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Ship Name Histories - Database of
histories of ship names beginning with letter J. |
Jacob
Bagge  |
| Name Origin: Born 1502, died 1577. A great warrior who fought on land against the Russians and
the Danes. During the war
of 1563-1570 he served with success as Admiral against the Danish Lubeck
fleet. At the battle off
Oeland in 1564, he flew his flag in the Makalos the largest ship.
After having sunk many hostile ships, Begge had to surrender, as
the fire, which had broken out on board, could not be got under.
Soon after she blew up with 1000 men onboard, of whom the
majority were enemies. |
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Jacob Hobein 
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Name Origin: A sailor who on May 19th 1831, saved
the colours of a vessel on shore under a heavy fire. |
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Jacob van Hemskerk
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Name Origin: Distinguished seaman, who in 1596 endeavoured to
find a passage to China and the East Indies along the north coasts of
Europe and Asia; he lost his ships in the ice and had to winter in Nova
Zembla. He afterwards
served in the Republican Navy in the East Indies.
In April 1607, in command of a squadron, he attacked and
destroyed a Spanish squadron in the Straits of Gibraltar.
Admiral Hemskerk was killed in the action. |
Jacquin
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Name Origin: A Captain of Marines, who fell at the side of
Captain Henri riviere in the sortie from Hanoi during the war in Tong
King, May 19th 1883. |
Jagd
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| Name Origin: The chase. |
| Jaguar
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| Name Origin: The American panther or tiger. |
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Jan
Danielszoon van de Ryn
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Name Origin: Captain of the fire ship Pro Patria which
destroyed the British ship Mathias defending the bom across the Medway,
during De Ruyter’s attack on June 12th 1667. |
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Janequeo  |
Name Origin: One of the Auracanian heroines wives of the
Caciques, who fought the Spanish invaders. They figure in the poem
called “La Auracana,” by Don Alonso de Ercilla. |
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Jan Haring
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Name Origin: A Dutch seaman who was killed in the battle on
the Zuyder Zee, October 12th 1573, as he was in the act of
hauling down the flag of the Spanish Admiral Bassu. |
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Janus  |
| Name
Origin: An ancient Latin deity, the janitor of the portals of
heaven. He is the spirit of the opening; in this sense the opening
month of the year, January, is called after him. All the januae,
or gates of Rome, were in his keeping and under his protection; above
all, the gateway (afterwards replaced by a temple of the god)
exclusively used by the army when going to war or returning from
it. Thus it came that the portals of the temple of Janus were
closed in peace and opened during war. Under the Republic they
were only closed three times. Janus is represented with two faces
on opposite sides of his head. |
| Jarramas
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| Name Origin: During the Soujourn of King Charles XII in Turkey
from 1709 to 1714, he gave the Turkish names Jarramas and Illerim to two
frigates, which were then building in Sweden.
These names have since been perpetuated in the Swedish Navy, in
the case of the former to the present day.
According to official reports these two words were taken to mean
“thunder” and “lightning” respectively but this is only true
regard the latter. There is
no single Turkish word meaning, “Thunder,” whilst “Jarramas” is
a colloquial term much in use and meaning “worthless,” “No
good.” It is just
possible that the word was originally misspelt for “Jarranmac,”
meaning “zealous.” |
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Jason |
| Name
Origin: In Greek mythology the son of the King of Jolcus. He led a
band of heroes in the miraculous ship Argo to Colchis in quest of the
golden fleece of the ram which had carried Phrixus thither. By the
assistance of Medea, the daughter of the King of Colchis, the fleece was
obtained after many adventures. Medea, who was a great sorceress,
followed Jason back to Greece and became his wife. When he
abandoned her however, for Creusa, Medea killed the latter and then her
own children by Jason, and disappeared. Jason is said to have been
crushed to death by the poop of the Argo, which fell upon him as he lay
at rest. |
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Jasper Leynssen
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Name Origin: A Dutch seaman who hauled down and secured the
flag of the Spanish Admiral Glimes in the battle of Roemerswaal
(Zealand) on January 29th 1574. |
Jaureguiberry
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Name Origin: Jean Bernard Jaureguilberry, born 1815, died
1887. He entered the Navy
in 1832, fought in the Crimea and China, and was governor of Senegal.
In 1869 he became a Rear Admiral.
