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Maxwell was launched at Boston in 1798. She came into British hands in 1804 as a West Indiaman, trading between Liverpool and Barbados. She wrecked in...

rendering engine software Maxwell (1804 ship), an American-built British merchant ship Maxwell Award, presented by the Maxwell Football Club for the American...

William Pitt was a three-decker sailing ship, built in Liverpool in 1803. She made three complete voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), and...

further success in the Mediterranean, Maxwell was given increasingly important commissions and, despite the loss of his ship HMS Daedalus off Ceylon in 1813...

Devonshire was launched in 1804 as an East Indiaman. She made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), and was wrecked on her fifth while...

which was held by a Dutch garrison, was captured on 5 May 1804 by a British squadron of 31 ships carrying around 2,000 soldiers under the command of Samuel...

Sailing ship tactics were the naval tactics employed by sailing ships in contrast to galley tactics employed by oared vessels. This article focuses on...

Navy, built by Samuel & Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe and was launched in 1804. She was built of fir, which made for more rapid construction at the expense...

The EIC required that Calcutta be built on the Thames. Captain William Maxwell acquired a letter of marque on 1 May 1798. He sailed from Portsmouth on...

of Historic Places. Michel Brindamour dit Ménard was born on December 5, 1804, at La Prairie, Quebec, Canada, to Michel Brindamour dit Ménard and Marguerite...

HMS Alceste was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as Minerve, an Armide-class frigate. In the spring of 1806, prior to her capture, she engaged...

– No Flint Grey and the Stone Ship (1925) Old and Sold Antiques Digest "No. 15669". The London Gazette. 24 January 1804. p. 111. Boswall (1833), p. 210...

Farmer (1842–1903), American author, women's rights activist Lydia Mary Fay (1804–1878), American missionary, educator, writer, and translator Lydia Rodríguez...

and Mercury. It was a general cry in both ships: “Only look how nobly the brig behaves”’ ([Sir] Murray Maxwell to the secretary of the admiralty, Gazette...

fictional Dutch ship of the line Waakzaamheid, and a disastrous collision with an iceberg. In the sixth book, The Fortune of War, the ship is left at a British...

Captains Perkins and Maxwell she also took a considerable number of prizes. After the Royal Navy sold her in 1810 she served as a whaling ship in the South Seas...

including: Samuel Lines (1778–1863) and his sons Samuel Rostill Lines (1804–1833) Frederick Thomas Lines (1808–1898) Henry Harris Lines (1800 or 1801–1889)...

Clerk Maxwell presented to the Royal Society a set of equations that described this relationship between electricity and magnetism. Maxwell's equations...

control speed of ship propellers and rudders. However, those governors were sluggish and oscillated about the set point. James Clerk Maxwell wrote a paper...

Harrier (1804)". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2022. Hepper (1994), p. 128. Clayton, Jane M (2014). Ships employed...