Puerto Cabello ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto kaˈβeʝo] ) is a city on the north coast of Venezuela . It is located in Carabobo State , about 210 km west of Caracas . As of 2011, the city had a population of around 182,400. The city is home to the largest and busiest port in the country and is thus a vital cog in the country's vast oil industry. The word 'cabello' translates to 'hair'. The Spanish took to saying that the sea was so calm there that a ship could be moored to the dock with a single hair.
23-414: Mings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christopher Myngs (1625–1666), English naval officer and privateer Tyrone Mings (born 1993), English footballer See also [ edit ] Ming (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Mings . If an internal link intending to refer to
46-742: A commerce raider during the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) . During this period Myngs acquired a reputation for unnecessary cruelty, sacking several Spanish colonial towns while in command of whole fleets of buccaneers . In 1658, after beating off a Spanish naval attack, he raided Spanish colonies around the coast of South America ; failing to capture a treasure fleet , he destroyed the colonial settlements in Tolú and Santa Marta in New Grenada instead; in 1659 he plundered Cumaná , Puerto Cabello and Coro (all in present-day Venezuela) where
69-585: A hot semi-arid climate ( BSh ) as prevails further west on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. Puerto Cabello is served by a station on the Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado network. Despite the Puerto Cabello's once bustling port, port traffic disappeared when the price of oil collapsed, which affected the country that was dependent on imports paid for with the high price of oil. As part of
92-524: A large haul of silver in twenty chests were seized. The Spanish government , upon hearing of Myngs' actions, protested to no avail to the English government of Oliver Cromwell on his conduct. Because he had shared half of the bounty of his 1659 raid, about a quarter of a million pounds, with the buccaneers against the explicit orders of Edward D'Oyley , the English Commander of Jamaica, he
115-502: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mings&oldid=1033994529 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Christopher Myngs Vice Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs (sometimes spelled Mings , 1625–1666)
138-532: Is probable that he saw a good deal of sea-service before 1648. He first appears prominently as the captain of the Elisabeth , which after it had undergone action during the First Anglo-Dutch War brought in a Dutch convoy with two men-of-war as prizes. From 1653 to 1655 he continued to command the Elisabeth , when he was high in favour with the council of state and recommended for promotion by
161-545: The Spanish dominion of the area . In 1662 Myngs decided that the best way to accomplish this was to employ the full potential of the buccaneers by promising them the opportunity for unbridled plunder. He had the complete support of the new governor, Lord Windsor , who fired a large contingent of soldiers to fill Myngs's ranks with disgruntled men. That year he attacked Santiago de Cuba in Spanish Cuba and took and sacked
184-501: The Venezuelan crisis , many of the poorer citizens in "shantytowns" in Puerto Cabello now struggle for food. Citizens wait in long lines to buy government-mandated priced groceries and the currency (bolivar) experienced nearly 64% depreciation as of May, 2017. As of August 2017, the depreciation percentage was as much as 94%. The UCOCAR shipyards are in Puerto Cabello and have been awarded contracts to construct patrol vessels for
207-626: The Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03 and according to press reports was left in ruins. In 1962, Puerto Cabello was the site of an uprising, known as El Porteñazo , by pro- Fidel Castro naval officers, marines, and members of the FALN . Although loyalist naval forces were able to quickly take back the base and arrest the rebels, they were unable to prevent the marines from occupying the city and arming pro-Castro forces. Despite ambushes and bloody house-to-house fighting, loyal National Guard and mechanized regular forces were able to retake Puerto Cabello. With
230-511: The Blue and after the disgrace of Montagu, he served under the next supreme fleet commander, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle . He was on detachment with Prince Rupert's Green squadron, when on 11 June 1666 the great Four Days' Battle began, but returned to the main fleet in time to take part on the final day, and in this action when his flotilla was surrounded by that of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde he received wounds – being hit first through
253-656: The Spanish settlements at Puerto Cabello and La Guaira. The Spanish governor Gabriel de Zuluaga , well informed of the plans, recruited extra defenders and acquired gunpowder from the Dutch. Consequently, at an attack on La Guaira, on 18 February 1743, the English fleet was beaten off by the defenders. Knowles withdrew his force and refitted at Curaçao before attempting an assault on Puerto Cabello on April 15, and again on April 24, but both assaults were beaten back. Knowles called off