In the Franco-German War of 1870 he commanded the 16th
corps of the 1st army of the Loire, and then the 2nd
army of the Loire as Chanzy’s successor.
From 1879-1880, and 1882-1883, he was Minister of Marine. |
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Java
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Name Origin: One of the large Sunda Islands.
The Dutch under Houtman settled there in 1596 and drove out the
Portuguese, who had discovered it in 1511.
In English hands from 1811 to 1815, it then again became a Dutch
possession, and is now their most flourishing colony. |
Javeline
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Name Origin: Javelin, a spear intended to be thrown. |
Jeanne
D'Arc |
Name Origin: Joan of Arc, called the “Maid of Orleans”;
born 1412, died 1431. The daughter of a poor farmer, full of religious
fervour and patriotism, she believed herself chosen by God and the
Virgin to deliver France from the English.
Having announced her heavenly mission to the Dauphin, afterwards
Charles VII, she was entrusted by him with the command of a small army.
With this she defeated the English and delivered Orleans.
In 1429 she escorted Charles to Rheims, and assisted at his
coronation. Dangerously
wounded whilst leading an assault on Paris, Joan retired to Compiegne,
where she was besieged by the English and Burgundians, and captured
during a sortie in 1430. The
English imprisoned her at rouen, and persuaded the Bishop of Beauvais to
try her as a witch. Having
been found guilty, she was burned to death in the market place,
protesting her innocence to the last.
Charles VII made no attempt to save her.
She was beatified in 1894. |
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Jed |
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Origin: A small Scotch river, more generally known as the Jed Water, in
Roxburghshire. It flows past Jedburgh into the Teviot. |
Jemappes
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Name Origin: Town in Belgium, where on November 6th
1792, the French under Dumouriez gained a decisive victory over the
Austrians. |
Jo
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| Name Origin: A species of seagull |
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Johan van Brakel
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Name Origin: Naval officer, who commanded a fire ship during
the “Four Days Fight” off the North foreland (1st to 4th
June 1666) against the British. In
De Ruyter’s attack on the Medway on June 12th the following
year, he commanded the Vrede, 40 with which he boarded and captured the
Unity. Changing over to a
smaller vessel the Schiedam, he boarded the Carolus Quintus, after she
had driven off two fire ships, took her and turned her guns upon the
land batteries at each end of the chain boom, which he soon silenced.
As Rear Admiral he took part in the battle off Beachy Head, June
30th 1690, and there met his death. |
| John
Ericsson |
| Name Origin: An engineer and inventor, born 1803, died at New
York 1869. He entered the
Swedish Army in 1820, but in 1826 went to England, where he was one of
the first to apply the principle of a screw propeller to ships.
In 1837 he obtained a speed of ten knots with a small screw
steamer on the Thames, but as the Government declined to have anything
to do with it, he left in disgust for the United States.
There his invention was accepted, and he was commissioned to
build several war steamers for the United States Navy. When the Civil War broke out he constructed for the Federal
Government the famous ironclad ram, Monitor, which in March 1862 sank
the Confederate ironclad Merrimac. |
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Jorge  |
Name Origin : Captain Nicolas Jorge
distinguished himself during the wars against Spain and Brazil,
especially at the battle of Juncal in 1826, and at the defence of
Concepcion de Uruguay in 1839..
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Jouffroy
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Name Origin: Claude F. D. Marquis de Jouffroy d’Albans born
1751, died 1832, one of the inventors of steam navigation, an officer in
the French royal Army. In
1776 he invented and constructed a steam engine, which propelled a small
ship by means of a kind of oars, but met with little sympathy or
encouragement. In 1780 he
improved his machine, and in 1783 worked the ship up the Saone from
Lyons to the island of Barbe. A
committee of academicians and naval officers was then appointed to
examine his invention, but their examination proved to be so
unfavourable to it that jouffroy abandoned his work.
He continued his service in the Army until the Revolution broke
out, when he went into exile. After his return to France in 1816 he started a company for
the construction of steamships, and built one called the Charles
Philippe that same year. The
company failed, however, and jouffroy was ruined. |
Jules
Ferry |
Name Origin: Born 1832, died 1893; a distinguished statesman,
who in 1879, as Minister of Public Instruction, reorganised the Paris
University and successfully carried on anti clerical bill through the
Chambers. In 1880-1881 and
again in 1883 he was Prime Minister and pursued a vigorous colonial
policy. The failure of the Tong King campaign in 1885 turned him out
of office and greatly damaged his popularity.
