altered to "Their Majesties' Ship" between 1689 and 1694, when William I and Mary II were co-rulers, and to "Her Majesty's Ship" between 1702 and 1714, and again from 1837 to 1901, when there was a queen ...
Pages in category "Shipwrecks in the English Channel" The following 143 pages are in this category, out of 143 total. ... English ship Dragon (1647) HMS Dreadnought ...