September 24 (October 5), 1737 in the village of Lublino, Bezhitsk uyezd, Tver province in the family of Major-General was born Alexei Orlov, a Russian statesman and military leader, an associate of Empress Catherine II. In 1749, Alexei Orlov and his brother Gregory was signed up as a private soldie...

The Favorite, commanded by Cyrille-Pierre-Theodore Laplace, arrived in the Bay of Islands on 2 October 1831 and left again on the 11th. On board was the artist François-Edmond Pâris, who was later to have a distinguished naval career, eventually achieving the rank of Admiral. The purpose of the exte...

The frigate "La Lutine" (translated as "The Minx") was considered one of the fastest warships of the French fleet at the end of the 18th century. It was launched by the French in 1779. In 1793, the ship was captured by the Royal Navy and officially accepted into British service. ...

Admiral Sir Edward Hughes (c. 1720 – 1794) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the East Indies Station. Hughes joined the Royal Navy in 1735, and four years later, was present at the capture of Portobelo, Panama. In 1740, he was promoted to lieutenant and served in the Cartagena expedition of 174...

Mordvinov Semyon Ivanovich (1701–1777) - admiral, naval writer. He came from a noble family, dating back to Murat Mordvinov, a native of the Mordovian Horde. Along with other noble children, he was introduced to Peter I and sent to study in Novgorod and then Narva schools (1715). He studied maritime...

The Prince of Asturias was a ship of the line with three decks and 112 guns built at the Royal Shipyard of Havana in 1794, according to a project by Romero Landa and launched on January 28, 1794. It was named in honor of the first-born son of Charles IV. Her advocacy name was Los Santos Reyes. It wa...

("Ambush") was a 32-gun frigate. She served in the French Navy during the War of the First Coalition before being captured by the British. Renamed HMS Ambuscade and later HMS Seine, she participated in the Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy. She was broken up in 1813. French service: Embusc...

Astrolabe was originally a horse-transport barge converted into an exploration ship of the French Navy. Originally named Coquille, she is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville. The name derives from an early navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant. The stamp i...

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HMS Maeander was a Seringapatam-class sailing frigate of the British Royal Navy. Her service included the suppression of piracy, the Russian War, and support for the suppression of slavery with the West Africa Squadron. She was wrecked in a gale in 1870. Maeander was launched at Chatham Dockyard on ...

Diligente was a 20-gun corvette of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. Built at Brest on private plans by Pierre Ozanne, she was particularly fast. The French Navy adopted the design and copied the plans as late as 1848. Originally armed with 6-pounder guns, she was later rearmed with heavier c...

Abraham Duquesne, marquis du Bouchet was a French naval officer, who also saw service as an admiral in the Swedish navy. He was born in Dieppe, a seaport, in 1610, and was a Huguenot. He was the son of a naval officer and therefore became a sailor himself, spending his early years in merchant servic...

Jean-Baptiste du Casse (2 August 1646 – 25 June 1715) was a French privateer , admiral and colonial administrator who lived in the 17th century. and 18th century served throughout the Atlantic world . Du Casse was probably born on August 2, 1646 in Saubusse near Pau ( Béarn ) to a Huguenot family . ...

Kalmar Nyckel (Key of Kalmar) was a Swedish ship built by the Dutch[a] famed for carrying Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, to establish the colony of New Sweden. The name Kalmar Nyckel comes from the Swedish city of Kalmar and nyckel meaning key in Swedish. The name was also a tribute to K...

The Admiraal Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a Dutch 68-gun third rate ship of the line of the navy of the Admiralty of Friesland, one of five provincial naval forces of the United Republic of the Netherlands' In 1795, following the French occupation of the Netherlands, this ship (like all other Dutch War...