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On 12 January 1808 Amphitrite, Colburn, master, was driven onshore at Ryde, but was gotten off without damage. [3] On 21 October 1808 as Amphitrite was sailing from Halifax to Bedec, New Brunswick, and London, she was driven on shore near Pictou, Nova Scotia. She was gotten off on 6 November, but then grounded again near Bedec.
Amphitrite (1791 ship) was launched at Scarborough. In 1793–1794 she served the British Royal Navy as a hired armed vessel. She was last listed in 1797. Amphitrite (1794 ship) was launched at Hamburg. She traded primarily between London and Hambro. A French privateer captured her in 1798. Amphitrite (1796 ship) was
HMS Amphitrite (1799) was a 40-gun fifth rate captured from the Dutch in 1799. She was renamed Imperieuse in 1801 and was broken up in 1805. HMS Amfitrite (1804) was a 38-gun fifth rate captured by HMS Donegal from the Spanish in 1804. She was renamed Blanche in 1805 and was wrecked in 1807. HMS Amphitrite (1816) was a fifth rate launched in ...
HMS Amphitrite was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy.She served during the American Revolution primarily in the economic war. On the one hand she protected the trade by capturing or assisting at the capture of a number of privateers, some of which the Royal Navy then took into service.
Pictures taken of the wreck by navy divers last year show the wreck is still perfectly preserved, despite lying on the ocean’s floor for more than three centuries.
She was the only ship in the Navy to bear this specific name, though a number of other ships used the conventional English spelling and were named HMS Amphitrite. Her most notable feat was her capture of Guerriere in 1806. Blanche was wrecked in 1807.
Royal Navy experts said Friday that an analysis of video, photos and scans confirmed the ship's identity. On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS ...
The tragic crash happened on Jan. 29 near Reagan National Airport in Virginia. Surveillance cameras caught the disaster’s fiery orange explosion, which engulfed the sky just seconds after the ...