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Jack Tar (also Jacktar, Jack-tar or Tar) is a common English term that was originally used to refer to seamen of the Merchant Navy or the Royal Navy, particularly during the British Empire. By World War I the term was used as a nickname for those in the US Navy . [ 1 ]
Jack Tar is a traditional name for British sailors. It depicts, in the centre, the Tory government ministers Lord Hawkesbury and Lord Castlereagh rowing a boat named the Billy Pitt (a reference to the former Prime Minister William Pitt ), and the Foreign Secretary George Canning is towing the captured Danish fleet into harbour behind him.
Jack Tar admiring the Fair Sex Description English: Quayside with a sailor leaning on a bollard talking to two prostitutes, one black, one white; in the background two sailing ships and a rowing boat.
British Tar (1804 ship) was launched in 1793 in Spain under another name and taken in prize. In 1806 she was on a voyage from Labrador to the Mediterranean when a French squadron captured and burnt her. British Tar (1814 ship) was launched at Whitby in 1814. She became a Liverpool-based merchantman, trading across the Atlantic with North ...
Commissioned ships and submarines wear the White Ensign at the stern whilst alongside during daylight hours and at the main-mast whilst under way. When alongside, the Union Jack is flown from the jackstaff at the bow, but can be flown under way on only special circumstances, i.e. when dressed with masthead flags (when it is flown at the jackstaff), to signal a court-martial is in progress ...
British Tar may refer to: British Tar or Jack Tar, a nickname for a sailor; British Tar, several ships "A British Tar", a song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore; British Tar Products, a company distilling coal tar
Jack Tar: Jamaica: The ship was wrecked in a hurricane at Jamaica. [31] Jackdaw: Jamaica: The ship was wrecked in a hurricane at Jamaica. [31] Juanita: Cuba: The schooner sank in the Bay of Matanzas. [16] Lastenia: Cuba: The ship was wrecked, driven ashore or sank at Cárdenas. [16] Lawrence United Kingdom: The ship was wrecked at Havana. [30 ...
Vice-Admiral John Byron (8 November 1723 – 1 April 1786) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname "Foul-Weather Jack" in the press because of his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. [1]