Global Information Lookup Global Information

HMS Tartarus information


Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tartarus, after Tartarus, from Greek mythology. A fourth was laid down, but never completed:

  • HMS Tartarus (1797) was an 8-gun bomb vessel, launched in 1792 at Newcastle as the mercantile Charles Dawson. The Navy purchased her in 1797. She was wrecked in 1804.
  • HMS Tartarus (1806) was a 16-gun fireship launched in 1806. She was reclassified as a sloop from 1808 and was sold in 1816.
  • HMS Tartarus (1834) was a Tartarus-class paddle gunvessel launched in 1834 and broken up in 1860.
  • HMS Tartarus was to have been a Cormorant-class wooden screw gunvessel, laid down in 1860 and cancelled in 1864.

and 20 Related for: HMS Tartarus information

Request time (Page generated in 0.9084 seconds.)

HMS Tartarus

Last Update:

have borne the name HMS Tartarus, after Tartarus, from Greek mythology. A fourth was laid down, but never completed: HMS Tartarus (1797) was an 8-gun...

Word Count : 192

The Letter of Marque

Last Update:

man-of-war or letter of marque HMS Tartarus In convoy with Tartarus HMS Dolphin HMS Camel - a transport ship HMS Vulture - sloop HMS Leopard - a transport ship...

Word Count : 3152

1834 in Wales

Last Update:

said to have been named after the Welsh hymn tune "Bangor". 23 June - HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered...

Word Count : 1448

Master and Commander

Last Update:

Pallas – frigate HMS Burford HMS Généreux – 74-gun third rate HMS Tartarus – bomb-ketch HMS Calpe – brig sloop Spanish: Cacafuego – 32 gun xebec frigate,...

Word Count : 3429

Robert Lambert Baynes

Last Update:

1819, was assigned to HMS Vigo. On 2 December 1822 he was assigned shore duty at St Helena before joining HMS Briton and HMS Tartarus on the South American...

Word Count : 1157

1834 in the United Kingdom

Last Update:

British government by the Office of Receipt of Exchequer Act. 23 June – HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered...

Word Count : 1339

Gunboat War

Last Update:

Danes lost 55 men killed and 88 wounded. Boats from HMS Daphne and HMS Tartarus, supported by the brig HMS Forward, drove ashore a Dano-Norwegian convoy at...

Word Count : 3969

Raid on Boulogne

Last Update:

command of the army and launch the invasion. In the meantime the frigate HMS Immortalite was sent under the command of Captain Edward Owen to carry out...

Word Count : 1578

John Pasco

Last Update:

his growing family from the spoils. On his return he was appointed to HMS Tartarus where on 3 April 1811 he was appointed captain. Stationed in Halifax...

Word Count : 1130

List of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy

Last Update:

(1832) – steam vessels reclassified in 1844 as first-class steam gunvessels Tartarus class (1834) – steam vessels reclassified in 1844 as first-class steam...

Word Count : 2075

Liverpool Packet

Last Update:

built at Baltimore and rigged as a Baltimore Clipper style schooner. HMS Tartarus captured the schooner in August 1811. The Halifax Vice Admiralty Court...

Word Count : 955

Tartar

Last Update:

for SpongeBob SquarePants Wayne State Tartars, now called the Warriors Tartarus, in Greek mythology, a place in the underworld Tartarium, a middle age...

Word Count : 279

Tisiphone

Last Update:

impious souls here and there in Tartarus. In Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, she is described as the guardian of the gates of Tartarus, "clothed in a blood-wet dress"...

Word Count : 789

Charles Jackson

Last Update:

merchantman purchased by the Royal Navy in 1797 and commissioned as HMS Tartarus This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...

Word Count : 336

Expedition to Ostend

Last Update:

avoided. HMS Champion, HMS Dart, HMS Wolverine, HMS Crash, and HMS Acute HMS Kite, HMS Cracker, HMS Asp, Vigilant, and HMS Biter HMS Tartarus and HMS Hecla...

Word Count : 2300

List of shipwrecks in 1842

Last Update:

of Barbados before 9 March. Her crew were rescued by HMS Firefly, HMS Spitfire and HMS Tartarus (all  Royal Navy). Debon  France The ship was lost in...

Word Count : 322

Acheron

Last Update:

flowed. The Roman poet Virgil called the Acheron the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and the Cocytus both sprang. The newly dead would...

Word Count : 1021

List of shipwrecks in 1813

Last Update:

1813. "Marine List". Lloyd's List (4803). 10 September 1813. "USS Hornet vs HMS Peacock, 24 February 1813". historyofwar.org. Retrieved 13 November 2020...

Word Count : 3000

List of shipwrecks in August 1844

Last Update:

County Cork. She was refloated with assistance from HMS Hecate and HMS Tartarus (both  Royal Navy) and taken in to Cork. Union  United Kingdom The ship...

Word Count : 1334

List of shipwrecks in 1804

Last Update:

hdl:2027/uc1.c2735021. Retrieved 19 June 2020. "British bomb vessel 'Tartarus' (1797)". Threedecks. Retrieved 11 March 2016. "Shipping and Commercial...

Word Count : 3098

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net