HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before the British sold her to the Dutch navy in 1815. With the Dutch she participated in a major action at Algiers, and then in a number of colonial punitiv...

Battle on the Revel roadstead On May 13, 1790, the Battle of Revel took place, in which Russian sailors under the command of Admiral Chichagov defeated the superior forces of the Swedish fleet On May 13, 1790, the Battle of Revel took place, in which Russian sailors under the command of Admiral Chic...

February 28 (March 11), 1726 in a poor noble family near Kostroma was born Vasiliy Yakovlevich Chichagov, a prominent Russian navigator and admiral (1782). Chichagov was educated at home, and later graduated from the Naval School in Moscow. He began his service as a midshipman, had served in all the...

François-Joseph-Paul, count de Grasse, (born September 13, 1722, Le Bar, France—died January 11, 1788, Paris), French naval commander who engaged British forces during the American Revolution (1775–83). De Grasse took service in 1734 on the galleys of the Knights of Malta, and in 1740 he entered the...

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands in the American War of Independence, particularly his victory over the French at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782. (See also: viewtopic.php?f=2&a...

Admiral Sir George Pocock or Pococke, KB (6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792) was a British officer of the Royal Navy. Pocock was born in Thames Ditton in Surrey, the son of Thomas Pocock, a chaplain in the Royal Navy. His great grandfather was Rev. Dr. Laurence Pocock, Rector of Brightwalton in Berkshire ...

Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa- last captain general of the first round-the-world expedition... He was born in Espinosa de Los Monteros (Burgos) in 1485. He died probably in Seville, where he spent the last years of his life until at least 1545. Captain general of Magellan's expedition from September 152...

Voyage of Blonde, showing the main places visited. (The lines between these places are purely schematic and do not represent the actual route.) The journey out to Hawaii is shown in blue, the return in green. HMS Blonde was a 46-gun modified Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate of 1,103 tons burthen. She...

Grigory Andreyevich Spiridov (Russian: Григорий Андреевич Спиридов) (1713, Vyborg - 19 April [O.S. 8 April] 1790, Moscow) was a leading Russian naval commander and admiral (1769). One of the greatest naval commanders in Russian history.[1] Grigory Spiridov began his career in the Russian Navy in 172...

Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai was a higher-castled Portuguese carrack with 140 guns, launched down in 1520 (800 t, length 38 m, width 13 m, draft 4–4.5 m). Built in Kochi, India around 1512 it had two square rig masts and is depicted on a painting attributed to Joachim Patinir. In 1524, it was the f...

1.Victoria 1519. Artist E. Voishvillo. 2.Victoria 1519.Carlos I Medal. Barbados 2019; 5$. Philippines 2002;5р.

Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a Royal Navy officer, politician and peer. Anson served as a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro, off the south ti...

Anne Hilarion de Tourville.
The stamp depicts a portrait of the count against the background of a painting by the artist
Richard Paton «Battle of Barfleur, 19 May 1692».
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Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse June 6, 1678 , Versailles - December 11 , 1737 , Rambouillet , metropolis of France is the third legitimated son of King Louis XIV of France and the Marquise de Montespan , his official mistress from 1668 to 1680. He held the titles of Count of Toulouse ...

As everyone knows, Columbus had three ships on his first voyage, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. The flagship Santa Maria had the nickname La Gallega. It was a nao, which simply means “ship” in old Spanish; today, we might call such a ship a carrack. She was fat and slow, designed for haul...