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Wife of Captain David Larkin Ross aboard the "Reform" enroute to Buenos Aires, successfully assumed command of the ship upon David's death. Her brief command made her one of America's first female ship captains. Canada: 1849 1940 Rostron, Arthur. British captain for the Cunard Line and master of RMS Carpathia during her rescue RMS Titanic ...
Pages in category "Scottish sailors" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. ... Richard Brown (captain) Francis Buchanan-Hamilton; C. John ...
William Douglas (died 1791) was a Scottish ship captain and an oceanographer maritime fur trader during the late 18th century. He worked with the British trader and Captain John Meares, commanding the ship Iphigenia Nubiana. He was involved in the Nootka Crisis of 1789, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of war.
The Scottish Red Ensign, flown by ships of the Royal Scots Navy James I was responsible for developing the shipping interests of the country, establishing a shipbuilding yard at Leith . His successor, James II , developed the use of gunpowder and artillery in Scotland and, in consequence, ships were built with hulls thick enough to resist ...
Royal Marine Captain James Malcolm fought at sea under the command of Vice Admiral Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet in the Battle of San Domingo. In the course of the fighting, in which Royal Marines played an important role, all of the enemy's ships of the line were either captured or destroyed.
Alexander Hamilton (before 1688 – after 1733) was a Scottish sea captain, privateer and merchant. He later became commander of the Bombay Marine , in charge of suppressing piracy . Biography
Scottish naval efforts would again rely on privateering captains and hired merchantmen during the minority of James V. [18] In the Habsburg-Valois war of 1521–26, in which England and Scotland became involved on respective sides, the Scots had six men-of-war active attacking English and Imperial shipping and they blockaded the Humber in 1523 ...
The Scottish regiments of the British army (Oliver and Boyd, 1942) Spiers, Edward M. and Jeremy A. Crang. A Military History of Scotland (2014) Spiers, Edward M. The Scottish Soldier and Empire, 1854–1902 (Edinburgh University Press, 2006). Watt, Patrick. 2019. " Manpower, Myth and Memory: Analysing Scotland's Military Contribution to the ...