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JAMES TRASK (1809) & ANN DENLEY (1816) IMAGES
James Trask - Baptism 3rd of September 1809 ~ born 17th August.
Marriage - James Trask (Private in the Royal Marines) to Ann Denley.
Note how they have both marked the page as neither could read or write.
A Private Of The Royal Marines Light Infantry, 1865.
The background shows the Main Gate of Forton Barracks, Gosport, first occupied by the "Portsmouth Division" in 1855.
The Royal Marine Artillery, by P. Smkin, published by Goodinge & Wilson Ltd.
When the Artillery Companies were formed in 1804, one company served with each Dvsion, in 1862 the Royal Marine Artillery became a seperate Division & in 1865 moved into newly built barracks at Eastney, Southsea.
HMS Dublin. (James Trask was on her circa 1835)
'Armada'/'Conquestadore'/'Vangeur' class (1806). Includes HMS Dublin. Contemporary copy of a plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for :~
'Conquestadore' (1810), 'Armada' (1810), 'Vigo' (1810), 'Cressey' (1810), 'La Hogue' (1811), 'Vindictive' (1813), 'Poictiers' (1809), 'Vengeur' (1810), 'Edinburgh' (1811), 'Dublin' (1812), 'Duncan' (1811), 'Indus' (1812), 'Rodney' (1809), 'Cornwall' (1812), 'Redoutable' (1815), 'Anson' (1812), 'Agincourt' (1817), 'Ajax' (1809), 'America' (1810), 'Barham' (1811), 'Benbow' (1813), 'Berwick' (1809), 'Blenheim' (1813), 'Clarence' (1812), 'Defence' (1815), 'Devonshire' (1812), 'Egmont' (1810), 'Hercules' (1815), 'Medway' (1812), 'Pembroke' (1812), 'Pitt' (1816), 'Russell' (1822), 'Scarborough' (1812), 'Stirling Castle' (1811), 'Wellington' (1816), 'Mulgrave' (1812), 'Gloucester' (1812).
All 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers. The plan includes alterations for a rounded bow and circular stern.
HMS Dublin pictured later in life in Devonport.
HMS Hibernia
HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only ship built to her draught, designed by Sir John Henslow.
On 11 January 1806, Hibernia capsized in the "Wembury River" — probably a reference to the River Yealm off Wembury, Devon. There was a loss of 19 of her crew. She was later refloated, repaired and returned to service.
Between 1807 and 1808, Hibernia, under the command of Sir William Sidney Smith, led the British escort of the Portuguese Royal Family during the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil. She became the flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet from 1816 until 1855, based at Malta and stationed in the Grand Harbour. She remained in this role until she was sold in 1902.
After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, HMS Hibernia was used in the service of the British Empire in other ways, such as to transport convicts to the colony of New South Wales. In 1818–1819, for example, the ship carried 160 male convicts to Sydney from Portsmouth sailing on 20 November and arriving 18 June. Also on board as passengers were the first Minister of St James' Church, Sydney, Richard Hill and his wife.
The ten-day court-martial of the surviving officers and crewmen of the battleship HMS Victoria for the loss of their ship in a 22 June 1893 collision with the battleship HMS Camperdown was held on Hibernia's deck. The proceedings began on 17 July 1893.
Hibernia was sold in 1902 and broken up. Her timber ended up being used to fire bakeries in Malta, leading to an outbreak of lead poisoning on the island. Her figurehead is now displayed at the Malta Maritime Museum, which is housed in the former Royal Naval Bakery building in Birgu, Malta.
Below: The Hibernia, shown starboard-bow, sailing on tempestuous waters and rolling waves. In the distance, on her right, is a three-masted ship (depicted in port-bow view) near a mountainous coast. An indistinguishable steamer features in the left background.
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff - https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/140709.html
HMS Prince Regent
She was a 120-gun first rate three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 17th July 1815 and then launched on 12 April 1823 at Chatham . She was later converted to a screw propeller in 1861. She took part in the first Baltic campaign in 1854.
HMS Prince Regent under easy sail, 1850.
(Repro ID: PU9029 (c) National Maritime Museum)
HMS Prince Regent under full sail in a following wind, Nov 17 1850
(Repro ID: PU9019 (c) National Maritime Museum)
Prince Regent at the Spithead Fleet Review on 15 July 1853. Prince Regent is the large ship in the left of the image.
Note the HMS Duke of Wellington is the large ship on the right.
(Edward Duncan - The Illustrated London News)
HMS Barracouta
HMS Barracouta was the last paddle sloop built for the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and launched in 1851. She served in the Pacific theatre of the Crimean War, in the Second Opium War and in the Anglo-Ashanti wars. She paid off for the last time in 1877 and was broken up in 1881.
Design and construction :
Barracouta was designed as a second-class paddle sloop and ordered from Pembroke Dockyard on 25 April 1847. She was armed with two 10-inch (84 cwt)pivot guns and four 32-pounder (25 cwt) guns. Her two-cylinder direct-acting steam engine was provided by Miller, Ravenhill & Salkeld at a cost of £18,228, and produced 300 nominal horsepower, or 881 indicated horsepower (657 kW).
Her armament was changed in 1856, when one of the 10-inch guns was replaced by a 68-pounder (95 cwt) gun, and the 25 cwt 32-pounders were replaced with 42 cwt versions. In 1862 the 68-pounder was replaced by an Armstrong 110-pounder (82 cwt) breech-loading rifle.
Her keel was laid in May 1849 and she was launched on 31 March 1851.Her total cost was £50,042 and was the only ship ever built to the design, as well as being the last paddle sloop built for the Royal Navy. She was provided with a barque rig.
Service:
Barracouta was commissioned on 30 July 1853 At 9 p.m. that day, she was in collision with the brig Duff off the north Kent coast. She was ordered to join the East Indies and China Station in 1854.
China station:
From September to mid-October 1854, Barracouta was part of a squadron of four ships led by vice admiral Sir James Stirling. With the start of the Crimean War, Stirling was anxious to prevent Russian ships from sheltering in Japanese ports and menacing allied shipping and led the squadron to Nagasaki where he concluded the Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty with representatives of the Tokugawa shogunate. Later during the Crimean War she participated in the siege of Petropavlovsk.
She also participated during the Second Opium War in 1856 before returning to England and being paid off in 1857.
North America station:
Barracouta was sent to North America and West Indies Station in 1860 until 1864, before being paid off and then returning to the North America and West Indies Station in 1866. She returned to England in 1870 and was paid off and was used as a tender at the Portsmouth Dockyard.
West Africa:
She served in West Africa, as part of the Cape of Good Hope Station in 1873, and participated in the Anglo-Ashanti wars. On 28 April, she towed the Italian barque Vittorio in to Gibraltar. The barque had run aground at La Atunara, Spain and had been abandoned in a waterlogged condition.
Australia station:
After being refitted in England, Barracouta commenced service on the Australia Station in August 1874. She took part in the Samoan operations in 1876. She left the Australia Station in July 1876 and returned to England and was paid off at the Chatham Dockyard in 1877.
She was broken up at Chatham in December 1881.
*Information care of Wikipedia.
Barracouta and Calcutta's Pinnace engaging mandarin junks and the French Folly Fort in the Canton River
BRISBANE, QLD. C.1875. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE WOODEN PADDLE SLOOP HMS BARRACOUTA AT ANCHOR IN THE BRISBANE RIVER. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
*Care of Australian War Memorial (awm.gov.au)
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