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The Portuguese Navy sent a naval force, under the command of Captain Melo Gomes, composed of the frigate Vasco da Gama, the corvettes Honório Barreto and João Coutinho and the support ship Bérrio. Bérrio carried on board a Marine force that included the Special Actions Detachment (DAE) , the 22nd Marine Company and support elements (command, liaison, boat, divers and medical teams).
Naval career Digby was the third son of Charlotte Fox and the Hon. Edward Digby (1693–1746), eldest son of William Digby, 5th Baron Digby. He entered the navy aged twelve or thirteen, and became Captain of HMS Solebay at the age of 23 in 1755, and was present at the Raid on Rochefort and the 1758 Raid on St Malo, and Capture of Gorée, and at the Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759 November 20 as ...
William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir William George Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, when she searched for German capital ships in ...
Angus Essenhigh joined the Royal Navy in 1992 as a University Cadet. Early seagoing assignments in Minesweepers, Frigates and as the Navigating Officer of an American Destroyer followed. He ...
Daniel Roberts (18 February 1789 – 18 February 1869) was an officer in the Royal Navy who made a series of cameo-like appearances in the lives of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Ellerker Williams, and Edward John Trelawny. Roberts is best known for having designed and supervised the construction of Shelley's schooner, Don Juan, and ...
Frederick Marryat. Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS [1] (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) [2] was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi- autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New ...
Post-captain, post captain, or postcaptain is an obsolete alternative form of the rank of captain in the Royal Navy . The term served to distinguish those who were captains by rank from: Officers in command of a naval vessel, who were (and still are) addressed as captain regardless of rank; Commanders, who received the title of captain as a ...
