Miles Standish was the captain of which famous ship?
"upon real ""Mayflower"" Pilgrims. Longfellow was a descendant of the Pilgrims through his mother Zilpah Wadsworth, including John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, and he claimed that he was relating oral history. Skeptics dismiss his saga as a folktale, but no conclusive evidence exists either way. At minimum, Longfellow used poetic license, condensing several years of events. Scholars have confirmed the cherished place of romantic love in Pilgrim culture, and have documented the Indian war described by Longfellow. Circumstantial evidence of the love triangle also exists. Miles Standish and John Alden were likely roommates; Priscilla Mullins was the only single woman"
"Desire (ship) The Desire was the 120 ton flagship Thomas Cavendish built for his highly successful 1586-1588 circumnavigation of the globe. The ""Desire"" was only the third ship to circumnavigate the globe after the ""Victoria"" of Ferdinand Magellan (journey completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano) and the ""Golden Hind"" of Francis Drake. After this expedition Cavendish was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England who was invited to a dinner aboard the ""Desire"". The ship was later captained by John Davis on the second, unsuccessful, Cavendish expedition. On that same expedition it was the ship he captained when he probably discovered"
"had abused the colonists' trust over many years, and he was forced to leave the colony in the 1630s. Myles Standish - (Name per Morton, 1669: Miles Standish) - Standish had been a soldier of fortune, possibly from London but serving in the Low Countries in Europe prior to joining the Leiden contingent. There is evidence that he was not a member of the Leiden church but was associated with it. He came on the ""Mayflower"" with his wife Rose, who died early. He was the colony’s chief military officer and served well in that capacity until his death in"
"the best known depictions of him in popular culture was the 1858 poem ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The highly fictionalized story presents him as a timid romantic. It was extremely popular in the 19th century and played a significant role in cementing the Pilgrim story in US culture. Little is definitively known of Myles Standish's origin and early life. His place of birth has been subject to debate among historians for more than 150 years. At the center of the debate is language in his will, drafted in Plymouth Colony in 1656, regarding his rights"
"and was buried on Standish's farm in Duxbury. Standish died on October 3, 1656 of ""strangullion"" or strangury, a condition often associated with kidney stones or bladder cancer. He was buried in Duxbury's Old Burying Ground, now known as the Myles Standish Cemetery. Myles Standish married: Children of Myles and Barbara Standish: Standish's true-life role in defending Plymouth Colony and the sometimes brutal tactics that he employed were largely obscured by the fictionalized character created by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his narrative poem ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"". Historian Tudor Jenks wrote that Longfellow's book had ""no claim to be"
"of furs and timber for the Pilgrims for seven years. However, in 1635, the French mounted a small expedition and easily reclaimed the settlement. William Bradford ordered Captain Standish to take action, determined that the post be reclaimed in Plymouth Colony's name. This was a significantly larger proposition than the small expeditions which Standish had previously led and, to accomplish the task, he chartered the ship ""Good Hope"" captained by a man named Girling. Standish's plan appears to have been to bring the ""Good Hope"" within cannon range of the trading post and to bombard the French into surrender. Unfortunately,"
"1785. The town is named in honor of Captain Myles Standish. Much of Standish is sandy plains covered with pine, yet farmers found considerable arable land. Watermills at various streams produced lumber, headings, shooks, barrel staves, carriages, clothing, flour, ice, plaster and packing boxes. The Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened in 1832, increasing trade between Sebago Lake and Portland. It was followed by the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad, which on September 12, 1870 began regular passenger service between Portland and Sebago Lake Station. Tourists could arrive by train in the morning, ride a side-wheel steamboat the whole length of the"
"VIII's warship), the ""Golden Hind"" (Sir Francis Drake's ship for the circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580), HMS ""Victory"" (Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805), and HMS ""Beagle"" (ship used in Charles Darwin's five-year voyage). Other important British ships include HMS ""Endeavour"" (James Cook's ship in his first voyage of discovery), HMS ""Challenger"" (first global marine research expedition: the ""Challenger"" expedition), and ""Discovery"" (carried Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton in the Discovery Expedition, their first successful journey to the Antarctic). The Royal Navy troopship is known for the first appearance of the ""women"
"Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts for staging before transport to Europe. On Thanksgiving Day 1944, three transports sailed from Boston Port of Embarkation to Europe. The 304th Infantry plus a Division Headquarters party sailed on the SS ""Brazil"". The 304th reached Southampton, England on 4 December 1944. The 385th Infantry crossed the Atlantic on the SS ""Sea Owl"". The 385th reached Southampton on 4 December 1944. The 417th Infantry sailed on the SS ""Marine Raven"". The 417th docked at Plymouth 4 December 1944. The remainder of the division sailed from Boston on 10 December 1944 aboard the Coast Guard operated"
"and mapped the North American coast. They approached him to return to the New World and he expressed interest. His experience made him an attractive candidate, but the Pilgrims ultimately decided against him; his price was too high and they feared that his fame and bold character might lead him to become a dictator. Standish lived in Leiden with his wife Rose and was apparently already known to them. On July 22, 1620 (Old Style date), the initial group of English Dissenters living in Leiden boarded the ""Speedwell"", which was meant to accompany another ship to be hired in England."
