HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for...
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name HMS Wager. Another was planned but later cancelled: HMS Wager (1739) was a 24-gun sixth rate purchased in 1739 and wrecked in 1741. HMS Wager (1744)...
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island was the location of the Wager Mutiny, which took place in October 1741 after the wreck of the British warship HMS Wager. The Guayaneco Archipelago...
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Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...
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wrecked in 1741 Wager Mutiny, mutiny that occurred after loss of HMS Wager in 1741 HMS Wager (R98), a W-class destroyer launched in 1943 The Wager (1998 film)...
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selling hardcover non-fiction books. The book concentrates on the story of HMS Wager, a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship, and the mutiny that took...
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in his career. First, he was in command of HMS Wager when it was wrecked in May 1741 on the shores of Wager Island in Chilean Patagonia. Second was his...
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Martín Olleta (section Rescue of HMS Wager survivors)
Patagonia. He is known for rescuing the survivors of from the wreck of HMS Wager in 1742. He was identified as chieftain by the British and referred to...
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under George Anson on his voyage around the world, though Byron's ship, HMS Wager, made it only to southern Chile, where it was wrecked. He returned to...
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was a British seaman, best known for leading survivors of the wreck of HMS Wager to safety. Bulkeley was the ship's gunner, not one of her commissioned...
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HMS Wager was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was sold to the Yugoslav Navy in 1956, renamed Pula, and...
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the story of two friends, Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow, who sail aboard HMS Wager as part of the voyage around the world led by Anson in 1740. Their ship...
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David Grann's 2023 non-fiction book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, the surviving crew of HMS Wager are shipwrecked on the Chilean coast...
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Severn: 853 tons, 50 guns, 300 men HMS Pearl: 600 tons, 40 guns, 250 men HMS Wager: 599 tons, 24 guns, 120 men HMS Tryal: 200 tons, 8 guns, 70 men Anna...
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the fifth-rate HMS Pearl and the fourth-rate HMS Severn, failed to round Cape Horn and returned home. Meanwhile, the sixth-rate HMS Wager was wrecked off...
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Anthony A. Wager (24 June 1932 – 23 December 1990) was an English actor and television writer. He is best known for portraying the role of the young Pip...
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south latitude. The year 1741 occurs the shipwreck of the British ship HMS Wager in the area of the Guayaneco Archipelago. Following the event Spain increased...
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only for the particular ship in which he served, but after the loss of HMS Wager in 1741 and the subsequent mutiny, the Royal Navy changed its policy and...
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(missile), a Soviet air-to-air missile French aircraft carrier Clemenceau HMS Wager (R98), a destroyer of the Royal Navy Renholdningsselskabet af 1898, a...
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(1649) Bishopsgate mutiny (1649) The Wager Mutiny – the main body of the crew of the British war ship HMS Wager mutinied against their Captain after she...
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when the Spaniards learned about the wreck of the British warship HMS Wager on Wager Island in western Patagonia. As a result of a corsair and pirate menace...
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X Y Z HMS Acasta (1912) HMS Acasta (H09) HMS Achates (1912) HMS Achates (H12) HMS Acorn (1910) MV Adelaide Star (1950) HMS Airedale (L07) HMS Alarm (1911)...
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HMS Teazer (R23) HMS Tenacious (R45) HMS Terpsichore (R33) USS Twining (DD-540) USS Uhlmann (DD-687) USS Wadleigh (DD-689) HMS Wager (R98) USS Waldron (DD-699)...
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to his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty. One of his ships, HMS Wager, was presumed lost in the storms round Cape Horn the survivors would later...
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Penas in 1741, a storm caught the British ship, HMS Wager, causing it to wreck on (the eventual) Wager Island, on the Guayaneco Archipelago. Some of the...
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John Bulkeley may refer to: John Bulkeley (Royal Navy), see HMS Wager (1739) John Bulkeley (MP), English MP John D. Bulkeley, US Admiral This disambiguation...
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post-captain and given command of the frigate HMS Wager. Murray transferred to command the larger frigate HMS Pearl on 19 February of the next year after...
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in 1581. In 1742, during the War of Jenkins' Ear, eight survivors of HMS Wager, part of Admiral Anson expedition and led by midshipman Isaac Morris,...
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1743 HMS Sheerness 1743 HMS Wager 1744 HMS Shoreham 1744 HMS Bridgewater 1744 HMS Glasgow 1745 HMS Triton 1745 HMS Mercury 1745 HMS Surprise 1746 HMS Siren...
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isthmus of Ofqui. In 1741, the British warship HMS Wager ran aground along the coast of (future) Wager Island, in the southeastern region of the Gulf...
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