HMS Mediator (1782), the Glossary
HMS Mediator was a ''Roebuck''-class 44-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy.[1]
Table of Contents
79 relations: Action of 12 December 1782, Admiralty (United Kingdom), Algoa Bay, American Revolutionary War, Antigua, Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Barbados, Battle of Corunna, Benjamin Hallowell Carew, Brig, British Leeward Islands, British Warships in the Age of Sail, Broad pennant, Broadside (naval), Builder's Old Measurement, Cape of Good Hope, Careening, Chargé d'affaires, Combat stores ship, Commodore (Royal Navy), Copper sheathing, Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, Deptford, Dictionary of National Biography, Dominic Serres, Earl of Carhampton, East Indiaman, Edward Rotheram, En flûte, English Harbour, Ferrol, Spain, Fifth-rate, Forecastle, Fourth-rate, Francis Dundas, French frigate Preneuse (1794), French Revolutionary Wars, Frigate, Full-rigged ship, George III, Gun deck, Half-pay, HMNB Portsmouth, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, James Luttrell, Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite, John Knox Laughton, John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton, John Moutray, Keel, ... Expand index (29 more) »
- Storeships of the Royal Navy
Action of 12 December 1782
The action of 12 December 1782 was a naval engagement fought off the coast of Spain near Ferrol, in which the British 40-gun fifth rate HMS ''Mediator'' successfully attacked a convoy of five armed ships.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Action of 12 December 1782
Admiralty (United Kingdom)
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
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Algoa Bay
Algoa Bay is a maritime bay in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
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Antigua
Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the local population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles.
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Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, PC (25 April 17252 October 1786) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755 to 1782. He saw action in command of various ships, including the fourth-rate, during the War of the Austrian Succession. He went on to serve as Commodore on the North American Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica Station during the Seven Years' War.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
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Battle of Corunna
The Battle of Corunna (or A Coruña, La Corunna, La Coruña or La Corogne), in Spain known as Battle of Elviña, took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal of the Empire Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore.
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Benjamin Hallowell Carew
Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew (born Benjamin Hallowell; ?1 January 1761 – 2 September 1834) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy.
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Brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Brig
British Leeward Islands
The British Leeward Islands was a British colony from 1671 to 1958, consisting of the English (later British) overseas possessions in the Leeward Islands.
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British Warships in the Age of Sail
British Warships in the Age of Sail is a series of four books by maritime historian Rif Winfield comprising a historical reference work providing details of all recorded ships that served or were intended to serve in the (British) Royal Navy from 1603 to 1863.
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Broad pennant
A broad pennant is a triangular swallow-tailed naval pennant flown from the masthead of a warship afloat or a naval headquarters ashore to indicate the presence of either: (a) a Royal Navy officer in the rank of Commodore, or (b) a U.S. Navy Captain serving in a designated Commodore command billet.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Broad pennant
Broadside (naval)
A broadside is the side of a ship, or more specifically the battery of cannon on one side of a warship or their coordinated fire in naval warfare, or a measurement of a warship's maximum simultaneous firepower which can be delivered upon a single target (because this concentration is usually obtained by firing a broadside).
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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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Careening
Careening (also known as "heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock.
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Chargé d'affaires
A chargé d'affaires, plural chargés d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D, is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador.
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Combat stores ship
Combat stores ships, or storeships, are ships used to store naval supplies.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Combat stores ship
Commodore (Royal Navy)
Commodore (Cdre) is a rank of the Royal Navy above captain and below rear admiral.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Commodore (Royal Navy)
Copper sheathing
Copper sheathing is a method for protecting the hull of a wooden vessel from attack by shipworm, barnacles and other marine growth through the use of copper plates affixed to the surface of the hull, below the waterline.
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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
Deptford
Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham.
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.
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Dominic Serres
Dominic Serres (1722–1793), also known as Dominic Serres the Elder, was a French-born painter strongly associated with the English school of painting, and with paintings with a naval or marine theme.
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Earl of Carhampton
Earl of Carhampton was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
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East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries.
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Edward Rotheram
Captain Edward Rotheram CB (27 December 1753 – 6 November 1830) was a senior officer of the British Royal Navy, who served for many years during the American War of Independence, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic Wars.
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En flûte
En flûte (French: "as a fluyt") is a French naval expression of the Age of Sail to designate the use of a warship as a transport with reduced armament.
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English Harbour
English Harbour is a natural harbour and settlement on the island of Antigua in the Caribbean, in the extreme south of the island.
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Ferrol, Spain
Ferrol is a city in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, Spain.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Ferrol, Spain
Fifth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six "ratings" based on size and firepower. HMS Mediator (1782) and fifth-rate are fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Fifth-rate
Forecastle
The forecastle (contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
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Fourth-rate
In 1603 all English warships with a complement of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Fourth-rate
Francis Dundas
General Francis Dundas (c. 1759 – 15 January 1824) was a British general and acting governor of the Cape Colony between 1798 and 1803.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Francis Dundas
French frigate Preneuse (1794)
The Preneuse was a 44-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class, designed by Raymond-Antoine Haran and built at Rochefort.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and French frigate Preneuse (1794)
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars (Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802.