"The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923 film) The Courtship of Miles Standish is a 1923 American silent epic historical romantic drama film about Myles Standish produced by and starring Charles Ray, Enid Bennett, and E. Alyn Warren. Directed by Frederic Sullivan, nephew of the famous composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, and scripted by Albert Ray, the film is based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"". No known prints of the film exist and it is now presumed lost. Actor Charles Ray had risen to fame in the mid to late 1910s playing young, wholesome country bumpkins"
"Joseph Bradish Joseph Bradish (1672-1700) was a pirate best known for a single incident involving a mutiny. Bradish signed on as a mate with the Borneo-bound 300-ton pink ""Adventure"" out of London in March 1698. The ""Adventure’s"" captain, Thomas Gullock, was much disliked and Bradish organized a mutiny against him. When Gullock and some officers went ashore in the Spice Islands, Bradish’s men cut the anchor cables, put anyone who wouldn’t follow them off in a small boat, and stole the ship. Bradish was elected Captain and shared the ship’s treasure with his men. They sailed to Mauritius and Ascension"
"counterpoint to Longfellow's earlier ""Evangeline"" (1847), the tragic tale of a woman whose lover disappears during the deportation of the Acadian people in 1755. Together, ""Evangeline"" and ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"" captured the bittersweet quality of America's colonial era. However, the plot of ""The Courtship of Miles Standish"" deliberately varies in emotional tone, unlike the steady tragedy of Longfellow's ""Evangeline"". The Pilgrims grimly battle against disease and Indians, but are also obsessed with an eccentric love triangle, creating a curious mix of drama and comedy. Bumbling, feuding roommates Miles Standish and John Alden vie for the affections of the"
"Myles Standish Myles Standish (c. 1584 – October 3, 1656) was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military adviser for Plymouth Colony. He accompanied them on the ""Mayflower"" journey and played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its inception. On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. He served as an agent of Plymouth Colony in England, as assistant governor, and as treasurer of the Colony. He was also one of"
"Asa Eldridge Asa Eldridge (1809 – 1856) was a sea captain from Yarmouth, Massachusetts. In 1854, Captain Eldridge guided the clipper ship ""Red Jacket"" from New York and to Liverpool in only in 13 days, 1 hour, and 25 minutes, dock to dock, setting a speed record for the fastest trans-Atlantic crossing by a commercial sailing vessel that has remained unbroken ever since. In 1856, Captain Eldridge skippered the ill-fated steamship ""SS Pacific"", which disappeared at sea on a voyage from Liverpool to New York. Eldridge is also known for having captained Cornelius Vanderbilt’s private steam-powered yacht, the ""North Star"","
"Sarah Allen (daughter of Samuel Allen) around 1660. Josiah and Sarah Standish children: Josiah, (Reverend, lived/died in Stafford, CT) Mary, Mehitable, Martha, Samuel, Israel, Lois, and Mercy Standish (Mercy[dau. of Rev. Josiah Standish of Stafford, CT], m. Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, b. 1711,of Windham, CT, who founded Dartmouth College). Josiah Standish Capt. Josiah Standish, son of Capt. Myles Standish, was born abt 1633 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He died on 19 March 1690 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut. A Captain in the Plymouth Colony Militia who participated in King Philip's War, Standish, along with Captain Benjamin Church, led a raiding"
"600 passengers, including women and children, livestock and enough provisions to last a year in ""the largest fleet England has ever amassed in the West"". Newport, as Vice-admiral, commanded ""Sea Venture"", the new flagship of the Company, which had been specially built for the purpose. It was considerably larger than the other eight ships, and carried a large proportion of the supplies intended for the colony. Also aboard the new flagship were Admiral Sir George Somers, William Strachey, Sylvester Jourdain and Sir Thomas Gates, people notable in the early history of English colonization in North America. On June 2, 1609,"
"attorney John Wickham. Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS ""Fanning"" for him. Nathaniel Fanning Nathaniel Fanning (31 May 1755 – 30 September 1805) was an officer in the Continental Navy and later the United States Navy, who served aboard ""Bonhomme Richard"" during its 1779 battle with HMS ""Serapis"". Fanning was born in Stonington, Connecticut, and was the eldest son of Gilbert Fanning and Huldah Palmer. His father was a sea merchant who was one of the largest provisioners of General George Washington's army during the American Revolution. On May 26, 1778, Fanning embarked from Boston,"
