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Ship Name Histories - Database of histories of ship names beginning with letter M. |
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Name Origin: Vice Admiral Don Jacobo MacMahon, born 1820, died 1887. The gunboat, which bears this name, was launched at Ferrol during Admiral MacMahon’s tenure of office as Superintendent of the dockyard at the place. |
Name Origin : Town on the Coromandel Coast, and capital of the Presidency of that name. |
Name Origin: Fernando de Magallanes or Magelhaens, commonly called Magellan; born 1470 in Portugal, died 1521. He distinguished himself in the Portuguese service by the capture of Malacca, but being dissatisfied with this service entered that of Spain in 1517. In the autumn of 1519, in command of a squadron of five ships, he sailed in search of a western passage to the Moluccas, reached the mouth of La Plata early in 1520, and coasting southward discovered and sailed through the straits that bear his name. In the Pacific he discovered the Ladrone Islands and the Philippine Archipelago. He fell in a fight with the natives off the island of Matan in 1521. Only one of his five ships completed the circumnavigation of the globe, and under the command of Sebastian el Cano, returned safely to Spain in 1522. |
Name Origin: Town in Northern Italy where on June 14th 1859, the French and Sardinians, under Napoleon III, and MacMahon defeated the Austrians under Gyulay. MacMahon was created Duke of Magenta. |
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| Name Origin: In Norse mythology a son of Thor and the giantess Jernsaxa. He was stronger than his father, and in the new world he was to inherit the latter’s magic hammer “Mjolner.” |
Name Origin : Place near which General San Martin won his decisive victory in 1818, which virtually sealed the Independence of Chile. |
| Name Origin: Cirrus clouds. |
Name Origin: An island off the west coast of Gilolo in the Moluccas. |
Name Origin: Mackerel. |
Name Origin: Mackerel. |
Name Origin: Mameluke, the plural of the Arabic word Memalik (slave). The Mamelukes were a large force of trained warriors formed out of Circassian slaves by the Sultan of Egypt in the thirteenth century. They soon became all-powerful, and ruled Egypt for 300 years. They fought stubbornly against Napoleon’s army of invasion, and were only finally suppressed by the Khedive Mehemet Ali. |
| Name Origin: The white napped crane or stork. |
Name Origin: “sleeve,” the French name for the English Channel. |
Name Origin: A Manchurian, an inhabitant of Manchuria, the northeastern portion of China, a great part of which was ceded to Rusiia in 1860. |
Name Origin: A river in the Portuguese territory of Goa in India. |
Name Origin: A naval engineer who was killed by an accident onboard the torpedo boat Sarrazin during her steam trials in January 1894. |
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| Name Origin: Manliness. |
| Name Origin: The Japanese name for Manchuria. |
| Name Origin: Name of a Polynesian race, which forms the native population of the Dominion of New Zealand. After a protracted and stubborn resistance, which necessitated the employment of considerable military forces between 1860 and 1866, the Maoris gradually settled down side by side with the British colonists, became for the most part Christians, and now take a share in the administration of the Dominion, having even their own representatives in Parliament. |
Name Origin: The adjutant bird |
Name Origin: One of the twenty United States; its capital is Sao Luiz de Maranhao. |
Name Origin: A river in the Portuguese territory of Goa in India. |
Name Origin: The younger of that name Duke of Palliano; born 1535, died 1584. He commanded the Potential galleys, under Don John of Austria, at the battle of Lepanto in 1571, after which great victory he was accorded a “triumph” in Rome, being received by the Pope in the Church of Ara Coeli. Philip II of Spain made him Viceroy of Sicily. |
Name Origin: General Francois Servein Desgraviers Marceau, born 1769, died 1796, one of the Generals of the First Republic. On the outbreak of the Revolution he became Inspector of the National guards. He defended Verdun in 1792, fought in the Vendee, and succeeded General Kleber in command of the army of the West, winning the battle of Le Mans in 1794. He led the right wing of General Jourdan’s army in the battles of Fleurus and Roer, occupied Coblence and commanded in the sieges of Ehrenbreitstein, Mayence, and Mannheim in 1796. He fell at the battle of Altenkirchen. |
Name Origin: Celebrated traveller, son of Nicolo, and nephew of Maffeo Polo, two Venetian merchants who, in the thirteenth century, travelled to Bokhara, and visited the great Khan of Tartary, Kublai, ruler of the Chinese Empire. On there second expedition to Tartary Marco accompanied them, and gaining the favour of the Khan, spent over twenty years in his service. During this time he explored the greater part of Central and Southern Asia and many of the adjacent islands. On his return to Venice a rich and prosperous man, he was received with much honour and greater curiosity. In 1298 he took part in the Venetian campaign against Genoa, and was made prisoner at the battle of Curzola. During his capacity he dictated the history of his travels to a fellow prisoner. The last years of his life were spent in Venice, where he died in 1323. |
Name Origin: A River in Transylvania, tributary of the Theiss. |
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Name Origin: Don Juan Jose Navarro, Marquis de la Victoria; born 1687, died 1772. He served in the Navy fewer than five kings, and rose to be Captain General and director of the Navy. For his services in the action with the English under Admiral Matthews off Toulon in 1744, where he commanded the Spanish squadron, Philip V created him Marquis de la Victoria. |
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Name Origin: Don Roca de Togores, Marquis de Molins, born 1812, died 1889, a scientist and politician. He was several times Minister of Marine and Ambassador in London, Paris, etc. |
Name Origin: A village near the Incomati River in East Africa, when the Portuguese troops fought Gungunhana’s warriors during the war of 1895. |
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Origin: In roman mythology the god of war. The Spring was sacred to him, and the month of March derives
its name from him. He was
believed to be the father of Remulus, the founder of Rome.
