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Angliers

Angliers, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department of France


AAST

Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, a maritime academy that has its main campus located in Alexandria, Egypt

Abdul Razak Bin Haji Mohd Yusof

# Counter Maritime Interdiction Course, organized by the Naval Special Warfare - 1st Unit, United States Navy SEALS,

André Chevrillon

Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris.

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) of Poole, Dorset, England is a British company established in 2008.

Australian Sailing Museum

It has maritime artworks, lifelike wax figures of sailing icons (a saluting Dennis Conner, John Cox Stevens, Sir Thomas Lipton & more), while the main exhibition area is circled with pennants from clubs around the world.

Battle of Valmont

The Battle of Valmont is the name given to two connected actions which took place between 9 and 11 March 1416 in the area of the towns of Valmont and Harfleur in Normandy.

Bryza

PZL M28B Bryza - a Polish STOL light maritime patrol, cargo and passenger plane

Coat of arms

-- Systemic bias/biased perspective --> An example in recent use is the logo of Mitsubishi corporation which started as a shipping and maritime enterprise and whose emblem is based on a water chestnut derived from its maritime history with a military naval influence.

Conway Publishing

Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway have broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modeling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.

D. M. Schurman

'Introduction' by John Hattendorf and D. M. Schurman' in Julian S. Corbett, Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05.

Disabled Motoring UK

On the 4th of June 2011 the trike set off from Greenwich and headed south to Newhaven, cross the Channel to Dieppe and followed the original route.

Discoveries

Portuguese discoveries, Intensive maritime exploration by the Portuguese during the 15th and 16th centuries

Durdent

Le Mesnil-Durdent, a commune in the Seine-Maritime département, France

Edmund Mortimer McDonald

In 1863, he founded the Halifax Citizen with William Garvie; the paper favoured a maritime union but opposed Confederation.

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT) is an American maritime landing force that is spread across the Atlantic Ocean and reports to the United States Atlantic Command.

Georges Diebolt

He treated with equal eclecticism religious subjects such as Saint John the Evangelist (placed on the first story of the tower of Saint-Jacques in Paris during its 1852 restoration) and modern themes, such as the 1854 Maritime Victory on the pont d'Austerlitz.

Giacinto Auriti

He graduated in Rome, where he taught maritime, international, private and comparative law.

Gocha Vetriakov

A native of Tbilisi and of Russian ethnic descent, Gocha Vetriakov graduated from the Vladivostok maritime college in Russia and then joined the ranks of the Coast Guard of Georgia.

Guillaume de Felice

He became a pastor at the Reformed Church of Bolbec, in Normandy Seine-Maritime, then a professor of theology in Montauban, occupying the chair 'de morale et d'éloquence sacrée' (of morality and holy speech).

Helier

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in Rennes, St. Hellier, Beuzeville (Eure), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou (Sarthe).

Hervey Benham

His daughter, Jane Benham, played a significant role in the maritime educational East Coast Sail Trust, in which Hervey was also involved, and in the preservation of Thames sailing barges.

Human rights in Finland

Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the Netherlands had applied to the UN's Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which resolves maritime disputes between states.

International Christian Maritime Association

The International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) is an ecumenical association of 28 Christian organisations, representing different churches and Christian communities.

Inveraray

The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.

Isla Aves

During a visit to Venezuela, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in June 2006, stated that Aves Island belongs to Venezuela, ending the territorial claim but not a maritime claim.

Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency

In addition to its railway construction projects, JRTT has also sponsored maritime research, including the latest ship used as the JR Miyajima Ferry.

MCL Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training

April 10, 2008 marked a momentous event for Malayan Colleges Laguna, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mapua Institute of Technology, and Philippine Transmarine Carriers, Inc., one of the country’s largest crew management companies, as they launched the Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training.

Michel Lafourcade

Educated at the high school Pierre Loti of Rochefort, then graduated from the school of meteorology of Saint-Cyr-l'École.

Mount Chōkai

Three ships have been named after Mount Chōkai: Chōkai, an early steam gunboat, and the cruiser Chōkai (sunk in 1944), which were both in the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the JDS Chōkai, a Kongō class guided missile destroyer currently in service in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

MV Cape Pine

Cape Pine is still afloat, having been sold to the Maritime Heritage Society in Vancouver, and is in operation as a private pleasure boat and charter boat out of Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada.

Naming of military air bases

However, in maintaining the maritime link, all Royal Navy air stations are additionally named in the same manner as the Navy's ships - in Yeoviltons' instance, it is also called HMS Heron.

Netherlands Marine Corps

The Seabased Support Group (SSG) fields 98 men and coordinates maritime operational logistic support for Marine units embarked on one the Rotterdam-class amphibious transport docks.

Northwest Seaport

The Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Puget Sound and Northwest Coast maritime heritage, expressed through educational programs and experiences available to the public.

Notow

Dutch maritime maps from the last part of the 16th and the 17th century also locate Notow at Avaldsnes.

Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network

In a hypothesis developed by Wilhelm Solheim, the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network (NMTCN) is a trade and communication network that first appeared in the Asia-Pacific region during its Neolithic age, or beginning roughly around 5000 BC.

Ophrys lutea

Widely distributed in the Mediterranean area and in Atlantic regions of southern Europe, as far as the Charente in the north-west.

Penly Nuclear Power Plant

It lies on the border of two French municipalities: Penly and Saint-Martin-en-Campagne in the département of Seine-Maritime, Normandy, on the English Channel coast.

Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".

Pierrecourt

Pierrecourt, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the French region of Haute-Normandie

Piper guineense

Though known in Europe during the Middle Ages (it was a common spice in Rouen and Dieppe in 14th Century France), these days, its use is marginalized to West and Central Africa.

Point Lynas Lighthouse

The Lighthouse is considered to be important for its association with Jesse Hartley, the engineer responsible for the world's first great floating-dock system at Liverpool

Pont de Brotonne

Its construction was financed by the General council of Seine-Maritime for the purpose of opening up the Pays de Caux and assuring a connection between the commune of Yvetot and the A13 autoroute by way of the forêt de Brotonne (Brotonne forest), from which the bridge gets its name.

Rauma, Finland

Granted town privileges on May 17, 1442 (then under the rule of Sweden), Rauma is known for its paper and maritime industry, high quality lace (since the 18th century) and the old wooden architecture of its centre (Old Rauma, Vanha Rauma), which is a Unesco world heritage site.

Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II

:Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes - Used seven F406s for maritime patrol activities.

Richard Olivier de Longueil

Richard Olivier de Longueil was born in Lisieux on December 18, 1406, the son of Guillaume III de Longueil, sieur of Eu, and his second wife, Catherine de Bourguenole.

Richborough Castle

Standing as it did between the port and the province, passage through the arch signified formal entry into Britannia (cf the similarly maritime arch at Ancona).

SS City of Launceston

Since 1997 she has been the subject of archaeological studies under the direction of Heritage Victoria's Maritime Heritage Unit.

SS George Calvert

American Mariner, Maritime Commission hull number 20, launched in 1941 as SS George Calvert, but renamed almost immediately.

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Two Annual General Meetings (2012 and 2013) of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) have endorsed RMT support for TUSC candidates and the RMT is formally represented on the TUSC steering committee.

Ulane Bonnel

Following their marriage, Bonnel went to France with her husband, who had a distinguished career in the French Navy, rising to be chief of the maritime health service (chef du service santé des gens de mer) in 1969-72 and an internationally recognized biologist associated with the World Health Organization.


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