"Josiah Standish Capt. Josiah Standish, son of Capt. Myles Standish, was born abt 1633 in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. He died on 19 March 1690 in Preston, New London County, Connecticut. A Captain in the Plymouth Colony Militia who participated in King Philip's War, Standish, along with Captain Benjamin Church, led a raiding party that tracked the Wampanoag chief, Metacomet to Mt. Hope, Rhode Island. Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet. He married first in 1656 Mary Dingley of Marshfield, MA who died 6 months later, second he married"
"in American shipbuilding yards by medium clippers. The ""Flying Cloud"" was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. She held this record for over 100 years, from 1854 to 1989.[1] ""Flying Cloud"" was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with the ""Hornet"" in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy, wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy, who skippered the ""Flying Cloud"" on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and"
"the Commission of Enquiry in 1618 she was condemned and broken up. English ship Triumph (1562) Triumph of 1562 was the first vessel of record to hold the name. She was a 60-gun English galleon built in Deptford in 1561–62 and launched in October 1562. With a nominal burden of 1000 tons, she was the largest ship built in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ""Triumph"" was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two lateen-rigged mizzenmasts. She served effectively as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Martin Frobisher during the battle of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1595–96"
"today as ""Ditch Plains"". The frozen bodies of 24 sailors washed ashore and were buried at the South End Burying Ground in East Hampton, New York, where there is a marble monument today. Harding′s body was identified, but his son′s was never found. Capt. Harding's body was returned home and is buried in the Village Cemetery in Vineyard Haven, MA. John Milton (ship) John Milton, a 1,444-ton vessel built in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was wrecked on February 20, 1858 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of the Montauk Lighthouse, killing all 32 or 33 people on board, in one of the"
"number of merchant steamships powered by Allaire engines and converted them into warships. Some of these vessels had been built prior to the war, while others were built during the war and requisitioned by the Navy as they entered service. The largest and most impressive of these ships was the 3,360-ton oceangoing sidewheel steamer ""Vanderbilt"", launched in 1856, and gifted to the U.S. Navy by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1862. With her 14 knot speed and long operational range, ""Vanderbilt"" was an ideal candidate for a pursuit ship, and after being fitted out with a formidable battery of cannon, the newly"
"Duxbury, Massachusetts. The exact location of her grave is unknown, but there is a marker honoring her. She is known to literary history as the unrequited love of newly widowed Captain Miles Standish, the colony's military advisor, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1858 poem ""The Courtship of Miles Standish."" According to the poem, Standish asked his good friend John Alden to propose to Priscilla on his behalf, only to have Priscilla ask, ""Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"" Longfellow was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla, and based his poem on a romanticized version of a family tradition although,"
"Captain Reynolds for ""Speedwell"" and Captain Christopher Jones for ""Mayflower"". Other passengers joined the group in Southampton, including William Brewster, who had been in hiding for the better part of a year, and a group of people known to the Leiden congregation as ""The Strangers."" This group was largely made up of people recruited by the Merchant Adventurers to provide practical assistance to the colony and additional hands to work for the colony's ventures. The term was also used for many of the indentured servants. Among the Strangers were Myles Standish, who was the colony's military leader; Christopher Martin, who"
"Samuel Badger, but William Badger, called Master Badger, is best known. He is buried on the island that bears his name. In 1837, Frederick Fernald purchased Badger's shipyard. In 1844, he joined William Pettigrew to establish Fernald & Pettigrew, which would produce some 30 ships. Among their output was a series of clipper ships, including the ""Typhoon"". Launched in 1851, ""Typhoon"" set a sailing record to Liverpool, England—13 days, 10 hours dock to dock. Known as the ""Portsmouth Flyer,"" it was the largest merchant ship yet seen in that port. But Badger's Island would lose its importance as a shipbuilding"
"John Milton (ship) John Milton, a 1,444-ton vessel built in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was wrecked on February 20, 1858 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of the Montauk Lighthouse, killing all 32 or 33 people on board, in one of the worst maritime disasters off the east coast of on Long Island, New York. Built in 1854, ""John Milton"" was captained by Ephraim Harding of Martha's Vineyard, with its home port at New Bedford, Massachusetts. The 43-year-old Harding was born in New Bedford. Also on board wasthe captain's teenage son, Francis. The ship left New York City on December 6, 1856."