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Frigate
A frigate is a type of warship.
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Full-rigged ship
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged.
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George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
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Gun deck
The term gun deck used to refer to a deck aboard a ship that was primarily used for the mounting of cannon to be fired in broadsides.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Gun deck
Half-pay
Half-pay (h.p.) was a term used in the British Army and Royal Navy of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries to refer to the pay or allowance an officer received when in retirement or not in actual service.
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HMNB Portsmouth
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).
See HMS Mediator (1782) and HMNB Portsmouth
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
James Luttrell
James Luttrell (1751 – 23 December 1788) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1775 to 1788.
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Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite
Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'HermiteFirst name also written "Jean-Matthieu-Adrien", and family name also written "Lhermitte" (Coutances, Manche, 29 September 1766Levot, p. 316 — Plessis-Picquet, 28 August 1826Levot, p. 319) was a French sea captain and rear admiral, notable for his involvement in the Glorious First of June and his expedition into the Atlantic in 1805.
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John Knox Laughton
Sir John Knox Laughton (23 April 1830 – 14 September 1915) was a British naval historian and arguably the first to delineate the importance of the subject of Naval history as an independent field of study.
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John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton
Captain John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton (11 December 1739 – 19 March 1829), styled The Honourable John Luttrell between 1768 and 1787 and as The Honourable John Luttrell-Olmius between 1787 and 1829, was an Irish naval commander and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1785.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and John Luttrell-Olmius, 3rd Earl of Carhampton
John Moutray
John Moutray of Roscobie (c.1722 – 22 November 1785) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
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Keel
The keel is the bottom-most longitudinal structural element on a watercraft.
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Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
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La Désirade
La Désirade (Dézirad or Déziwad) is an island in the French West Indies, in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.
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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts, or more broadly the Acts of Trade and Navigation, were a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce with other countries and with its own colonies.
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Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (17 February 175416 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer, most notable for his explorations in Australia and the southern Pacific.
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Northam, Southampton
Northam is a suburb of Southampton in Hampshire.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England.
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Post-captain
Post-captain, post captain, or postcaptain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of captain in the Royal Navy.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Post-captain
Quarterdeck
The quarterdeck is a raised deck behind the main mast of a sailing ship.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Quarterdeck
Rear admiral (Royal Navy)
Rear admiral (RAdm) is a flag officer rank of the Royal Navy.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Rear admiral (Royal Navy)
Roebuck-class ship
The Roebuck-class ship was a class of twenty 44-gun sailing two-decker warships of the Royal Navy.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Roebuck-class ship
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
The Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 involved an unsuccessful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to regain lands lost to the Russian Empire in the course of the previous Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774).
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an admiral in the Royal Navy.
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Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.
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Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet
Admiral Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet (– 5 January 1812) was a Royal Navy officer.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet (30 December 1727 – 18 February 1800George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume V (Exeter, 1906)) was a British colonial governor and military officer.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet
Sister ship
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.
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Sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Sloop
St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
St.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
Table Bay
Table Bay (Afrikaans: Tafelbaai) is a natural bay on the Atlantic Ocean overlooked by Cape Town (founded 1652 by Van Riebeeck) and is at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, which stretches south to the Cape of Good Hope.
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Third-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Third-rate
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, peer, mercenary and politician.
See HMS Mediator (1782) and Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Luny
Thomas Luny (1759–1837), was an English artist who primarily painted seascapes and other marine-based works.
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Thomas Slade
Sir Thomas Slade (1703/4 – 1771) was an English naval architect best known for designing the Royal Navy warship HMS ''Victory'', which served as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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Treaty of Amiens
The Treaty of Amiens (la paix d'Amiens) temporarily ended hostilities between France, the Spanish Empire, and the United Kingdom at the end of the War of the Second Coalition.
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West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a town in southeast London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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See also
Storeships of the Royal Navy
- Aid-class storeship
- Anna (1739 ship)
- Dutch frigate Alliantie (1788)
- Grenville (1764 EIC ship)
- HMS Buffalo (1797)
- HMS Buffalo (1813)
- HMS Camel (1813)
- HMS Elephant (1776)
- HMS Etrusco (1794)
- HMS Gorgon (1785)
- HMS Greenwich (1777)
- HMS Guardian (1784)
- HMS Howe (1805)
- HMS Janus (1778)
- HMS Mediator (1782)
- HMS Porpoise (1798)
- HMS Porpoise (1804)
- HMS Prince (1854)
- HMS Woolwich (1785)
- Sunny South (clipper)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mediator_(1782)
Also known as HMS Camel (1788).
, Kingdom of Great Britain, La Désirade, Lisbon, Napoleonic Wars, Navigation Acts, Nicolas Baudin, Northam, Southampton, Plymouth, Post-captain, Quarterdeck, Rear admiral (Royal Navy), Roebuck-class ship, Royal Navy, Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, Schooner, Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet, Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet, Sister ship, Sloop, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, Table Bay, Third-rate, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Thomas Luny, Thomas Slade, Treaty of Amiens, West Indies, Woolwich.