Английская Википедия:HMS Serpent (1794)

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Шаблон:Other ships Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English

Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristics

HMS Serpent was a former Dutch hoy that the British Admiralty purchased in 1794 for service with the Royal Navy. She was paid off in 1796 and was sold around 1802.

Service

The Admiralty had Serpent fitted out between April 1794 and April 1795 at Woolwich, commissioning her in April 1794 under Lieutenant John Lundin.Шаблон:Sfnp

Smith assigned all his gunvessels to the defence of the Îles Saint-Marcouf, which are some three and a half miles from the French coast and about nine miles south-east of Cape La Hogue, and which consist of two islands, West and East. The gunvessels and the shore batteries and redoubts the British erected on the islands were initially under the overall command of Lieutenant Henry Hicks of Шаблон:HMS, and then under Lieutenant Charles Papps Price in Шаблон:HMS.Шаблон:Sfnp

On 7 September the French mounted an attack with 17 large boats filled with men. They retreated in confusion after coming under fire from the redoubts the British had erected on East Island and from the gunvessels,[1] among them the hoys Badger, Шаблон:HMS and Hawke, and the Шаблон:Sclass Шаблон:HMS. Subsequently, material from Serpent was used to build a battery.[2]

Fate

Serpent was paid off in 1796.Шаблон:Sfnp

On 4 July 1802 orders were received at Portsmouth for the hired armed cutter Шаблон:Ship, among a number of other vessels including Bulldog and Serpent, to be put in commission.[3] The Serpent in question was probably this Serpent, Шаблон:HMS being already in service on the Cork station.Шаблон:Sfnp Bulldog may have been Шаблон:HMS, which had been a powder hulk in Portsmouth since her recapture from the French in 1801, and which was broken up in 1829.Шаблон:Sfnp Neither the hoy Serpent nor Bulldog were in fact recommissioned.

The hoy Serpent was sold around 1802.Шаблон:Sfnp

Citations

Шаблон:Reflist

References

  • Barrow, John (1848) The life and correspondence of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith. (Bentley).
  • Laws, Lt. Col. M.E.S. "The Defence of St. Marcouf", Journal of the Royal Artillery, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 298–307.
  • Шаблон:Cite book
Партнерские ресурсы
Криптовалюты
Магазины
Хостинг
Разное

  1. ↑ Barrow (1848), Vol. 1, p.175.
  2. ↑ Barrow (1848), p. 176.
  3. ↑ Naval Chronicle, Vol. 8, p.84.
Источник — http://wikihandbk.com/ruwiki/index.php?title=Английская_Википедия:HMS_Serpent_(1794)&oldid=15095663