Tonquin was a 290-ton American merchant ship initially operated by Fanning & Coles and later by the Pacific Fur Company (PFC), a subsidiary of the American...
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Tonquin may refer to: Tonquin (1807), an American merchant vessel destroyed on Vancouver Island in 1811 Tonquin (1845), a later American commercial vessel...
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Algésiras-class steam ship of the line, was renamed Borda in 1890 and used as a schoolship, replacing the ex-Valmy in that role. Tonquin (1873–1899), transport...
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bark, the Tonquin, owned by John Jacob Astor. The Tonquin was to sail to the Pacific Northwest to establish a fur trading post. The Tonquin left New York...
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ship Tonquin in 1807, sailed her around the world several times and sold her for $37,000 to John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company. Later the Tonquin...
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was planned as an additional supply ship for Astor's developing Pacific Fur Company (PFC). Along with the Tonquin, the Beaver was a critical part of Astor's...
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Adam and Noah Brown (section List of ships)
1833. Ships built by Adam and Noah Brown include: Frances (1804) Swift (1805) Trident (1805) Boneta (1806) Maria Theresa (1807) Pacific (1807) Tonquin (1807)...
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The list of ship launches in 1807 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1807. Winfield, Rif (2015). French warships in the age of sail...
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aboard a Pacific Fur Company ship, the Tonquin, on its voyage to the Falkland Islands. He held a pistol to the head of the ship's captain, Jonathan Thorn,...
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1760 – 28 September 1807). He later joined the Pacific Fur Company as a merchant apprentice, arriving at Fort Astoria on the Tonquin. After Astoria was...
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American Fort Astoria only two months after the departure of the supply ship Tonquin. Along the way, Thompson had set foot on and claimed for the British...
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Canton in China, and greatly benefited from it. The U.S. Embargo Act of 1807 disrupted Astor's import/export business because it closed off trade with...
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the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin. Before returning upriver and across the mountains, Thompson hired...
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HMS Saldanha (1809) (category 1809 ships)
frigate to be ordered to the renewed design. Saldanha was laid down in March 1807 and launched on 8 December 1809 with the following dimensions: 144 feet 8 inches...
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the trading ship Tonquin was blown up in Clayoquot Sound. Tla-o-qui-aht warriors had attacked the ship in revenge for an insult by the ship's captain. The...
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of the vessel and ran her ashore around Longitude 16½° in the Gulf of Tonquin on the coast of Cochinchina on 24 October. A survivor's account was that...
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HMS St George (1785) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
Saumarez versus Napoleon: The Baltic 1807–12. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-431-1. Media related to HMS St George (ship, 1785) at Wikimedia Commons Strandingsmuseum...
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Astor, the company men had previously sailed around Cape Horn on board Tonquin. During the War of 1812, the Pacific Northwest was a distant isolated region...
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purchased her in 1804 to use as a fifth-rate frigate, and renamed Duncan. In 1807 the Navy renamed her Dover. She was wrecked off Madras on 2 May 1811. Carron...
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10, p.56à9. Lloyd's List, №4059.. "Ship News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 15 February 1807. p. 2. Asiatic Journal and Monthly...
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August 2017. Ships on the Northwest Coast Archived 2010-05-25 at the Wayback Machine, John Robson At the Far Reaches of Empire, p. 144 Ships to Hawaii before...
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HMS Pomone (1805) (category 1805 ships)
British warships. On 27 September 1807 Pomone was in company with Révolutionnaire when she captured the Danish ship Resolution. On 27 March 1808 Pomone...
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23 – John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. September 8 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's...
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transporting enslaved people. After the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, Thames returned to trading with the West Indies. A French privateer captured...
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the Tonquin, one of Astor's ships trading on Vancouver Island, are massacred by Tla-o-qui-aht Indians after the captain insults a chief. The ship is scuttled...
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HMS Duchess of York (1801) (redirect from Duchess of York (1801 ship))
Duchess of York, Austin Forest, master, arrived at Port Jackson on 4 April 1807 from Bengal. She was primarily carrying merchandise, including an ample supply...
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Prince of Sweden, by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates. September 8 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor, with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's...
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HMS Guachapin (1800) (category Ship infoboxes without an image)
13 September 1806, Guachapin became a guardship at St. Johns, Antigua. In 1807 she was under Acting Lieutenant Uriah Goodwin. In 1810, William Fletcher...
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French in the waters of the island group. On the "Map of the coast of Tonquin and Cochinchina", made in 1747 by Pierre d'Hondt, the dangerous band of...
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John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company. September 8, 1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's...
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