The Romans identified him with the Greek Aries.
The ship name commemorates the capture of the French Mars, 64, by the Nottingham on October 11th 1746. In the year 1781 three Dutch ships called Mars were captured successively; another Dutch Mars had been captured in 1665, but not added to the Royal Navy. |
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| Name Origin: The Roman god of war. He was believed to be the father of Romulus, the founder of Rome. The Romans later identified him with Ares, the Greek god of war. |
Name Origin: The name of the famous Revolutionary song, which is now the National Anthem of the French Republic. The ship name dates from 1900. |
Name Origin: The first President of the newly established Republic. |
Name Origin: The second President of the Republic. |
Name Origin: A Swedish fortress on the island of Gottenburg long captured to be impregnable. The Danes, however, twice captured it, once in 1676, and again in 1716. When, thanks to Admiral Tordenskjold’s great reputation, the Swedish commandant surrendered it to him almost without resistance. |
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Name Origin: Martin Alonzo Pinzon was a wealthy merchant and experienced navigator of the Port of Palos, who fitted out and commanded one of the three caravels that sailed under the command of Columbus to the discovery of a new world in 1492. Jealousy of Columbus induced Pinzon to separate from him on the return voyage, but Columbus reached Spain with the good news of his success sooner than Pinzon, who died soon after he too returned. |
Name Origin: Born 1597, died 1653. He was onboard his father’s, a merchant skipper’s ship, as a boy for eleven, when it was captured by an English privateer. His father was killed, and he was obliged to serve the enemy for two years as a Cabin boy. He entered the Dutch Navy in 1617, and commanded a frigate in 1624. He became Lieutenant Admiral in 1637. In February 1639 he defeated a greatly superior Spanish fleet under Admiral Oquendo off Gravelines. On May 19th 1652 he fought the British under Blake off Dover, and again on November 30th, when he gained a decided victory; after which he sailed up the Channel with a broom at his masthead in token of derision. In 1663 he successfully fought the British under Monk and Dean in the battles off Portland, February 18th-20th, and off Solebay, June 2nd-3rd. In the battle off the Texel, July 29th-31st, Tromp fell, and the Dutch were defeated. |
Name Origin: A river in Southwest Africa, in the Portuguese territory of Cabinda, between the Congo State and French Congoland. |
Name Origin: Andre Massena (or Manasses), Duc de Rivoli, Prince d’Essling, born 1758, died 1817, one of Napoleon’s celebrated Marshals. He entered the Army at the outbreak of the French Revolution, and rose rapidly to be a General of Division. He distinguished himself in the three Italian campaigns, and especially at the battle of Rivoli, January 14th and 15th 1797. In 1799 he defeated the Austrians and Russians at Zurich. After the battle of Merengo 1800, he was made Commander in chief of the army of Italy, and took Naples and Gaeta in 1806. He commanded the right wing off Napoleon’s army in the battle of Eylau, and the Fourth Army corps at the battle of Essling, May 21st and 22nd 1809. In 1810 and 1811 he commanded against Wellington in the Peninsula (Torres Vedras), and fell into disfavour for his want of success in this campaign. In 1814 he commanded the troops at Marseilles, and went over to the Bourbons. |
Name Origin: Club (weapon). |
Name Origin: The chief actor in a bullfight, whose business it is to kill the bull. |
Name Origin: The chief residence of the late Sultan of Lombok, which was taken in 1894 by the naval and military forces after a stubborn resistance. |
| Name Origin: The wind among the pine trees. |
| Name Origin: Literally, “Pine Island.” The actual place of this name has been for centuries one of the three “show places” of Japan, as already explained, and is situated in the provinces of Rikuzen, in north Japan, remarkable for its islet-studded waters and entrenching scenery. There are over a thousand islands, most of them well covered with pine trees (matsu) of most fantastic shapes, dotted about a small inlet in the neighbourhood of the town of Sendai. The view presented is picturesque in the extreme. |
| Name Origin: A mount near Kobe, in the province of Settsu. |
Name Origin : Daughter of the late Sir Bartle Frer, Bart, who was Governor of Bonbay from 1862 to 1867. |
Name Origin : Richard Burke, sixth Earl of Mayo; born 1822, died 1872. After having been Chief Secretary for Ireland three times, he succeeded Lord Lawrence as viceroy of India in 1868. Four years later he was murdered by a Punjab fanatic in the penal settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. |
