• Thumbnail for Edward Riou
    Edward Riou FRS (20 November 1762 – 2 April 1801) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary Wars under several of the...
    27 KB (3,360 words) - 23:14, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Guardian (1784)
    a store and convict transport to Australia, under Lieutenant Edward Riou. In 1789 Riou sailed Guardian, loaded with provisions, animals, convicts and...
    16 KB (1,921 words) - 02:56, 15 June 2024
  • Riou is a common family name from Brittany, in France: Riou may refer to: People Edward Riou (1762–1801), British naval officer Édouard Riou (1833–1900)...
    1 KB (200 words) - 17:00, 23 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Death of James Cook
    David Nelson Omai Hugh Palliser Sydney Parkinson Nathaniel Portlock Edward Riou Henry Roberts David Samwell Daniel Solander Herman Spöring William Taylor...
    21 KB (2,172 words) - 02:33, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
    Danish line from the south, and a force of frigates, commanded by Captain Edward Riou of HMS Amazon, would attack the northern end of the line. Troops would...
    39 KB (4,585 words) - 21:30, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Quilliam
    Quilliam's gallantry and calmness under fire following the death of Captain Edward Riou and all the senior officers of the Amazon, quickly came to the attention...
    13 KB (1,477 words) - 09:35, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Third voyage of James Cook
    Nathaniel Portlock served as master's mate on Discovery and later Resolution Edward Riou was a midshipman on Discovery and later Resolution Henry Roberts served...
    30 KB (3,713 words) - 18:23, 11 September 2024
  • Corps, and his wife Elizabeth, on Scarborough. Macarthur's eldest son, Edward Macarthur, who accompanied his parents on the Neptune and Scarborough, is...
    12 KB (1,422 words) - 16:47, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tobias Furneaux
    David Nelson Omai Hugh Palliser Sydney Parkinson Nathaniel Portlock Edward Riou Henry Roberts David Samwell Daniel Solander Herman Spöring William Taylor...
    8 KB (915 words) - 20:15, 31 December 2023
  • iceberg, on an actual event involving HMS Guardian and her commander Edward Riou in 1789. The novel uses Lieutenant James Grant as the model for the fictional...
    25 KB (3,583 words) - 01:29, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Blanche (1800)
    was part of a flotilla of five frigates under the command of Captain Edward Riou that were to act as a manoeuvrable reserve force. After beginning the...
    27 KB (3,322 words) - 09:47, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Riou
    HMS Riou (K557) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as a United States Navy...
    6 KB (229 words) - 16:08, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Daniel Gardner
    Portrait of Midshipman Edward Riou, 1776 by Daniel Gardner. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney....
    25 KB (2,920 words) - 13:50, 22 May 2024
  • Returned to US Navy 25 October 1945, sold for scrap, 7 May 1946 Riou K557 DE-92 Edward Riou 4 August 1943 23 October 1943 14 December 1943 Returned to US...
    28 KB (816 words) - 04:05, 14 July 2024
  • consequence as it turned out. The Guardian under the command of Lieutenant Edward Riou set sail from Spithead on 8 September 1789, and had an uneventful voyage...
    5 KB (594 words) - 10:08, 9 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford
    actuality, some years later. Pitt was on HMS Guardian, under Captain Edward Riou in 1789–90 when Guardian struck an iceberg near the Cape of Good Hope;...
    15 KB (1,899 words) - 08:20, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Amazon (1799)
    role in the Battle of Copenhagen under Edward Riou, who commanded the frigate squadron during the attack. After Riou was killed during the battle, command...
    24 KB (2,682 words) - 08:10, 8 June 2024
  • (from other smaller ships) who were under the direct command of Captains Edward Riou and Charles Nugent. Only the smaller Zebra, commanded by Robert Faulknor...
    7 KB (772 words) - 18:07, 12 May 2024
  • David Nelson Omai Hugh Palliser Sydney Parkinson Nathaniel Portlock Edward Riou Henry Roberts David Samwell Daniel Solander Herman Spöring William Taylor...
    4 KB (149 words) - 15:32, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Smith (gardener)
    An 1809 artist's impression of storeship HMS Guardian under the command of Captain Edward Riou striking an iceberg on the way to New Holland...
    2 KB (212 words) - 08:40, 27 September 2023
  • Paul's, is Rossi's monument to Captain James Robert Mosse and Captain Edward Riou. In 1809 Rossi worked with John Flaxman on two friezes for the facade...
    17 KB (1,884 words) - 06:33, 20 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Samuel Sutton
    Nelson appointed Sutton to command the 38-gun HMS Amazon, whose captain, Edward Riou, had been killed in the battle. Sutton remained serving in the Baltic...
    18 KB (2,013 words) - 08:33, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Beaulieu
    December. In November Salisbury handed command of the ship over to Captain Edward Riou, who brought with him several new officers because Beaulieu had taken...
    48 KB (5,801 words) - 01:36, 27 July 2024
  • Rear-Admiral (S) Edward Loftus Tottenham, OBE. Lieutenant-General John Chaddesley Westall, CBE, Royal Marines. Army Major-General Edward Riou Benson, CMG,...
    172 KB (21,524 words) - 00:09, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Robert Mosse
    government erected a joint monument to Mosse and a second naval hero, Edward Riou, who also fell in the Battle of Copenhagen, in the crypt of St Paul's...
    7 KB (729 words) - 21:31, 31 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Robert Faulknor the younger
    frigate "Bienvenue" anchored alongside. The 500 marines, under Captain Edward Riou and Captain Nugent, were given entry to the fort by Faulknor's second-in-command...
    12 KB (1,604 words) - 23:25, 16 August 2024
  • Arrow was in a squadron of sloops and frigates, under the command of Edward Riou, that attacked the Danish vessels near the harbour mouth. She was the...
    9 KB (938 words) - 02:08, 12 August 2024
  • officer and poet Christopher Robert Pemberton (1765–1822), physician Edward Riou, (1762–1801), Royal Navy officer Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), poet José...
    6 KB (316 words) - 16:17, 27 November 2022
  • Lines, South Camp, Blandford in Dorset, under the command of Brigadier Edward Riou Benson (1903–85). Within a month the Headquarters (HQ) staff had joined...
    25 KB (3,371 words) - 21:27, 30 August 2024
  • Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. Brigadier Edward Riou Benson, CBE, Deputy Director, Military Government, British Element, Berlin...
    29 KB (3,400 words) - 18:20, 20 September 2024