HMS Plumper (1848), the Glossary
HMS Plumper was part of the 1847 programme, she was ordered on 25 April as a steam schooner from Woolwich Dockyard with the name Pincher.[1]
Table of Contents
43 relations: Anthony Hoskins, Barque, British North America, Brockton Point, Builder's Old Measurement, Burrard Inlet, Campbell River, British Columbia, Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer), Coal Harbour, Cowes, Daniel Pender, Digby, Nova Scotia, Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard, Francis Brockton, Fraser River, Geoffrey Hornby, George Henry Richards, Gulf Islands, HMS Hecate (1839), HMS Satellite (1855), James Douglas (governor), Keats Island (British Columbia), Mayne Island, Mudge Island, Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Pender Island, Pig War (1859), Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park, Plumper Sound, Richard Mayne (explorer), Royal Marines, Samuel Campbell (doctor), San Juan Island, Screw sloop, Sidney, British Columbia, Sloop-of-war, Stanley Park, The Illustrated London News, The London Gazette, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, West Africa Squadron.
- 1848 ships
Anthony Hoskins
Admiral Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins, (1 September 1828 – 21 June 1901) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft.
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British North America
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards.
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Brockton Point
Brockton Point is a headland off the Downtown Peninsula of Vancouver, on the north side of Coal Harbour.
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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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Burrard Inlet
Burrard Inlet (səl̓ilw̓ət) is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.
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Campbell River, British Columbia
Campbell River is a city in British Columbia, Canada, on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies along the 50th parallel north along the important Inside Passage shipping route.
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Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Charles John Napier (6 March 1786Priscilla Napier (1995), who is not elsewhere free from error, gives the birth year as 1787 (p. 1, and book title), but provides no evidence. All other authorities agree on 1786. – 6 November 1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars, Syrian War and the Crimean War, and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars.
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Coal Harbour
Coal Harbour is a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula and the Brockton Point of Stanley Park.
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Cowes
Cowes is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight.
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Daniel Pender
Daniel Pender was a Royal Navy Staff Commander, later captain, who surveyed the Coast of British Columbia aboard, and from 1857 to 1870.
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Digby, Nova Scotia
Digby is an incorporated town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard
Esquimalt Royal Naval Dockyard was a major British Royal Navy yard on Canada's Pacific coast from 1842 to 1905, subsequently operated by the Canadian government as HMC Dockyard Esquimalt, now part of CFB Esquimalt, to the present day.
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Francis Brockton
Francis Brockton was the ship's engineer of HMS ''Plumper'' under Captain Henry Richards when, in 1859, Brockton found a vein of coal in the Vancouver area.
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Fraser River
The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.
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Geoffrey Hornby
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby GCB (10 February 1825 – 3 March 1895) was a Royal Navy officer.
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George Henry Richards
Sir George Henry Richards (13 January 182014 November 1896) was Hydrographer of the Royal Navy from 1863 to 1874.
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Gulf Islands
The Gulf Islands is a group of islands in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia.
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HMS Hecate (1839)
HMS Hecate was a 4-gun ''Hydra''-class paddle sloop launched on 30 March 1839 from the Chatham Dockyard.
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HMS Satellite (1855)
HMS Satellite was a wooden screw corvette launched on 26 September 1855 at Devonport for the Royal Navy.
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James Douglas (governor)
Sir James Douglas, (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877) was a Canadian fur trader and politician who became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia.
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Keats Island (British Columbia)
Keats Island is an inhabited island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Mayne Island
Mayne Island is a island in the southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia.
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Mudge Island
Mudge Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia, in British Columbia (BC), Canada.
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Pender Harbour, British Columbia
Pender Harbour (ḵalpilin in ''she shashishalhem'') is a harbour on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, on the east side of Malaspina Strait.
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Pender Island
Pender Island (Saanich: st̕ey̕əs) is one of the Southern Gulf Islands located in the Salish Sea, British Columbia, Canada.
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Pig War (1859)
The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, between Vancouver Island (present-day Canada) and the Washington Territory (present-day State of Washington). HMS Plumper (1848) and Pig War (1859) are pre-Confederation British Columbia.
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Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park
Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
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Plumper Sound
Plumper Sound is a sound in the Southern Gulf Islands region of British Columbia, Canada, located between Saturna Island (E) and North and South Pender Islands.
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Richard Mayne (explorer)
Rear-Admiral Richard Charles Mayne (7 July 1835 – 29 May 1892) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer, who in later life became a Conservative politician.
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Royal Marines
The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).
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Samuel Campbell (doctor)
Samuel Campbell was ship's surgeon of HMS ''Plumper'' from 1857 to 1861.
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San Juan Island
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States.
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Screw sloop
A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war.
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Sidney, British Columbia
Sidney is a town located at the northern end of the Saanich Peninsula, on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia.
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Sloop-of-war
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns.
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Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a public park in British Columbia, Canada, that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay.
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The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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The London Gazette
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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West Africa Squadron
The West Africa Squadron, also known as the Preventative Squadron, was a squadron of the British Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa.
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See also
1848 ships
- Caleb Grimshaw
- Charlotte Jane
- Chilean ship Cazador
- Ernst August (ship)
- French ship Breslaw (1848)
- French ship Duguesclin (1848)
- French ship Henri IV
- Friend (pilot boat)
- HMS Aboukir (1848)
- HMS Arrogant (1848)
- HMS Basilisk (1848)
- HMS Colossus (1848)
- HMS Enterprise (1848)
- HMS Investigator (1848)
- HMS Jumna (1848)
- HMS Leander (1848)
- HMS Mars (1848)
- HMS Meeanee (1848)
- HMS Phaeton (1848)
- HMS Plumper (1848)
- HMS Reynard (1848)
- HMS Vivid (1848)
- Lalla Rookh (1848 ship)
- List of ship launches in 1848
- Mary and Catherine
- Memnon (clipper)
- Meridian (shipwreck)
- Ottoman frigate Feyzâ-i Bahrî
- PS Cambria (1848)
- PS Keystone State
- Roman Emperor (ship)
- SS California (1848)
- SS G. P. Griffith
- SS Indiana (1848)
- SS Satellite
- Sea Witch (1848 barque)
- Senator (1848 ship)
- USS Baltimore (1861)
- USS Black Hawk (1848)
- USS Charles Phelps
- USS Saranac (1848)
- USS St. Lawrence
- USS Vermont (1848)
- Yankee (pilot boat)