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| Name Origin: The two Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Federal states of the empire. |
| Medusa
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| Name Origin: In Greek mythology the mortal sister of the two immortal gorgons, female monsters who dwelt at the westernmost end of the world. They had live serpents in place of hair on their heads, and whoever looked upon them was turned to stone. Medusa was transformed into their likeness by the wrath of Artemis (Diana). She was slain by Perseus, who to avoid her deadly gaze, watched her reflection in his shield. Even after death her head retained its petrifying power and was carried by Pallass (Minerva) in her aegis, mantle of war. |
Name Origin: Medusa, in Greek mythology the mortal sister of the two immortal Gorgons, female monsters who dwelt at the westernmost end of the world. They had live serpents instead of hair on their heads, and whoever looked upon them was turned into stone. Medusa was transformed into their likeness by the wrath of Artemis (Diana). She was slain by Perseus, who to avoid her deadly gaze, watched her reflection in his shield. Even after death her head retained its petrifying power, and was carried by Pallas (Minerva) in her aegis, mantle of war. |
| Name Origin: Mercurius, the Roman god of commerce. The Roman later identified him with the Greek Hermes. |
| Name Origin: Prince of enchanters. He was the son of the damsel seduced by a friend, but blaise baptized the infant and so rescued it from the power of Satan. He died spell bound by his mistress Vivian, in a hawthorn bush. |
| Name Origin: A mythical being, half human, half fish, about which, under various names, most countries possess romantic tales. The enchanting sirens of classical mythology were similar in conception. In the middle Ages the existence of mermaids was firmly believed in, and it is chronicled that such a one, having head, arms, and body to the waist of a beautiful women, ending in the tail of a fish which fins and scales, was captured at Edam in Holland in 1403, and taken to Haarlem, where it lived in confinement many years. |
Name Origin: The Latin name for the river Merwede. |
Name Origin: Messenger. |
Name Origin: - “Month of harvest.” The tenth month of the New Calendar instituted by the First French Republic on September 22nd 1792, and which continued in use until Napoleon reintroduced the Gregorian Calendar on January 1st 1806. |
| Meteor
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Name Origin: - Tributary of the river Moselle. |
Name Origin: Captain of a fire ship, which destroyed the British ship Royal Oak during De Ruyter’s attack in the Medway June 12th 1667. |
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Name Origin: Captain of the 5th Regiment of the Line, killed during the war with turkey at the attack on Grivitza, august 30th 1877. |
Name Origin: Naval officer, who on April 22nd 1709, during an action in which his captain fell, succeeded to the command of the frigate d’Oranje Gala, best off the attack of four Dunkirk privateers, and recaptured four merchant vessels. |
| Name Origin: the crescent moon. |
| Name Origin: A mountain in the province of Yamato, close to the shrine of Kasuga. |
| Name Origin: A political name for June, the sixth month. |
Name Origin: One of the twenty United States, famous for its mines; Ouro Petro is its capital. |
Name Origin: Miner. |
| Name Origin: In roman mythology a goddess worshipped with Jupiter and Juno as guardian deities of Rome. She was considered the protector of arts and trades. The Romans later identified her with the Greek “Pallas Athene.” |
Name Origin: Roman goddess of wisdom and industry. The Romans later identified her with the Greek Pallas Athene. |
Name Origin: Kosman Minin was a butcher of Nijni Novgorod who incited the citizens to collect arms and money to expel the Poles from Moscow, where their Prince Ladislaus had been proclaimed Tsar by a fraction of the Russian nobility during the troubles succeeding the extinction of the royal House of Rurik. He became treasurer of the patriotic party, and assisted Prince Pojarski in delivering Russia from the Polish invaders in 1612. |
Name Origin: Born at Santiago in 1775, he emigrated to Mendoza and in 1813 acted as Secretary to General San Martin, then organising the allied revolted armies. He later became Minister of War and Marine in the new Republic, displaying great organising powers. In the campaign of 1817-8 he fought at Maipo and Concha-Rayada. His signature was attached to the document, which proclaimed the Independence of Chile. He also designed the national flag (ensign). |
