Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov (24 February 1745 – 14 October 1817) was a Russian naval commander and admiral. He is notable for winning every engagement he participated in as the admiral of the Russian fleet, and is regarded as one of the most capable naval commanders of Russia of all time. Until the a...

SENYAVIN D.N. - Russian naval commander (1863) Senyavin D. N.Dmitry Nickolaevich Senyavian was born in a noble family on August,6, 1763 in Konlevo village of the Kaluga gubernia (province).After finishing the Naval Corps in 1777 he served on the ships of the Baltic Navy in the rank of naval cadet. I...

Count Nikolai Semenovich Mordvinov ( 1 [12] May 1755 [2] , St. Petersburg - 30 March [ 11 April ] 1845 [3] , ibid.) - Russian naval and statesman, son of Admiral S. I. Mordvinova , one of the organizers of the Black Sea Fleet , chairman of the Black Sea Admiralty Board (1792–1799), first naval minis...

HMS Tremendous (His Majesty's Ship Tremendous) is a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line . The only Royal Navy ship named HMS Tremendous . Third ship of the Ganges class . Laid down in August 1782 . Launched on 30 October 1784 at Barnard's private shipyard in Deptford . It belonged to the so-called “r...

Tigre (1793) was a 74-gun French Temeraire -class battleship . She was launched on May 8, 1793 at the shipyard in Brest . The ship was commissioned in August 1793 under the command of Captain Pierre Van Stabel. In November of the same year, Van Stabel was promoted to rear admiral, raised his flag on...

The stamp image is based on a painting by artist Antoine Roux: “Themis with Santa Ana in tow in the aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar.” On the stamp, “Themis” is mistakenly called “Santa Ana” Santa Ana was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line of the Spanish Navy, built to plans drawn by engine...

1.Portrait of Admiral Samuil Grei. 2. Chesme battle in the night of June 25-26, 1770, by Ivan Aivazovsky. Samuel Greig -Vice-Admiral was a Scottish-born Russian admiral who distinguished himself in the Battle of Chesma (1770) and the Battle of Hogland (1788). His son Alexey Greig also made a spectac...

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HMS Melampus was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate that served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She captured numerous prizes before the British sold her to the Dutch navy in 1815. With the Dutch she participated in a major action at Algiers, and then in a number of colonial punitiv...

Battle on the Revel roadstead On May 13, 1790, the Battle of Revel took place, in which Russian sailors under the command of Admiral Chichagov defeated the superior forces of the Swedish fleet On May 13, 1790, the Battle of Revel took place, in which Russian sailors under the command of Admiral Chic...

February 28 (March 11), 1726 in a poor noble family near Kostroma was born Vasiliy Yakovlevich Chichagov, a prominent Russian navigator and admiral (1782). Chichagov was educated at home, and later graduated from the Naval School in Moscow. He began his service as a midshipman, had served in all the...

François-Joseph-Paul, count de Grasse, (born September 13, 1722, Le Bar, France—died January 11, 1788, Paris), French naval commander who engaged British forces during the American Revolution (1775–83). De Grasse took service in 1734 on the galleys of the Knights of Malta, and in 1740 he entered the...

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands in the American War of Independence, particularly his victory over the French at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782. (See also: viewtopic.php?f=2&a...

Admiral Sir George Pocock or Pococke, KB (6 March 1706 – 3 April 1792) was a British officer of the Royal Navy. Pocock was born in Thames Ditton in Surrey, the son of Thomas Pocock, a chaplain in the Royal Navy. His great grandfather was Rev. Dr. Laurence Pocock, Rector of Brightwalton in Berkshire ...