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Showing posts with label Escunas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Escunas. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 October 2026

Portuguese escuna Esperanca 1759

Mentioned in1759.

Source

A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.

Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Portuguese escuna Real Pedro 1799-1800

First mentioned in 1799, lost in 1800. 

Source

A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Portuguese escuna Invencivel 1798-1801

Mentioned between 1798-1801.

Source

A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.

Friday, 8 September 2023

Portuguese escuna Kiki 1798-1799

Former privateer, mentioned 1798-1799.

Source

A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.

Portuguese escuna Real Invicta Viana 1797-1801

First mentioned in 1797, privateer in 1797, last mentioned in 1801.

Source

A. Marques Esparteira. Catalogo dos navios brigantinos (1640-1901). Lisboa, 1976.

Saturday, 21 August 2021

Brazilian brig escuna Constanca 1827-1841


Commissioned in 1827. Dimensions 28,65 x 7,01 x 3,65 metres. Armed with 2-6 pd guns and 8-18pd carronades . Disarmed on 13 May 1841. 

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Brazilian escuna Bela Maria 1827-1836


Dimensions 20,42 x 5,79 x 2,43 metres. The armament consisted of 1 culverin and 4-12pd carronades. Built at Genoa, Italy.

Sunday, 25 December 2011

The Portuguese and Tunisian navies in the Levant according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 25 April 1818

Paris, 19 April. According to a letter of the Portuguese consul at Gibraltar dated 9 march consisted the in the Strait stationed Portuguese division of the frigates Perla (1), Amazona (2) and Venus (3) and the brig Constance (4) were blockading two Tunisian war vessels namely a corvette and a schooner in the bay. The other two Tunisian war vessels namely a brig and a schooner which formed with the two blockaded ships a division stayed hidden. Probably they were destined to make a cruising voyage.

Lisbon, 11 March. The Portuguese merchants of Gibraltar Cergueira de Carvalho and Andreade da Silva bought a chebecq which was fitted out at their expenses to join the Portuguese squadron. The commanding officer of the this squadron accepted the gift and named her Goede Portugees [Dutch translation of the original name who probably sounds like Bom Português.(5)

Source
Antonio Marques Esparteiro. Catalogo dos navios brigantinoes (1640-1910). Lisbon, 1976.


Notes
1. The 44-guns frigate Pérola, built at Pará 1797 and in 1831 at Brest handed over to the French admiral Roussin?
2. A 50-gun frigate built at Pará 1798 with the same fate as the Pérola.
3. The 36-gun frigate Vénus launched at Baia 22 February 1792 and in 1827 broken up at Lisbon?
4. The 12-gun brig-escuna Constância purchased 1817 and in 1832-1833 floating battery in the harbour of Lisbon?
5. Esparteiro mentioned indeed an xaveco Bom Português purchased at Gibraltar in 1818. Also called an escuna and caique. Wrecked in 1826.