"Sir Samuel Cornish, 1st Baronet Sir Samuel Cornish, 1st Baronet (c. 1715 – 30 October 1770) was a British naval commander who fought in the Seven Years' War and conquered Manila on 6 October 1762. Cornish joined the Navy in 1728, and having been promoted to lieutenant in 1739, he served at Cartagena in 1741. In 1742 he became flag captain of HMS ""Namur"" under Vice-Admiral Thomas Mathews and served with him in the Mediterranean. He was given command of HMS ""Guernsey"" later that year and commissioned HMS ""Stirling Castle"" in 1755. In 1758 he transferred to HMS ""Union"". He"
"Myles Standish. It was officially incorporated in 1671 by Francis Lovelace, Governor General of New York. The town, which originally included the lands of West Tisbury, was named for Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, the hometown of Martha's Vineyard Governor Mayhew. Citizens of the island, unhappy with the leadership of Governor Mayhew, petitioned William III and Mary II in 1673 for a change of leadership, and the entire island, including the town, became a part of Massachusetts. The town was divided into its current boundaries in 1892. The town has long thrived on the sea and is now the home of the"
"from San Francisco, California, to Hawaii. ""Vanderbilt""—originally a transatlantic passenger and mail steamer—was built by Jeremiah Simonson of Greenpoint, Long Island, New York, in 1856 and 1857; chartered by the Union Army shortly after the start of the Civil War in April 1861; offered to the Army by her owner, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, in early 1862; and transferred to the Navy on 24 March. Popularly known as ""Vanderbilt's Yacht"", the former flagship of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt's North Atlantic Mail Steamship Line began her military career in Hampton Roads, Virginia, intended for use as a ram against the Confederate ironclad CSS"
"off Raine Island. Amongst the passengers on the outward voyage from London to Melbourne were Edward Thomas FYSH and his sister Harriet FYSH. Harriet married William Henderson HARDIE in Melbourne and was on board the 'Fatima' when the vessel was wrecked on Great Detached Reef. Harriet FYSH was Grand Aunt to Wilmot Hudson FYSH, pioneer aviator and co-founder of Qantas. Fatima (1849 vessel) Fatima was an English barque that was wrecked on 26 June 1854 in the Torres Strait. She was built by R. Hutchinson, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, launched in 1849 and registered at Liverpool. Her cargo capacity was"
"remains in a hermetically sealed chamber beneath the grave-site monument. His burial site is located in Myles Standish Burial Ground in Duxbury. The site of Myles Standish's house reveals only a slight depression in the ground where the cellar hole was, but it is now a small park owned and maintained by the town of Duxbury. Standish, Maine is named for the Captain, as well as the neighborhood of Standish, Minneapolis. At least two forts were named after Standish: an earthen fort on Plymouth's Saquish Neck built during the American Civil War, and a larger cement fort built on Lovells"
"the Armada. In consequence, Spanish plans for the invasion of England were put off until the following year. In early 1588, Drake moved his flag from ""Elizabeth Bonaventure"" to ""Revenge"", which was considered to be the best by far of the new ships. On 29 July 1588 the Battle of Gravelines (named after a Flemish town near Calais), was concluded as one of the fiercest and most decisive battles engaged in during these years. At the outset of the conflict, ""Revenge"" proved worthy of her reputation. Following ""Revenge"" at the head of the line, the English fleet engaged their broadsides"