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#1732773246766276-576: The cheek and then in the left shoulder by musket balls fired by a sharpshooter when his Victory was challenged by De Liefde's flagship, the Ridderschap van Holland – of which he died shortly after returning to London . Attribution: Puerto Cabello The foundation date of Puerto Cabello is not known although its name was documented for the first time on the map of the province of Caracas prepared in 1578 by Juan de Pimentel. Puerto Cabello's location made it an easy prey to buccaneers and
299-648: The expedition and returned to Jamaica. By the 1770s, Puerto Cabello had come to be the most fortified town on the Venezuelan coast. The San Felipe castle and the Solano fortress remain from the period. The frigate Santa Cecilia (former HMS Hermione ), under the command of Captain Don Ramón de Chalas, sat in Puerto Cabello until Captain Edward Hamilton , aboard HMS Surprise , cut her out of
322-704: The flag officers under whom he served. In 1655, he was appointed to the frigate Marston Moor , the crew of which was on the verge of mutiny . His firm measures quelled their insubordinate spirits, and he took the vessel out to the West Indies , arriving in January 1656 in Jamaica where he became the subcommander of the naval flotilla on the Jamaica Station , until the summer of 1657. In February 1658, he returned to Jamaica as naval commander, acting as
345-570: The harbor. During the War of Jenkins' Ear , Puerto Cabello was the careening port of the company, whose ships had rendered great assistance to the Spanish navy in carrying troops, arms, stores and ammunition from Spain to her colonies, and its destruction was a severe blow to both the Company and the Spanish government. The commodore Charles Knowles in command of the 70-gun HMS Suffolk in 1743 received orders to carry out attacks of Royal Navy on
368-542: The harbour on October 25, 1799. The Spanish casualties included 120 dead; the British took 231 Spaniards prisoner, while another 15 jumped or fell overboard. Eleven of Hamilton's men were injured, four seriously, but none was killed. Hamilton himself was severely wounded. The forces of the First Republic of Venezuela briefly held San Felipe castle. In 1812 Simón Bolívar, then a colonel in the independentist forces,
391-747: The next year he was made Vice-Admiral in Prince Rupert 's squadron. As Vice-Admiral of the White under the Lord High Admiral James Stuart, Duke of York and Albany , he flew his flag during the Second Anglo-Dutch War at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, and for his reward, he received the honour of knighthood . In the same year he then served under Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich , as Vice-Admiral of
414-597: The ongoing crisis amid food shortages on 23 February 2019 that coupled with economic damage, the aid that was supposed to arrive at the port was turned away by the Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela , threatening to "open fire" at it, forcing the aid to redirect back to Puerto Rico . Puerto Cabello is located in Carabobo State , about 210 km west of Caracas . Puerto Cabello has a borderline tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ), almost dry enough to be
437-598: The town despite its strong defences. In 1663 buccaneers from all over the Caribbean joined him for the announced next expedition. Myngs directed the largest buccaneer fleet as yet assembled, 14 ships strong and with 1,400 buccaneers aboard, among them the privateers Henry Morgan and Abraham Blauvelt , where they went on to sack Campeche in February. During the attack on Campeche Bay, Myngs himself had been severely wounded leaving Edward Mansvelt in charge of his pirate army. In 1664 he returned to England to recover. Later
460-499: Was a popular trading post for Dutch smugglers during the 17th century. Most of the contraband trade consisted of cocoa with neighboring island Curaçao, colonized by the Dutch. Puerto Cabello was also at that time under Dutch control. It was not until 1730 that the Spanish took over the port, after the Real Compañía Guipuzcoana had moved in. This company built warehouses, wharves and an array of forts to protect
483-475: Was an English naval officer and privateer, most notably in the Colony of Jamaica . He came from a Norfolk family and was a relative of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell . Samuel Pepys ' story of Myngs' humble birth, in explanation of his popularity, has now been evaluated by historians as being mostly fictitious in nature. The date of Myngs's birth is uncertain, but is probably somewhere between 1620 and 1625. It
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#1732773246766506-400: Was appointed commandante of Puerto Cabello. He left after a royalist rebellion broke out. In 1821 the Spanish retreated to the castle after their defeat at the decisive Battle of Carabobo . Puerto Cabello was the last Spanish royalist stronghold during Venezuela's war for independence, it was captured by José Antonio Páez on November 8, 1823. The harbour came under Anglo-German attack in
529-634: Was arrested for embezzlement and sent back to England in the Marston Moor in 1660. The Restoration government retained him in his command however, and in August 1662 he was sent to Jamaica commanding the Centurion in order to resume his activities as commander of the Jamaica Station, despite the fact that the war with Spain had ended. This was part of a covert English policy to undermine
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