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Perseverance (1797 ship), the Glossary

Index Perseverance (1797 ship)

Perseverance was launched in Virginia in 1797 and was registered in Great Britain in 1799.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 13 relations: £sd, Builder's Old Measurement, Cape Horn, Carronade, French frigate Néréide (1779), Lloyd's List, Lloyd's Register, Piracy, Royal Navy, Santa María Island, Chile, Tubul River, Vicente Benavides, Whaler.

  2. Acts of piracy
  3. Maritime incidents in March 1821
  4. Maritime incidents in October 1821
  5. Piracy in the Pacific Ocean
  6. Ships attacked and captured by pirates

£sd

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 Horn

Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

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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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French frigate Néréide (1779)

Néréide was a, 32-gun, copper-hulled frigate of the French Navy.

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Lloyd's List

Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734.

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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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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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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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Santa María Island, Chile

Santa María Island is a sparsely inhabited island located in the Bay of Arauco off the western coast of the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region of Chile.

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Tubul River

Tubul River is a river of the Bío Bío Region of Chile.

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Vicente Benavides

Vicente Benavides Llanos (Quirihue, 1777 – Santiago, Chile, February 23, 1822) was a Chilean soldier who fought in the Chilean War of Independence. Perseverance (1797 ship) and Vicente Benavides are Piracy in the Pacific Ocean.

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Whaler

A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. Perseverance (1797 ship) and whaler are whaling ships.

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See also

Acts of piracy

Maritime incidents in March 1821

Maritime incidents in October 1821

Piracy in the Pacific Ocean

Ships attacked and captured by pirates

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(1797_ship)