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2 unusual facts about Galley


Battle of Sluys

Galleys had been used by the Mediterranean powers and were adopted for trade and combat by the French.

Howard Lang

In an early seafaring role, he had a cameo in Ben-Hur as the hortator aboard a Roman galley leading up to the epic battle with an enemy fleet.


1706 in piracy

They are led by Lieutenant Colonel William Rhett who sail out to meet the Spanish fleet, four warships and a galley, and chases them from the area.

Archias of Pella

Archias was despatched with a galley of 30 oars, and reached the island of Tylos (Bahrain group).

Argo

Tim Severin commissioned the recreation of a Bronze Age galley, and in 1984 retraced the voyage of Jason.

Battle of Andros

Contarini, with 22 sailing ships, left Porto Poro on 28 July and arrived at Port Gavrion, on the west coast of Andros, on 3 August, while a galley force, under Molino, went to Kekhrios, on mainland Greece, ready for an attack on Thebes.

Battle of Storkyro

The parallel successes of the Russian galley fleet in the Turku archipelago allowed the it fleet to support and supply the army's land operations.

Bridgewater House, Westminster

It was famous, in both incarnations, as the site of the Stafford Galley (in Cleveland House) and Bridgewater Gallery (in Bridgewater House), where the collections of paintings of the Duke of Bridgewater and his nephew and heir George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (whose second son Ellesmere was) were on at least semi-public display.

Camões family

Aires Peres de Camões, following the party of King John I of Portugal, was a Captain of a galley of the fleet that left from Porto against the coast of Galicia, from where the General was the Count de Trastamara.

Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick

Purchased by the Florida Railroad Museum in 1983, it has 2 bedrooms, 2 compartments and a lounge plus a galley.

Chen Xiwo

In June 2007, the Fuzhou office of China Customs intercepted the galley proof of author Chen Xiwo's book, which had been mailed to him by his Taiwanese publisher.

Computer Literacy Bookshops

The store not only sold books and periodicals but displayed galley pre-prints for skimming and editing, held author and guest engineer speaking events such as Gene Amdahl or Donald Knuth.

Demetrios Laskaris Leontares

Leontares, at the head of a group of Byzantine aristocrats and officials and supplied with gifts, met Mehmed at the Constantinopolitan suburb of Koutoulos (probably modern Kurtuluş) and escorted him to Diplokionion (modern Beşiktaş), where the Emperor and his sons awaited in their galley.

Dining car

In the dining cars of Amtrak's modern bilevel Superliner trains, booth seating on either side of a center aisle occupies almost the entire upper level, while the galley is below; food is sent to the upper level on a dumbwaiter.

Douglas Darby

He trained at Portsmouth Teachers College before taking a job as steward and galley hand on a P&O liner bound for Australia.

Emily Rigl

Her roles included performances in Humpty Dumpty (1868), What Should She Do? (1874, for Daly), The Big Bonanza (1875), Saratoga (1875), Pique (1875, with Maurice Barrymore), The Galley Slave (1879), Mr. Barnes of New York (1888), Devil's Island (1898), and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1901 production).

Galley division

Lam Lay Yong, mathematics professor of National University of Singapore traced the origin of Galley method of division to Sunzi Mathematical Classis written about 400AD.

Henry Drummond Wolff

In 1870 presented the Bournemouth Rowing Club with a four oared racing galley.

Ian Serraillier

The "Papers of Ian Serraillier", held at the University of Reading, largely comprise manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs, including Fight for Freedom, The Clashing Rocks, The Cave of Death, Havelock the Dane, They Raced for Treasure, Flight to Adventure and The Silver Sword.

Ivan Botsis

After his arrival in Russia in 1703, Botsis was appointed as shautbenaht (a Dutch title equivalent to Counter Admiral) and head of the galley squadrons of the newly established Baltic Fleet, based at Saint Petersburg and the fortress of Kronstadt.

Judicial system of post-Napoleonic France

In Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables, Jean Valjean receives a sentence of five years hard work in the galleys for the small crime of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's children.

Khokarsa

The Khokarsans had a written syllabary, understood the principles of algebra, employed catapults and Greek fire, had an advanced navy of unireme, bireme, and trireme galleys, implemented a solar calendar, and established a samurai-like class of swordsmen called the numatenu who wielded iron broadswords.

Liburnians

The Liburnians were renowned seafarers, notorious for their raids in the Adriatic Sea, which they conducted in their swift galleys.

Mel Galley

On February 7, 2008 Galley revealed that he was suffering from esophagus cancer, and had only a short time to live.

Nine Black Alps

The band consists of Sam Forrest (vocals, guitar), David Jones (guitar), James Galley (drums) and Karl Astbury (bass).

Roy Galley

Roy Galley (born 8 December 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Halifax in the 1983 general election, defeating the sitting Labour MP Dr Shirley Summerskill.

Ship commissioning

The engineering plant, weapon and electronic systems, galley, and multitudinous other equipment required to transform the new hull into an operating and habitable warship are installed and tested.

SS Empire Morn

Empire Morn is known for the death of the second youngest person in the British services to die in the war, 14-year old galley boy Raymond Steed.

Tempest 23

Tempest 23 came standard with eight foot (8') Self-bailing cockpit, self-draining seats with storage, molded insulated ice box,Philippine mahogany trim, deck stepped mast, main roller reefing, full width mainsheet traveler, wirehalyards, two jib winches, separate galley and head enclosures, two (2) 6'6" berths with storage, and a 2 year warranty.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

An RAF Air Sea Rescue launch is deployed to the search, struggling against bad weather, mechanical problems and a fire in the galley.

Thomas Cocklyn

On April 1, 1719, Cocklyn was a participant in the capture of the West African-bound English slave ship the Bird Galley at the mouth of the Sierra Leone River.

Westover and Bournemouth Rowing Club

Sir Henry Drummond Wolff who was then the Parliamentary candidate for Christchurch and Bournemouth presented the club with a four oared racing galley called the Lothair, which was the title of a novel by the Earl of Beaconsfield.


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