HMS Royal Albert (1854), the Glossary
HMS Royal Albert was a 121 gun three-decker ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1854 at Woolwich Dockyard.[1]
Table of Contents
23 relations: Builder's Old Measurement, Channel Fleet, Charles Fremantle, Crimea, Crimean War, Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, Edward Rice (Royal Navy officer), Francis Egerton (Royal Navy officer), Full-rigged ship, Kea, Kingdom of Greece, Malta, Mediterranean Fleet, Oswald Walters Brierly, Robert Fanshawe Stopford, Royal Navy, Sheerness, Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton, Thomas Sabine Pasley, Three-decker, William Robert Mends, Woolwich Dockyard, 68-pounder gun.
- Maritime incidents in December 1855
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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Channel Fleet
The Channel Fleet and originally known as the Channel Squadron was the Royal Navy formation of warships that defended the waters of the English Channel from 1854 to 1909 and 1914 to 1915.
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Charles Fremantle
Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB (1 June 1800 – 25 May 1869) was a British Royal Navy officer.
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Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.
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Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, (21 November 179023 November 1858) was an eminent British Admiral of the Royal Navy, and diplomat, who ensured Britain's victory in the Crimean War, during which he was Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, by his contribution at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) with both the Royal Navy and the British Army.
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Edward Rice (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Edward Bridges Rice, (30 October 1819 – 30 October 1902) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.
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Francis Egerton (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Francis Egerton (15 September 1824 – 15 December 1895), known as Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British naval commander and politician from the Egerton family.
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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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Kea
The kea (Nestor notabilis) is a species of large parrot in the family Nestoridae that is endemic to the forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Kingdom of Greece
The Kingdom of Greece (Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος) was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic.
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Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Mediterranean Fleet
The British Mediterranean Fleet, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was a formation of the Royal Navy.
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Oswald Walters Brierly
Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (19 May 1817 – 14 December 1894), was an English marine painter from an old Cheshire family and he was born at Chester.
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Robert Fanshawe Stopford
Admiral Robert Fanshawe Stopford (19 December 1811 – 4 January 1891) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron.
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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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Sheerness
Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.
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Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton
Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton (1820–1891) was a 19th-century English marine lithographer, draftsman, watercolourist, painter, and etcher.
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Thomas Sabine Pasley
Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, 2nd Baronet, (26 December 1804 – 13 February 1884) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy during the nineteenth century who never saw action but served across the globe in numerous positions.
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Three-decker
A three-decker was a sailing warship which carried her principal carriage-mounted guns on three fully armed decks.
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William Robert Mends
Sir William Robert Mends, (27 February 1812 – 26 June 1897), was a British admiral of the Royal Navy, eldest son of Admiral William Bowen Mends and nephew of Captain Robert Mends.
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Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich in north-west Kent, where many ships were built from the early 16th century until the late 19th century. William Camden called it 'the Mother Dock of all England'. HMS Royal Albert (1854) and Woolwich Dockyard are ships built in Woolwich.
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68-pounder gun
The 68-pounder cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century.
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See also
Maritime incidents in December 1855
- HMS Royal Albert (1854)
- List of shipwrecks in December 1855
- Marco Polo (1851 ship)
- PS Keystone State
- Schomberg (1855)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Royal_Albert_(1854)
Also known as HMS Royal Albert.