PIRATES and BUCCANEERS
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the rise and death of
piracy left for the history legends of fabulous treasures and great
deeds.Pirates and buccaneers will be remembered as the "kings of the sea."
Geographically mainly operated in the Caribbean, the trade r..
Five galleons set sail from the Port of Plymouth, England, on 13th December 1577, under the command of Francis Drake in his flagship, the Pelican.
Before passing through the Straits of Magellan Drake renamed his ship the Golden Hind, in honour of one of the expeditions patrons, Sir Christopher Hatt..
In 1845, under the command of Sir John A. Franklin, the ships Terror and Erebus
set off on an expedition to navigate the famous Northwest Passage. They
were the first ships to be fitted out with auxiliary steam engines and
were also reinforced with iron plating, fore and aft, to increase their..
The HMS Beagle was one of the most famous
ships of its time for different reasons. The most famous of all they
were without a doubt his journey of naturalistic research, captained by
Commander Robert FitzRoy and with a young Darwin on board.
Launched in the Thames River on May 11, 1820, it wa..
In November 1820, the sinking of the whaling ship Essex,
along with the survival of part of her crew, thrilled and moved the US
public. The year before she had set sail from Nantucket on a new whaling
campaign that was scheduled to last two and a half years, sailing the
South Pacific. Captai..
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The
HMS Erebus was
a Royal Navy ship that
participated with the
HMS
Terror on James Clark Ross’s Erebus
and Terror expedition in
Antarctica
and other expeditions in the Arctic. These two ships were
reinforced
at the bow to resist the twisting of the pack ice on the boat and
they had a ste..
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Voyage
to the Americas
The
Santa Maria, along..
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Schooners were ships used for
different purposes, including coastguard work and the control of
smuggling along the coast, as well as carrying out the functions of a..
HMS Revenge was an English galleon
built by Sir John Hawkins in the shipyards of Deptford in 1577. The
design had some special characteristics. The ratio between the length
and the breadth was narrower, forecastle and sterncastle smallers than
typical galleons with low freeboard. These featu..
The Endeavour was built in June 1764 by Thomas
Fishburn, originally under the name of the Earl of Pembroke. She had a
displacement of 368 tonnes with an overall length of 106 feet, a keel
length of 97 feet, and a maximum beam of 29 feet. She had a broad
rounded bow, a flat stern and was squa..
Built in 1783 as a cargo ship, in 1787 she was purchased by the Royal
Navy for the transporting of breadfruit from Tahiti to the Caribbean.
The breadfruit was supposed to serve as cheap food for the slaves that
worked in the sugar cane plantations.
She set sail from England on 23rd December 1..