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Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1733 to 1742. Despite heroic active service and steadfast administration and diplomatic service, Wager can be criticized for his failure to deal with an acute manning problem.
Hace 4 días · Charles Wager. Admiral Sir Charles Wager (1666-1743) was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. He was a grandson of John Wager, mariner of Rochester in Kent, and son of Charles Wager (1630-66), captain in the Navy, and Prudence (Goodsonn).
16 de jul. de 2018 · But through his step-father’s business as a merchant, Wager met a Quaker ship captain, John Hull, and took a job as a cabin boy on his ship. The captain regularly sailed between Britain and the Americas. In the late 1680s, Britain was at war with France. Privateers would target merchant vessels from the opposing side.
Wager's Action was a naval confrontation on 8 June 1708 N.S. (28 May O.S.), between a British squadron under Charles Wager and the Spanish treasure fleet, as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. The battle ended in a British victory over the Spanish fleet.
Alone in his ship the ‘Expedition’, Wager attacked the principal Spanish flagship which blew up. He captured the Spanish rear admiral, but discovered that the treasure had either been destroyed in the flagship or escaped in the vice admiral’s ship.
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Wager, Sir Charles, (1666-1743), Knight Admiral. This page summarises records created by this Person. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the...
Hull “had used every endeavor to escape, but seeing from the superior sailing of the Frenchman, that his capture was inevitable, he quietly retired below: he was followed into the cabin by his cabin boy, a youth of activity and enterprise, named Charles Wager.