| Name Origin: In Greek mythology a semi-human monster with the head of a bull, kept by King Minos of Crete in a labyrinth. The Athenian youths and maidens regularly sent as a tribute to Minos were devoured by the Minotaur, until the hero Theseus, with the assistance of Ariadne, the King’s daughter, slew him. The myth arose probably from the worship of Baal-Moloch by the Phoenician settlers of Crete. |
Name Origin: In Greek mythology a semi-human monster with the head of a bull, kept by King Minos of Crete in a labyrinth. The Athenian youths and maidens regularly sent as the Minotaur, the King’s daughter, devoured a tribute to Minos slew him. This myth arose probably from the worship of Baal-Moloch by the Phoencian settlers of Crete. |
Name Origin : (1) Sir Gilbert Elliot, first Earl of Minto. From 1795 to 1797 he acted as Viceroy of Corsica, being raised to the Peerage in the latter year as Baron Minto. After having been President of the board of Control of India in 1806, he was appointed Governor General of Bengal the following year. On his retirement in 1813, he was created Earl of Minto and Viscount Melgund. He died the following year. (2) Gilbert John Elliot, fourthEarl of Minto, born 1845. Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904; Viceroy of India since 1905. |
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| Name Origin: The star o Ceti |
Name Origin: - Honore Gabriel Victor Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, born 1749, died 1791, was the son of the highly gifted political economist, Marquis de Mirabeau, and the most prominent figure in the early stages of the French Revolution. After a very stormy and dissolute youth, he found himself on the verge of ruin, and began to earn his living by his pen. His able pamphlets on the political and social abuses of his time made his name widely known. In 1798 he represented the town of Aix in the Assembly of notables, and soon became the acknowledged leader and spokesman of the popular party. He fought against the old and rotten system of despotic government, and for a constitutional monarchy in its place. An indefatigable writer, a brilliant orator, and a fearless debater, he attempted the impossible task of restraining the popular movement within reasonable limits, and reconciling the monarchy with the new orders of things. Distrusted by the Sovereign from whom he accepted pecuniary aid, suspected by many of his colleagues, whom rumours of the transaction had reached, he was still in the zenith of his power and popularity when death overtook him. |
Name Origin: The name of a picturesque castle on the sea near Triest, the residence of the late Emperor Maximilian of Mexico whilst serving in the American Navy as archduke Ferdiand Max. The name is derived from an old convent on the island of Majorca. |
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Name Origin: Mircea, Prince of Mantania, reigned from 1386 to 1418. He fought the Turks victoriously, and greatly enlarged his territory, so that he adopted the title of Lord of both banks of the Danube to the black Sea, Prince of the Dobrudja, of Silistria, and of lands up to Adrianople. |
Name Origin: Cape on the northern extremity of the Gulf of Naples; it was said to derive its name from Misenus, the trumpeter of Aeneas, who was drowned off it. |
| Name Origin: A small island in the Korean Strait. This vessel was formerly the Russian coast defence ship Admiral Seniavine, captured after the battle of the Japan Sea May 1905. |
Name Origin : Name of an Argentine territory. |
Name Origin: Name of a territory, which ha long been the object of rival claims by Brazil and the Argentine Republic, and which was awarded to Brazil by President Cleveland, U.S.A., on February 5th 1895, acting as arbitrator. |
Name Origin: - The north wind of the Gulf of Lyons. |
Name Origin: - Grapeshot. |
Mjolner
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| Name Origin: In Norse mythology the name of the god Thor’s magic hammer, which he flings at his enemies, and which, after crushing them, returns of its self to his hand. |
| Mode
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| Name Origin: In Norse mythology a son of Thor. He personifies promptness and courage. |
| Name Origin: A river (150 miles long) in Ugo province chiefly notable for the rapidity of its flow, it being one of the swiftest streams in Japan. |
| Name Origin: One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Iroquois confederation of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk’s River and the shores of Lake Ontario. |
Name Origin: Brave. |
