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Emma (1808 ship), the Glossary

Emma was a merchant vessel launched at Calcutta in 1809 that in 1810 served as a government armed ship in the British invasion of Île de France.^[1]

43 relations: Astove Atoll, Azores, £sd, Builder's Old Measurement, Cape of Good Hope, Carronade, Cartel (ship), Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, Chase gun, Chennai, Chilean ship Lautaro (1818), Coquimbo, Davis Strait, Hawaiian Islands, Hired armed vessels, Horsepower, Inhambane, Invasion of Isle de France, Jan Mayen, John Parker (whaling master), Khuriya Muriya Islands, Kolkata, Lahaina, Hawaii, Lerwick, Lloyd's Register, Mahé, Seychelles, Maputo Bay, Melville Bay, Mumbai, Penny, Pohnpei, Praslin, Prize (law), Qeqertarsuaq, Saint Helena, Screw steamer, Seal hunting, Seychelles, Shilling, Sir Andrew Snape Hammond (1802), Suicide, Whaler, Whaling.
Maritime incidents in April 1864

Astove Atoll

Astove Atoll is a large atoll, part of the Aldabra Group, lying in the Outer Islands of Seychelles, southwest of the capital, Victoria, on Mahé Island.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Rochester illustrates the conversion between pence and shillings and shillings and pounds. Old till in Ireland, with "shortcut" keys in various £sd denominations (lower numbers) and their "new pence" equivalent (upper numbers) Toy coin, which teaches children the value of a shilling £sd (occasionally written Lsd), spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence", is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe.

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Builder's Old Measurement

Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship.

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Cape of Good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

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Carronade

A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast-iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy.

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Cartel (ship)

Cartel ships, in international law, are ships employed on humanitarian voyages, in particular, to carry communications or prisoners between belligerents.

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Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen

Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen (13 April 1769 – 9 September 1832) was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars, as Governor General of Pondicherry and the Isle de France (now Mauritius) and as commander of the Army of Catalonia during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Chase gun

A chase gun (or chaser), usually distinguished as bow chaser and stern chaser, was a cannon mounted in the bow (aiming forward) or stern (aiming backward) of a sailing ship.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Chilean ship Lautaro (1818)

Lautaro was initially the British East Indiaman Windham, built by Perry, Wells & Green at the Blackwall Shipyard for the East India Company (EIC) and launched in 1800.

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Coquimbo

Coquimbo is a port city, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.

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Davis Strait

The Davis Strait is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Hired armed vessels

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Royal Navy made use of a considerable number of hired armed vessels. Emma (1808 ship) and hired armed vessels are hired armed vessels of the Royal Navy.

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Horsepower

Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.

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Inhambane

Inhambane, also known as Terra de Boa Gente (Land of Good People), is a city located in southern Mozambique, lying on Inhambane Bay, 470 km northeast of Maputo.

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Invasion of Isle de France

The Invasion of Isle de France was a complicated but successful British amphibious operation in the Indian Ocean, launched in November 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population.

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John Parker (whaling master)

John Parker (1803–1867) was an English whaling master.

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Khuriya Muriya Islands

The Khuriya Muriya Islands (also Kuria Muria, Kooria Mooria, Curia Muria) (جزر خوريا موريا; transliterated: Juzur Khurīyā Murīyā or Khūryān Mūryān) are a group of five islands in the Arabian Sea, off the southeastern coast of Oman.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lahaina, Hawaii

Lahaina (Lahaina) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.

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Lerwick

Lerwick (or; Leirvik; Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland.

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Lloyd's Register

Lloyd's Register Group Limited, trading as Lloyd's Register (LR), is a technical and professional services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.

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Mahé, Seychelles

Mahé is the largest island of Seychelles, with an area of, lying in the northeast of the Seychellois nation in the Somali Sea part of the Indian Ocean.

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Maputo Bay

Maputo Bay (Baía de Maputo), formerly also known as Delagoa Bay from Baía da Lagoa in Portuguese, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Mozambique, between 25° 40' and 26° 20' S, with a length from north to south of over 90 km long and 32 km wide.

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Melville Bay

Melville Bay (Qimusseriarsuaq; Melville Bugt), is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Penny

A penny is a coin (pennies) or a unit of currency (pence) in various countries.

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Pohnpei

Pohnpei (formerly known as Ponape or Ascension, from Pohnpeian: "upon (pohn) a stone altar (pei)") is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group.

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Praslin

Praslin is the second largest island (38.5 km2) of the Inner Seychelles, lying northeast of Mahé.

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Prize (law)

In admiralty law prizes (from the Old French prise, "taken, seized") are equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict.

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Qeqertarsuaq

Qeqertarsuaq (historically known as Godhavn) is a port and town in Qeqertalik municipality, located on the south coast of Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland.

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Saint Helena

Saint Helena is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory.

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Screw steamer

A screw steamer or screw steamship (abbreviated "SS") is an old term for a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine, using one or more propellers (also known as screws) to propel it through the water.

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Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.

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Seychelles

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_(1808_ship)

Also known as Emma (1809 ship).

Emma (1808 ship), the Glossary

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Maritime incidents in April 1864

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