A few months before his death he was selected President of the
Senate. |
Jules
Michelet |
Name Origin: Born 1798, died 1874; a great historian and
author of many remarkable works. Educated
at the Lycee Charlemagne, he obtained in 1830 a post in the Record
Office. Soon afterwards he
commenced his monumental histoire de France, which was not completed
until 1867. In 1838 he was
associated with his friend, Edgar Quinet, in a violent polemic against
the Jesuits. At the time of
his death he was engaged upon a history of the Nineteenth Century, which
however, he was unable to carry beyond the Waterloo campaign. |
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Julian Ordofiez 
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Name Origin: Lieutenant in the Navy, who fell in 1872 whilst
defending the arsenal of Manila (Philippines) against an attack by
insurgents. |
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Juno |
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Name Origin: In Roman mythology the wife of Jupiter
and Queen of Heaven. To the Romans she represented the ideal
matron. Later they identified her with the Greek Hera. The
month of June is called after her.
The fifth “JUNO” was a 16-gun privateer from
Liverpool. Strictly
speaking this vessel was not one of the King’s ships, but she is
included on account of her war service.
On August 14th, 1803, while commanded by Master
Lutwidge Affleck, she fell in with and at once engaged the French 44-gun
frigate “Poursuivante” off Wilmington.
After a two hours engagement , in which the “Juno” had two
killed, several wounded and the ship much shattered, the colours were
hauled down, and the ship was burned by the French.
The sixth “JUNO” was a 26-gun frigate, launched at Pembroke
in 1844. She was of 923
tons, and carried a crew of 240 men.
Her length, beam, and draught were 131ft., 41ft., and 15ft.
For some years this ship acted as a police hulk at Portsmouth as
“Mariner,” but she was then converted into a training ship for
ordinary seamen, and renamed “Atlanta.”
On January 31st, 1880, as “Atlanta,” she sailed
from Bermuda for England with a crew of 113 officers and men, and 170
ordinary seamen. The ship
was never seen again, and she is believed to have foundered in a
terrific gale between February 12th and 16th.
The seventh “JUNO” was an 8-gun screw
corvette, launched at Deptford in 1867.
She was of 2240 tons, 1380 horse-power, and 10 knots speed.
Her length, beam, and draught were 200ft., 40ft., and 18ft.
The box-like shape of this vessel led to her being nicknamed the
“Tea Chest.” In
1878 the “Juno,”
commanded by Captain J.A. Poland, was engaged in watching a Russian
squadron in the Far East during a period of strained relations.
In 1887 the “Juno” was sold.
The eighth “JUNO” is
an 11-gun twin-screw cruiser, launched at Barrow in 1895.
She is of 5600 tons, 9600 horse-power, and 19 knots speed.
Her length, beam, and draught were 350ft., 54ft., and 21ft.
In 1901 the “Juno,” commanded by Captain H.O. Routh, was
employed as escort to H.M.S. “Ophir” during the tour of Their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (now their
Majesties King George V. and Queen Mary) to the colonies.
In 1912 and 1913 the “Juno” acted as a parent ship of two of
the torpedo-boat destroyer flotillas at Harwich. |
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Jupiter |
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Origin: In Roman mythology the supreme god and lord of heaven and
earth. His weapon was the thunderbolt. The Romans later identified
him with the Greek Zeus. |
Jurien
De La Graviere |
Name Origin: Admiral Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de la Graviere,
born 1812, died 1892; son of Admiral Pierre Roche Jurien de la Graviere.
He entered the Navy in 1828, and served during the Crimean War as
flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Bruat. During
the war with Austria 1859, he blockaded Venice, and in 1861 he commanded
the squadron, which covered the landing of the troops in Mexico and
operated on the coast during the war with that country.
In 1888 he was elected member of the Academie francaise, and was
appointed Director General of the hydrographical department of the
Ministry of Marine. He was the author of numerous valuable works on Naval
History. |
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Jurua
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Name Origin: Name of a Brazilian River, tributary to the
Amazon. |
Justice
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Jutahy
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Name Origin: Name of a Brazilian river, tributary to the
Amazon. |
Jylland
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Name Origin: Jutland, the peninsula of Denmark. |
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