Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 31 May Phoebe and Essex set sail for England, finally anchoring in Plymouth sound on 13 November. The Admiralty repaired Essex, taking her into service as HMS Essex. [e] In mid-April Cherub was at Valparaiso taking on supplies. She was planning to sail to the Marquesas Islands in search of the whalers that Essex had captured. [32]
The Marquesas Islands (/ m ɑːr ˈ k eɪ s ə s / mar-KAY-səss; French: Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te Henua ʻEnana (North Marquesan) and Te Fenua ʻEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.
M/V Aranui 3 was a dual passenger-cargo ship that operated between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.With a homeport of Papeete, French Polynesia, Aranui 3 was registered as a passenger ship under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), for international operation.
The two ships and nine of their prizes put in at the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands on 25 October 1813 for repairs. While they were there, their crews became involved in a local dispute that resulted in the Nuku Hiva Campaign , which temporarily established the United States' first colony and naval base in the Pacific Ocean.
The island are approximately at 9° 20' south of the Equator and 140° 54' west of Greenwich. [7] These islands are part of the Marquesas Islands. From the Marquesas archipelago, Ingraham sailed north to the Sandwich Islands before sailing on to the Queen Charlotte Islands on the northwest coast of North America. [4]
Mercator' made her seventh cruise in 1934, sailing from Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Papeete, to the Marquesas Islands and Honolulu for a Belgo-French scientific expedition. It proved to be a fairly remarkable one to those preceding World War Two.
Pollard favoured sailing west with the prevailing winds and current. The nearest islands to the west were Marquesas Islands, about 1,200 miles (1,900 km) away, but Pollard was afraid they would encounter cannibals there and concluded that it would be better to sail to the Society Islands, about 2,000 miles (3,200 km). Chase and Joy disagreed ...
Nautical charts of Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands (1920) From a Western perspective, the first explorer to discover Fatu Iva was the Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña, on 21 July 1595. It was the first island in the archipelago that he saw, but he was unable to