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| Name Origin: Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke, born 1800, died 1891, the celebrated strategist. A Dane by birth, he began his military career in the Danish Army, but soon after entered Prussian service in 1822. In consequence of a journey through Turkey in 1835, he was permitted to act as advisor to the Sultan in his military reforms, and to take part in the Turkish campaigns against the Kurds and Mehemet Ali of Egypt 1838-1840. In 1858 he became chief of the Prussian general Staff, and continued in this capacity until his death. During this long period he directed with signal success the wars of 1864, 1866, and 1870-1871. He was the author of various military works. |
| Name Origin: The ancient Epidaurus Limera, a town built in an island close to the shore of the gulf of Korone or Kalamata. During the War of Independence the Greek fleet, captured the Turkish fortress here after a protracted siege, on August 3rd 1822. |
Name Origin: Inhabitant of Mongolia. |
| Name Origin: A maritime county of England, bordering in South Wales. |
Name Origin: - Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint Veran; born 1712, died 1759. Entering the Army, he distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession and in 1756 was sent to Canada as Commander in Chief of the French forces. In spite of the difficulties a badly organised Colonial Government involved him in, he succeeded in delaying the British advance for nearly four years. He captured and destroyed Forts Chuaguen (Oswego) and William Henry, and repulsed the British attack on Carillon. Unsupported from home by either men or stores, he vainly attempted to defend Quebec against General Wolfe. He was mortally wounded in the battle of the Plains of Abraham, which decided the fate of the city and in which his victorious opponent also fell. |
Name Origin : Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint Veran; born 1712, died 1759. Entering the Army, he distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession, and in 1756 was sent to Canada as Commander in chief of the French forces. In spite of the difficulties a badly organised Colonial Government involved him in, he succeeded in delaying the British advance for nearly four years. He captured and destroyed First Chuaguen (Oswego) and William Henry, and repulsed the Britisyh attack on Carillon. Unsupported from home either by men or stores, he vainly attempted to defend Quebec against General Wolfe. He was mortally wounded in the battle of the Plains of Abraham, which decided the fate of the city and in which his victorious opponent also fell. |
Name Origin: Parish in the province of Pavia. Here on June 9th 1800, the French under General Lannes defeated the Austrians, for which victory Napoleon created him Duke of Montebello; and here on March 20th 1859, the allied French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians. |
Name Origin: - Walrus. |
Name Origin: - Mortar. |
Name Origin: The Latin name of the river Meuse or Maas. |
Name Origin: Inhabitant of Moscow. |
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Name Origin: Mighty. |
Name Origin: - Gull. |
Name Origin: - Musket. |
Name Origin: - Musketeer. |
Name Origin: - Musketoon, cavalry musket, being lighter and shorter than the infantry musket. |
Name Origin: Seagull |
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| Name Origin: Sea-mew. |
| Name Origin: An Irish river, flowing through Counties Sligo and Mayo into Killala Bay. |
| Mucke
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| Name Origin: Gnat. |
| Munchen
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| Name Origin: Munich- the capital of the kingdom of Bavaria. |
| Name Origin: Cloud clusters. |
| Name Origin: Literally, “Village rain,” sudden scattered showers. |
Name Origin : Captain Murature commanded an Argentine ship at the battle of Cuevas, August 6th 1865, in the war with Paraguay. This battle was a noteworthy action of the combined Brazilian and Argentine forces. The Paraguayans had erected a powerful battery at a sharp bend of the river Paraguay. The Brazilian fleet made a run past, whilst Murature anchored abreast the fort and silenced the enemy's guns. |
| Name Origin: The province in which Tokyo, the capital is situated. |
Name Origin: - Stubborn, headstrong. |
| Name Origin: French for “headstrong, stubborn” Commemorates the capture of two small French vessels of that name, a 14-gun cutter in 1778 and a 14-gun corvette in 1797, both of which were taken into the Royal Navy. |
Name Origin: Just. |
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| Name Origin: Mosquito. |
| Name Origin: The Myrmidons were a people of Thessaly, who followed Achilles to the siege of Troy and who were distinguished for their savage brutality, rude behaviour, and thirst for rapine. |
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